A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



heightened and new tracery windows inserted, and a 

 good number of the mural monuments have been 

 relegated to the new north vestry. 



The aisle roofs have been so much raised that the 

 clearstory windows are now below them, and look 

 into the aisles. The south porch is a modern 

 addition. 



The east window of the chancel is of three trefoiled 

 lights with tracery over, all being modern except the 

 jambs and sill, which date from the latter part of the 

 fifteenth century. Of the same date is the north-east 

 window, now blocked by the vestry, with two trefoiled 

 lights under a four-centred head. On the south side 

 of the chancel is a two-light window, all its tracery 

 being modern, and near the west end a wide modern 

 single light, cinquefoiled, which appears to replace a 

 larger window. Between these windows is a south 

 doorway with a four-centred head, in new stonework, 

 and at the south-east of the chancel is a piscina, of 

 which nothing but the mutilated bowl is old. 



On the north of the chancel a modern archway 

 opens to the vestry and organ chamber. The chancel 



windows a side, has now only two on the north, the 

 third having been taken out and re-used in the north 

 wall of the north aisle. These windows, with the two 

 eastern windows on the south side, are each of two 

 cinquefoiled lights with four-centred heads. The 

 western window on the south side is an early 

 fourteenth-century window of two trefoiled lights 

 with tracery, evidently re-used ; it probably came from 

 the south wall of the nave, before the westward 

 extension of the south aisle. All the clearstory 

 windows are now beneath the roofs of the aisles. 



The north-east quoins of the aisleless twelfth- 

 century nave are still to be seen from the organ 

 chamber, and a few displaced stones of the south-east 

 angle also remain near their original position. 



The east window of the north aisle is now unglazed 

 and looks into the modern organ chamber and vestry. 

 It is of fifteenth-century date and has three cinque- 

 foiled lights with tracery over. Below its sill is a 

 band of quatrefoiled panels, with traces of red paint, 

 part of the reredos of the altar which formerly stood 

 here. 



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 Plan of Church of Our Lady, Henlow 



arch is four-centred of two orders, the outer with two 

 hollow chamfers and the inner with a plain chamfer. 

 The vestry is lighted by a three-light window on the 

 north, to the west of which the stones of a small 

 round-headed twelfth-century light have been inserted 

 in the modern wall, being almost the only architec- 

 tural detail preserved from the former building. The 

 north arcade of the nave, originally of four bays, is now 

 of three and a half. It has a semi-octagonal eastern 

 respond and three octagonal piers, the western one 

 being close to the tower buttress, which projects into 

 the church. The moulded bell capitals and bases, as 

 already noted, are of late thirteenth-century detail, 

 and the arches are two-centred, of two chamfered 

 orders with a label chamfered above and below. 



In the south arcade the two eastern bays have semi- 

 octagonal responds, and an octagonal pier, with 

 moulded bases and bell capitals. The arches are two- 

 centred, of two chamfered orders with a label rounded 

 above and chamfered below. The western arch is of 

 the end of the fifteenth century, with details like those 

 of the chancel arch. The clearstory, originally of three 



In the north wall are two tall modem windows, 

 each of three trefoiled lights surmounted by carved 

 crockets and finials ; they date from the time when 

 the aisle walls were heightened. The western 

 window in the north wall is of two cinquefoiled lights 

 in a square head with a label ; the jambs and muUions 

 are of cement and only the head is old ; as already 

 noted, it appears to be from the north clearstory, and 

 from its position, seems to take the place of a former 

 north doorway. 



The east window of the south aisle appears to be a 

 fifteenth-century insertion. It has three cinquefoiled 

 lights with tracery over, a good deal restored, and the 

 label and sill are new. Below it is set a modem copy 

 of the band of quatrefoils which remains in the north 

 aisle below the east window. 



In the south wall are two modern windows of 

 fifteenth-century style, both of three lights with 

 tracery over, and in the west wall a single light, also 

 modern. 



The south doorway has been much colour-washed 

 and restored in parts with Roman cement, but is of 



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