A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



tower were added. In 1861 the church was rather 

 drastically restored, the north aisle being completely 

 rebuilt, the windows and doors much repaired and 

 altered and the north vestry and organ chamber 

 added. ,. v . 



The chancel has an east window of three lights, in 

 which traces of early 14th-century work remain, but 

 the bulk of it is modern. On either side of it the 

 remains of a 13th-century lancet window are visible 

 with traces of contemporary paintings of figures of 

 angels on the remaining splays. The chapel arcade 

 on the south side is of the 15th century, of three 

 bays with columns of four clustered shafts and 

 moulded arches. Between the chancel and south 

 chapel are parts of a mid- 15th-century parclose 

 screen, much repaired, with traceried panels and 

 moulded stiles and cornice. There are six poppy- 

 head bench ends of the 15 th century in the chancel, 

 also much restored. The north wall of the chancel 



The south chapel has an east window and three 



century and has a continuous moulding, and a label 

 with grotesque stops. It opens to the south porch, of 

 the same date, which ii of two stories, and originally 

 had a window opening into the south aisle from the 

 second stage ; this is now blocked. The pointed 

 entrance arch is plain and has a label with carved 

 stops. There are square-headed windowi on the 

 east and west. The second stage is approached by 

 an octagonal stair turret rising above the porch, at 

 the north-west, at the angle of junction with the 

 aisle, and is lighted by a two-light traceried window 

 with a pointed head. Both the porch and the turret 

 have embattled parapets above string-courses. The 

 west tower is of two stages with strongly projecting 

 embattled parapet and a tead-covered 

 At the north-east corner is a project- 

 :. The tower arch is of the 15th century, 

 ntred, of two moulded orders with flat 

 jambs. The west door is so much restored as to be 

 practically modern, and the same is true of the 

 window above it. The windows of the upper stage 



buttresses, a 

 needle spire. 



s four-c 



square-headed south window!. The openings are 

 original, but all the tracery is modern, and the south 

 door is much restored. There is here an early 13 th- 

 century piscina, which has been reset. The mid- 

 1 5th-century screen at the west of the chapel has a 

 vaulted canopy. It is much restored throughout. 



The nave has arcades of six bays, of the end of the 

 1 ith or early years of the I 3th century. The arches 

 are two-centred, and of two moulded orders, with 

 drop labels facing the nave. The columns are 

 circular with moulded bases • some of the capitals 

 are scalloped and some foliate. The clearstory 

 windows are three on the north and four on the 

 south. They have two lights, and the westernmost 

 on the south side has a wooden head. 



The north aisle is entirely modem. The south 

 aisle, which is much restored, has four three-light 

 windows, of which the jambs and rear arches only 

 are old. The roof of this aisle is of late 1 ;th or early 

 1 6th-century date. It has moulded ridges, purlins and 

 wall-plates and cambered trusses resting on corbels 

 carved as angels. The south doorway is of the 1 5th 



of the tower are of two trefoiled lights ; they also are 

 much restored. 



The earliest monument is an early 1 Jth-century 

 brass in the chancel, with the figure of a woman wear- 

 ing her hair loose, having no inscription. There are 

 mural monuments to Susannah wife of Sir Jonathan 

 Keate, 1673, to Judith Orlebar, 1690, and to Sir 

 Jonathan Keate, 1700. 



There are six bells : the first and third are by 

 Robert Oldfeild, 1636; the second is by John 

 Waylett, 1728 ; the fourth is by John Saunders, 

 and dates from the middle of the 16th century ; the 

 fifth is probably by William Burford, of the middle 

 of the 14th century, and the sixth is by Robert 

 Oldfeild, with the date 1638. 



The plate includes a cup of 1 63 5. 



The registers are contained in three boob, the 

 first containing baptisms and burials from 15 59 t0 

 1777 and marriages from 1559 to 1753; t" e 

 second contains baptisms and burials from 1 777 

 to i8iz, and the third marriages from 1777 to 

 iSiz. 



