A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



1 700 leaving no male issue. '^ The mansion-house, 

 which was known as the Hall, came into the posses- 

 sion of the Rev. Francis Stanley, who appears to have 

 been holding it in lyzs.*^ He rebuilt the house in 

 1745. On his death in 1775 it was purchased of 

 his executors by Robert Vigne of London, merchant, 

 from whom it passed to George Palmer of Nazeing, 

 CO. Essex. It descended to his son Col. George 

 Palmer, who sold it in 1866 to the Rev. Francis 

 Bacon,** and it is now owned by Mr. Henry Bacon, 

 J.P. 



At the beginning of the i6th century there was a 

 so-called manor of DELAMERE in Much Hadham, 

 of which few records remain. This was purchased 

 by Thomas Ostrich, merchant, of London,** who by 

 hit will of 1484 bequeathed torches to the church of 

 Much Hadham, and left all his ' leveled ' in Hadham 

 to his wife Anne for life, vnth remainder to their son 

 Thomas.** After his father's death Thomas brought 

 a suit in Chancery against his mother in order to 



of the north aisle is faced with a chequer of flint 

 and stone in 6-in. squares ; the main roofs are slated 

 and the aisle roofs covered with lead. 



The chancel is the earliest portion of the existing 

 building and was erected about 1220 ; an earlier 

 nave and chancel probably existed, but no detail 

 of these remains. The chancel arch is also of about 

 1220, but it was subsequently widened, probably in 

 the 15th century About the middle of the 13th 

 century a south aisle of three bays was added, pro- 

 bably representing the full length of the original 

 nave. Later in the 1 3th century the nave and south 

 aisle were lengthened two bays westward, and towards 

 the close of the century a north chapel was thrown 

 out from the east end of the nave, and about the 

 middle of the 14th century the north aisle was formed 

 by extending the chapel four bays westward. Windows 

 were also inserted in the south aisle during the 14th 

 century, and probably also a south doorway, which 

 was subsequently transferred to the north side of the 



Scale of Feet 



Plan op Much Hadham Church 



recover the deeds of settlement of the lands in 

 Hadham which were described as the manor of 

 Delamere.*' 



The lands with which the church was endowed 

 formed the RECTORT MANOR of Much Hadham.** 

 The church of Sr. ^NDREPT siand- 

 CHURCH ing on the west side of the small River Ash 

 consists of chancel 34 ft. by zi ft. 6 in., 

 nave 73 ft. by 22 ft. 6 in., north aisle I 5 ft. vride and 

 south aisle 12 ft. wide, south porch 13ft. by 10 ft., 

 west tower 1 4 ft. square, vestry on the north side of 

 the chancel 1 1 ft. by 8 ft. 6 in. and modem organ 

 chamber adjoining ; all internal dimensions. The 

 walls are of flint rubble with clunch dressings ; the 

 tower is covered with cement ; part of the west end 



chancel as an entrance to the vestry. The west 

 tower was built about 1400 by Robert Braybrook, 

 Bishop of London, whose arms are carved over the 

 west doorway. In the I 5 th century the walls of the 

 chancel and nave were raised and new roofs put on 

 and the nave clearstory formed ; the north vestry 

 was built, the rood-stair was formed, the south porch 

 was erected and a new south door inserted, the older 

 one, with its excellent 1 3th-century hinges, being 

 probably removed then to the chancel. A number 

 of vnndows were also inserted during this period. In 

 the 1 9th century the church was thoroughly restored 

 and much of the stonework renewed, and in 1908 a 

 large organ chamber was erected on the north side 

 of the chancel. 



" Channcy, op. cit. 161. 

 «> See Sat. R. (Hem. Co. Rec), ii, 60. 

 *^ Cuisaas, op. cit Edvinstree Hurui, 

 17a. 

 ** Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 152, no. 56. 



« P.aC Will, 21 Logge; cf. Early 

 Chan. Proc bdle. 152, no. 56, where the 

 wife's name is given ai Amy. 



^ Early Chan. Proc bdles. 1 52, no. 56 ; 

 217, no. 18. 



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" Newcourt, Referanum, i, 819 ; 

 Chauncy, op. cit. 160; Cluttcrbuck, 

 op. cit. iii, 399 ; Cuiiant, op. cit. EJiuint- 

 Crce HunJ, 176. 



