FLITT HUNDRED 



Caddington 



fifteenth-century window of two cinquefoiled lights, 

 now looking into the modern vestry. Between the 

 windows is the vestry door, also modern. In the 

 south wall are two fifteenth-century windows, one 

 near the west angle of two trefoiled lights, and the 

 other of two cinquefoiled lights over the sedilia and 

 piscina. These latter are of the date of the chancel, 

 the piscina being double, with pointed arches inter- 

 secting in the head, and having a central corbel in 

 place of a shaft ; while the sedilia, three in number, 

 the westernmost of which was discovered in 1876, 

 have shafts with moulded circular capitals and bases, 

 the western seat being at a lower level than the other 

 two. The arches are pointed, and both they and 

 those over the piscina have soffit cusps, and above 

 them is a moulded string. Between the two south 

 windows is a pointed doorway with a thirteenth- 

 century label. 



The chancel arch is of two orders, with hollow 

 chamfers, and belongs to the fourteenth century ; but 

 its jambs are good work of the latter part of the 

 twelfth century, with a keeled respond to the inner 

 order, and engaged jamb-shafts to the outer, all having 

 foliate capitals and square abaci. The north jamb is 

 partly overlapped on the east by the wall of the chan- 

 cel, perhaps as a result of a widening of the opening 

 in the fourteenth century, when the existing arch was 

 set on the older jambs. Its span is now about 1 2 ft. 

 6 in. in the clear. The nave arcades are of four bays, 

 with octagonal shafts, moulded capitals and bases, and 

 pointed arches of two chamfered orders. In the north 

 arcade the first two bays date from the first half of the 

 fourteenth century, and have high pointed arches and 

 small four-leaved flowers on the capitals, while the 

 remaining two are more than a century later, the 

 arches being lower and the details plainer. The 

 respond formerly at the west of the two fourteenth- 

 century bays has been re-used as the west respond of 

 the arcade. In the south arcade the shafts are taller 

 than those in the north, but the details of the moulded 

 capitals are inferior. The east arch of the arcade 

 springs directly fi^om the wall without a respond, per- 

 haps to give more room for a southern nave altar. 



The east window of the north aisle is a traceried 

 circle, contemporary with the two east bays of the 

 arcade, but now blocked by a modern vestry. In the 

 north wall of the aisle is a large three-light window 

 with fifteenth-century tracery, and to the west two 

 smaller windows of three cinquefoiled lights of the date 

 of the later bays of the arcade. The south aisle has 

 no east window, but three three-light south windows 

 contemporary with the south arcade, the eastern of 

 the three distinguished by having tracery openings 

 above each light, while the other two have tracery 

 over the middle light only. To the west of the win- 

 dows is the south doorway, of two orders, with zigzag 

 on the outer order and a keeled roll between two 

 hollows on the inner, and jamb shafts with foliate 

 capitals. It is of the same date as the jambs of the 

 chancel arch, and has been reset here at the building 

 of the aisle, in company with the two-light window 

 immediately to the west, which has a fourteenth- 

 century rear arch and modern tracery, and probably 

 also came from the south wall of the aisleless nave. 

 The tower has a plain east arch of two chamfered 



orders, and a west doorway with a four-centred arch 

 under a square head, while over it is a window of 

 three cinquefoiled lights. In the south-east angle is 

 a vice. Externally the tower is covered with rough- 

 cast, and is finished with plain battlements. 



The chancel roof is modern, but the nave and aisles 

 have simple but good roofs of late fifteenth-century 

 style, with some modern timbers. On the east wall 

 of the nave, at the level of the corbels of the roof, is a 

 moulded beam, from which a coved canopy over the 

 rood sprang to the east tie-beam, which is a few feet 

 west of the east wall. The ridge and purlins running 

 from the tie-beam to the east wall are plain, and not 

 moulded as elsewhere, as they would have been hidden 

 by the canopy. At the west end of the nave, on both 

 sides of the central passage, are three rows of benches 

 with linen-pattern ends and buttresses, c. 1500, and 

 the pulpit in the north-east angle of the nave is 

 hexagonal with moulded panels, c. 1600. In the 

 chancel is a Jacobean chair, within the altar-rails. 

 The rood-loft door remains to the south of the chan- 

 cel arch, and in the east end of the south aisle is a 

 piscina discovered in 1876, under a round arch of 

 doubtfiil date. 



The font stands at the west end of the south aisle, 

 and is of the fifteenth century, with an octagonal 

 bowl, each face having a cusped panel with roses, fir 

 cones, acorns or oak leaves at the points of the cusps. 



In the pavement at the east of the nave is a slab 

 with the brass figures of John Hawtt, otherwise called 

 Cryscyan, 1505, his wife Elizabeth, four sons, and 

 four daughters ; and at the east end of the north 

 aisle is the brass of Edward Dormer, 'ydman,' 1 5 18, 

 his two wives, and their children. There are no 

 mural monuments of importance, but a helm with a 

 crest of a cock is set against the south wall of the 

 chancel. 



There are six bells, the treble by Taylor, i88i ; 

 the second, third, and fifth by Chapman & Meats, 

 1782 ; the fourth by Thomas Mears, i8oo ; and the 

 tenor by the same founder, 1 8 1 9. The plate consists of 

 a chalice, a paten, a flagon, and two standing patens, 

 all of silver, and presented in 1 740. 



The registers begin in 1558. 



The church of ST*. ANDREW, WOODSIDE, built 

 in 1 890 by the late Mr. J. S. Crawley of Stockwood 

 Park, is of brick and stone, in the Early English style. 

 The registers date from the year of erection. 



The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, 

 MARKTATE, a brick building, was erected in 1734 

 by John Coppin on the waste land near Markyate Cell. 

 It was enlarged by Joseph Howell in 1811,*^ and in 

 1 842 Mr. Adey added the north aisle. The building 

 was thoroughly restored in 1874 by the Rev. Francis 

 William Adye. Within the church is a part of an 

 old stone coffin lid, on which is carved in relief a very 

 fine foliate cross of thirteenth-century work, but there 

 is no inscription. 



The church of Caddington was 

 ADVOWSON granted to the dean and chapter of 

 St. Paul's by Walter, bishop of Lin- 

 coln, in 1 1 8 3-4,*° and this grant was confirmed in 

 1254 by Henry, bishop of Lincoln,'' and again in 

 1406 by Philip, bishop of Lincoln.^ The advowson 

 seems to have belonged to the chapter of St. Paul's 



85 Cussans, Hist. 

 Hundred, 1 1 6. 



of Herts. Dacorum 



M Hist. MSS. Com. Rep, ii, App. pt. i, 

 Jon. 



«l Ibid. 32a. 88 Ibid, 39A. 



