A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



north wall are two lockers. The modern screen has 

 a central bay of the 15th century. 



The nave has two 14th-century arches on either 

 side, inserted in the earlier wall, about 4 ft. apart. 

 They are of two chamfered orders, of which the 

 inner springs from carved corbel heads, some of 

 them modern. The labels also with their mask 

 stops, and parts of the arches, are modern. A 

 rood-loft door with a four-centred head opens from 

 a stair turret at the former level of the loft. 

 The remains of an original round-headed window 

 built of tufa are visible in the wall above the south 

 arcade. 



The north aisle has modern windows, but the north 

 doorway is of the early 1 4th century, restored, and 

 the rear arch is modern. The doorway opens into 

 the north porch, which is of stone, repaired with 

 cement, and has a pointed entrance arch in a square 

 head, with tracery in the spandrels ; on either side of 

 the entrance is a roughly executed niche with a 

 trefoiled head, and a canopied niche of the 15th 

 century is over the centre. 



In both the north and the south aisles are piscinae 

 of the 14th century. The east and south windows of 

 the south aisle are of the 1 4th century ; the former is 

 a narrow pointed window of two lights with simple 

 tracery, and the latter a square -headed window of two 

 lights, repaired. The west window is modern. To 

 the west of the south window is the south doorway, 

 dating from about 1320, of moulded clunch, opening 

 into the south porch, which has brick sides and a 

 timber framing. The four-centred entrance arch has 

 two lights on cither side, plain open timber-work in 

 the gable and moulded barge-boards. The timber- 

 work is of the 15th century and the brick is a 

 17th-century repair. 



The west tower is entered from the nave by a plain 

 arch with modern abaci. The west window is of the 

 [4th century and has three lights, with tracery; it 

 has been slightly repaired. The second stage of the 

 tower is lighted by loops and the bell-chamber has 

 two-light windows, which have been repaired with 

 cement. There is a stair turret at the north-west. 

 The lower is embattled, with a string-course 

 immediately below the battlements, but is otherwise 

 plain. It has square angle buttresses, and the low 

 pyramidal roof is tiled and surmounted by a tall 

 leaded post. 



The font, an octagonal bowl standing on a stem 

 with engaged shafts, is of 14th-century date 



The monuments consist of two brasses, one in the 

 north aisle of Robert Poydres and Alice his wife, 

 1401, with an incomplete inscription, and the other 

 in the chancel of Alice wife of Ryce Hughes, 1594, 

 a single brass bearing kneeling figures of a man, a 

 woman and children, and an inscription ; and of a 



14th-century recess in the »outh aisle with the 

 recumbent effigy of a priest. 



The bells are modern. 



Among the plate is a silver cup of 1634 and 

 a paten of 1639. 



The registers are in three books, the first all 

 entries from 171 1 to 1750, the second baptisms and 

 burials from 1750 to 1 8 1 z and marriages from 1750 

 to 1753, and the third marriages from 1754 to 1812. 

 The church of Ippollitts was 

 ADVOWHON a chapel to Hitchin, and is found 

 with that church in the possession 

 of the nunnery of Elstow, Bedfordshire, at the time of 

 the Dissolution." Both churches were appropriated 

 by the monastery. After the Dissolution the tithes 

 were granted with the rectory of Hitchin (q.v.) to 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. No mention is made 

 of the advowson, so the church was evidently then 

 served from Hitchin, although later the Institution 

 Books show that separate presentations were made for 

 Ippollitts. In March 1685-6 the benefice was 

 united by the Bishop of Lincoln with that of Great 

 Wymondley, another chapelry of Hitchin, of which 

 the college had the patronage. 1 ' The joint living 

 is still in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



In 161 1 Thomas Bibsworth by 

 CHARITIES deed conveyed certain lands and 

 cottages in the parish to trustees, the 

 rents and profits to be applied in the relief of the poor. 

 Upon the inclosure of the common lands under the 

 Act of 1 8 1 1 , so 2 a. 1 r. 2 8 p. in Bow Street Common 

 were allotted in lieu of 3 a. in the common fields. 

 The property was sold in 1863 and the proceeds 

 invested in £844 ' 9'- 7^- InQ, ' a 3 P er cent - atoc ^ wil11 

 the official trustees, producing £2 5 yj. yearly. A sura 

 of 4). yearly is also received by the trustees in respect 

 of a rood of land in a field called Bobwell, Little 

 Wymondley Farm. 



In 1623 John Welch by his will gave 61. %d. 

 yearly to the vicar and ioj. to the poor, payable out 

 of Red Coats Farm in Great Wymondley. 



In 1642 George King by deed gave 40/. yearly 

 out of land at Luton for the poor. The annuity is 

 paid by the owner of Luton Hoo estate. 



These charities are administered together; 147 

 bread and coal tickets of the value of 3;. yd. each 

 were in 1907 distributed to the poor. 



In 1653 William Guyver by his will devised an 

 annuity of £4 for apprenticing a boy or girl. The 

 rent-charge is paid by the owner of St. Ibbs estate 

 and is applied as required. 



In 1729 William Dawes by his will gave a yearly 

 sum of £$ out of his property near Hitchin for 

 distribution to the poor on St. Thomas's Day. The 

 annuity, less land tax, is paid out of land called 

 Lower Brook Field, and distributed in money doles. 



,s Dugdaie, Mm. Angt. ii 





* Loc. Act, 51 Geo. Ill, cap. 19I1 



