CLIFTON HUNDRED 



CAMPTON 



GifFard, worth 3/. 3,/." It continued to belong to 

 the manor, and Warine de Lisle in 1296 died seised 

 of a water-mill,'" but the mill probably fell into disuse 

 as there is no later mention of it. 



The church of ALL SAINTS, 

 CHURCHES CAMPTON, has a chancel 25 ft. by 

 1 6 ft. 7 in., with a north chapel and 

 south organ chamber, nave 50 ft. by 18 ft. 4 in., with 

 north aisle 1 2 ft. wide, south aisle i o ft. 2 in. wide, 

 and south porch, and south-west tower occupying the 

 western bay of the south aisle. 



Its development from the thirteenth century is 

 clear, but no evidence of earlier work remains. The 

 south arcade is of late thirteenth-century date, and 

 the nave at this time was of its present dimensions, 

 but had no north aisle. About 1320 the chancel 

 was enlarged on the south side, its new south wall 

 continuing the line of the south arcade of the nave, 

 but the old north wall was retained, thus throwing 

 the chancel out of centre with the nave. At the 

 same time the south aisle was remodelled, though 

 most of the work of this date has since been renewed. 

 The tower dates from the fifteenth century, the last 

 bay of the south arcade having been destroyed at its 

 building, an examination of the present west respond 

 of the arcade showing that it is part of a complete 

 pier now half absorbed in the north-east pier of the 

 tower. 



The north aisle and chapel (the Osborn chapel) 

 date from 1649, and of late years (1898) the church 

 has been extensively repaired, the tower being rebuilt 

 with the old material and the north aisle provided 

 with an entirely new set of windows. In the rest 

 of the church the old tracery has been replaced by 

 modern copies, except in the case of the east window 

 of the Osborn chapel. The organ chamber dates 

 from this repair. The chancel has an east window 

 of four lights of modern tracery, and has on either 

 side a cinquefoiled fourteenth-century recess for an 

 image. The south window, likewise of fourteenth- 

 century style, is of two trefoiled lights with a seg- 

 mental head. At the south-east angle is a fourteenth- 

 century piscina. The north wall has been almost ' 

 entirely removed, but at its west end is the jamb of 

 a transomed window of which the rest has been cut 

 away, the opening being now filled by an oak screen 

 with two tiers of balusters, the upper carrying semi- 

 circular arches, springing from Ionic capitals and 

 having moulded bases which rest on square dies orna- 

 mented with sunk carving. The whole is a very 

 attractive piece of mid-seventeenth-century design. 

 The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders dying 

 out at the springing, and over it is a small arched 

 opening looking into the roof of the chancel. 



In the Osborn chapel, now used as a vestry, are 

 several large monuments of the Osborn family. It 

 is lighted by a large east window of four uncusped 

 lights with rounded heads and a transom at half 

 height ; below the southern light is a square-headed 

 doorway. 



The north arcade of the nave is of four bays of 

 curious spiridess Gothic, but interesting from its date 

 (1649). The pillars are octagonal with moulded 

 capitals and bases, low-pitched four-centred arches 

 and plain responds with no shafts or capitals. No 

 features contemporary with this arcade are retained 

 in the aisle walls, modern Gothic windows having 



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been substituted for the wood-framed seventeenth- 

 century lights. 



The south arcade, now of three bays but formerly 

 of four, has pillars of quatrefoiled plan with a plain 

 respond at the east, the alternate pillars having rolls 

 in the angles. The moulded capitals follow the plan 

 of the piers, and the arches are of two moulded 

 orders. 



The windows of the south aisle have flowmg 

 tracery copied from their early fourteenth-century 

 predecessors, the east window being of three lights, 

 and the others of two. At the east end of the aisle 

 is a fourteenth-century piscina and on the sill of the 

 east window a collection of carved details of thirteenth 

 and fourteenth-century date, some of which, together 

 with other like details in the walls of the north aisle, 

 may have come from Chicksands Priory. 



The west tower is of three stages and externally 

 entirely modern. It opens to the south aisle by an 

 arch of two chamfered orders, with half-round re- 

 sponds and moulded capitals, and on the north it 

 opens to the nave by a plain chamfered arch, whose 

 centre is to the north of the axis of the tower. 



The south porch is entirely modern, replacing one 

 of half timber, and has a holy-water stone to the east 

 of the doorway ornamented with roughly-executed 

 carvings which suggest rather the knife of the casual 

 loiterer than any intentional scheme of decoration. 



The roofs are modern throughout and covered 

 with red tiles, but the chancel screen is a pretty 

 piece of fifteenth-century work with moulded posts 

 and rails and pierced tracery in the heads of the 

 upper lights and of the solid lower panels. The 

 pulpit is square and apparently made up of wood- 

 work of much the same age as the screen, which 

 probably formed part of the parclose round one of 

 the nave altars. The names of some of the early 

 eighteenth-century bell-ringers are scratched on the 

 stones of the tower, the dates ranging between 1 702 

 and 1 707. The font near the north door is of white 

 marble and entirely modern. 



At the south-east angle of the nave the brass of 

 Richard Carlyll, 1489, and Joan his wife, is fixed on 

 a stone slab let into the wall. 



There are four bells, the treble by Richard Chandler, 

 1 700, the second and third by William Culverden of 

 London, c. 1520, inscribed 'Sancte Paule ora pro 

 nobis,' and ' Sancte Andree ora pro nobis,' and the 

 tenor, by Hugh Watts of Leicester, inscribed ' Praise 

 the Lord, 1603.' 



The plate given by Sir John Osborn in 1793 

 comprises a chalice, paten, a bread-holder and flagon, 

 all of Sheffield plate. 



The first book of the registers begins in 1568 and 

 the second in 1659. 



The church of ST. MICHAEL, SHEFFORD, 

 consists of a nave 5 3 ft. long by 1 8^ ft. wide, a south 

 aisle 63 ft. by 21 ft. divided from the nave by a line 

 of iron pillars, and a west tower 1 7 ft. wide by 7 ft. 

 2 in. deep. 



With the exception of the west tower the church 

 has been entirely rebuilt in modern times. 



The east windows of nave and aisle are of three 

 lights in thirteenth-century style ; the north wall of 

 the nave has four similar windows of two lights and 

 the south wall of the aisle five similar windows and a 

 three-light west window. The tower is of three 



8" Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, No. 114. 



