A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



mainly of cobbles, with some freestone rubble, and angle 

 dressings of cream-coloured and ferruginous sandstone. 



The east window of the chancel is of three cinque- 

 foiled lights with tracery over, with a two-centred 

 segmental head ; the two south windows are of the 

 same character but of two lights, the tracery in all 

 three being modern. The south doorway is all old 

 but the outer order and label ; it has a four-centred 

 arch with traceried spandrels in a square head. The 

 north window is partly blocked by the vestry, but 

 its traceried head is glazed and is similar to those 

 opposite. West of it is a modern doorway to the 

 vestry and an arch to the organ chamber. The 

 piscina in the south wall has been either recut or re- 

 newed. It has a continuous hollow chamfer and a 

 two-centred arch, with a label rounded above and 

 chamfered and hollowed below. 



The chancel arch has semi-octagonal jambs with 

 moulded bell capitals and bases, and the arch is of 

 two chamfered ordeis with a label. 



Sco.te 

 Plan of Langford Church 



The nave arcades are of four bays with octagonal 

 columns and moulded bases and bell capitals of a 

 slightly earlier character than those of the chancel 

 arch. The arches are of two chamfered orders with 

 simple labels, the stops to the labels taking the form 

 of heads, both human and otherwise. Corbels for 

 the rood-loft or beam remain in the eastern angles of 

 the nave, and south of the chancel arch is an image 

 bracket. There is a second bracket on the south- 

 west face of the first column of the north arcade, and a 

 third, quite plain, on the north-west face of the corre- 

 sponding column on the south. In the south-west 

 face of this column is a shallow niche i 5 in. high by 7 in. 

 wide, and there are traces of cutting away for screens 

 in the eastern bays on both sides. In the south face of 

 the second column of the north arcade is a rectangular 

 sinking 3 in. deep by 1 3 in. high and 8 in. wide. 



The west window of the nave is a fine specimen 

 with trefoiled ogee heads to the main lights and net 

 tracery. The east windows of both aisles are original, 

 each of three cinquefoiled lights with beautiful 

 geometric tracery ; that in the north aisle looks into 



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the organ chamber and has had the glazing removed, 

 the space being filled with the organ pipes. In the 

 south wall the first window from the east is like that 

 in the east wall ; the second has three trefoiled lights 

 with ogee heads and net tracery ; the other aisle 

 windows are of plainer description and of two lights, 

 the two eastern windows in the north wall of the 

 north aisle having leaf tracery in the heads, while the 

 rest have a simpler form of tracery with a flowing 

 quatrefoil. 



The north and south doorways of the nave have 

 continuous mouldings of two orders, the south, as 

 being the principal entrance, being a little more care- 

 fully treated. 



The outer doorway of the south porch has two 

 continuous outer orders, chamfered, and a moulded 

 inner order with shafts and capitals, the whole a 

 good deal patched. The porch and tower are in 

 a bad state of repair, the east and west windows 

 of the porch, each of two lights, being much de- 

 cayed, while in the 

 upper part of the 

 tower, which is of two 

 stages only, the belfry 

 windows are very di- 

 lapidated, without luf- 

 fers or other protec- 

 tion from the weather. 

 That on the east is of 

 two lights ; the others 

 are single lights, all 

 of fourteenth-century 

 style, and the parapet 

 is plain and has lost 

 most of its coping- 

 stones. The wood- 

 work of the roofs is 

 modern, but across the 

 chancel arch is a good 

 fifteenth-century 

 screen, the tracery in 

 the head of which has 

 been much repaired. 

 In the nave are some 

 fifteenth or sixteenth- 

 century oak benches 

 with panelled and buttressed ends, while the chancel 

 seats and pulpit are modern and good of their 

 kind. 



On the chancel arch is a painted cheveron pattern 

 in red, old work retouched, and in the north window 

 of the chancel are a few fifteenth-century quarries 

 with various devices ; elsewhere in the church a little 

 old glass is to be seen. 



The font appears to be of the fourteenth century, 

 but has been cleaned in modern times ; it has a 

 square bowl on an octagonal central shaft and four 

 round angle shafts with moulded capitals and bases, 

 and is set on a modern plinth. 



There is a small brass in the chancel to Thomas 

 Hundon, vicar, who died in 1528. 



There are three bells ; the first cast by C. and 

 G. Mears in 1855, the second by Edward Arnold 

 of St. Neots, 1780, and the third by Joseph Eayre 

 1772. " ' ' 



The plate is modern, and includes a silver chalice 

 paten and flagon. ' 



The registers are complete from 171 7. 



