EDWINSTREE HUNDRED 



LITTLE HADHAM 



nave altars.'* The space left for each is about 6 ft. 

 The upper part of the screen is open and the heads 

 filled with elaborate but somewhat minute tracery, 

 each arch having similar tracery ; the cornice is 

 modern. The screen appears to be of early 16th- 

 century date. The octagonal pulpit is of oak with 

 sounding-board over and is dated 1633. The panels 

 are all richly carved with arabesques. The pulpit is a 

 ' three-decker,' but the lower inclosures are later in 

 date and plain. Round the walls of the north tran- 

 sept is oak panelling of about the same date as the 

 pulpit ; the upper panels are carved with arabesques. 

 Some similar panelling remains at the east end of the 

 nave. In the nave are some plain late 1 6th-century 

 seats. There are some remains of I Jth-century glass 

 in the church. In the north-west window of the 

 chancel are the arms of Robert Braybrook, Bishop of 



[1461-75]. On the jamb of the vestry door have 

 been fixed three brass strips said to have been 

 found under the floor some years ago ; the brass 

 strips are in a perfect state of preservation and have 

 apparently never been used, as there are blanks 

 in the dates. The inscription runs as follows : 

 ' cccclxxxiii et Margareta uxor eius que obiit die 

 mensis anno dfli millesimo cccc quorum anima- 

 bus propicietur deus amen.' The date is that of the 

 death of Ralph Baud, and his widow may have 

 intended it to be completed after her death, but this 

 was not carried out. A large slab, probably of 1 3 th- 

 century date, with traces of a marginal inscription, is 

 used as a paving stone in the south porch. Within 

 the communion rails are two slabs, one with inscrip- 

 tion to Arthur Lord Capell, who was executed in 

 1 649, and his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Charles 



Church Porch, Little Hadham 



London (1382-1404), seven voided lozenges, also 

 some fragments of lettering ; in the south-east window 

 of the nave are named figures of St. Lawrence and 

 Isaiah. Under the entrance of the chancel screen are 

 a few figured tiles probably of 1 4th-century date. 



On the south wall of the chancel is a brass with 

 figures of a man, his wife and four daughters ; it is of 

 early 1 5th-century date and may represent a member 

 of the Baud family, possibly Walter Baud, who died 

 at Hadham in 1420. It was removed from a slab 

 in the nave floor, which has indents of four shields. 

 On the south wall of the nave is a brass of a priest 

 in a cope, taken from a slab in the nave floor ; the 

 inscription is almost illegible,^' but it is to ' Syr 

 Richard Warriner, somtyme p'son of Corrynghm ' 



Morrison, d. 1 660 ; the other to Sir Henry Capell, 

 third son of the above, who died in 1696. 



There are five bells : the first by C. & G. Mears, 

 1855 ; the second by John Dyer, 1595 ; the third 

 inscribed ' Sancta Gabiel {sic) ora pro nobis,' pro- 

 bably of the 15th century; the fourth by Robert 

 Oldfeild, inscribed 'Praise the Lord, 1623'; the 

 fifth by Philip Wightman, 1693. 



The communion plate consists of two silver cups, 

 two silver patens and one plated flagon, all modern. 



The registers before 1 8 1 z are as follows ^^ : (i) bap- 

 tisms 1559 to 1695, burials and marriages 1560 to 

 1695 ; (ii) baptisms and burials 1695 to 1776, mar- 

 riages 1695 to 1753 ; (iii) baptisms and burials 1776 

 to 1812 ; (iv) marriages 1754 to 18 1 2. 



'* Thomas Baud, by his will proved 

 24 Not. 1449 (P.C.C. 18 Rous, p. 141}, 

 directed his body to be buried before the 

 image of St. Cecilia in Little Hadham 



Church ; he also bequeathed 61. id. to 

 ' the high altar there.' 



6S See W. Minet, F.S.A., ' Brasses in 



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Little Hadham Church,' The Home Cos. 

 Mag. vi, 98. 



'S These registers, ed. by W. Minet, 

 F.S.A., were printed in 1907. 



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