A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



west replaces the former rood-loft staircase, but the 

 upper doorway, which is blocked, and part of the 

 lower doorway remain, the latter in the aisle, just 

 outside the screen. At the north-east corner of the 

 chapel is an elaborately carved niche of the 14th 

 century, which must have been moved to its present 

 position in the 15th century, when the wide east 

 window was inserted and the north wall was recessed. 

 On the south side is a 14th-century piscina with an 

 ogee cinquefoiled head and a label with crockets and 

 a foliated fiaiaL No bowl is visible, and a modern 

 slab has been inserted at the back. The screen of the 

 chapel consists of a central doorway with four narrow 

 bays on either side ; ail have solid lower panels with 

 blind tracery and four-centred cinquefoiled recusped 

 lights, with tracery above carried right up to the line 



and resting on plainly moulded corbels. The floor 

 of this chapel seems to have been lowered, and while 

 the lower part of the walls is of the 14th the upper 

 part is of the 15th century. The east window, which 

 is of live lights in a wide four-centred head, and the 

 two south windows of three lights are of the 1 5th 

 century, but the tracery is modern. Under the 

 south-east window is a double piscina of the 14th 

 century with an ogee trefoiled head, which projects 

 from the wall and has foliated crockets. In range 

 with it, and also beneath the window, are two sedilia 

 with similar heads ; the division is repaired with 

 cement, and the western seat is lower than the 

 eastern ; all are much mutilated. Over the first 

 pillar on the north side is an early I sth-century carved 



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of the cornice. The doors are repaired, and the 

 doorway is cinquefoiled in a four-centred head, with 

 tracery above similar to that in the side bays. It is 

 of the same date as the screen of the chancel and the 

 south chapel. The latter is, however, very mnch 

 richer, and is designed without a door. It has three 

 bays on either side of the doorway with elaborately 

 cusped ogee lights above traceried panels Pinnacles 

 are introduced into the tracery, which is in a four- 

 centred head. The screen is elaborately canopied 

 with imitation of vaulting, and immediately below 

 the cresting the cornice is adorned with a beautiful 

 running vine-pattern. The doorway opening is sept- 

 foiled and recusped and has a twisted stem moulding 

 running round the outside, from which the crockets 

 spring. The roof of this chapel is of the 15th 

 century, similar to that of the chancel, but plainer 



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Q this chapel is of the 17th 



The nave, of which the arcades are c 



with those of the western portion of the chancel, has 

 six bays of the 1 4 th century, in excellent preservation. 

 They arc slightly different from the two bays of the 

 chancel, the two easternmost being rather lower 

 than the rest. The bases, clustered shafts, capitals 

 and moulded labels with mask stops, however, are 

 exactly similar. In the north wall is another road- 

 loft door, now blocked. The 15th-century clear- 

 story, which runs continuously above the arcades 

 in both nave and chancel, has seven windows on 

 each side with two-centred heads. The roof, also 

 of the 1 5th century, is precisely like that of the 

 chancel and rests on corbels carved with heads. The 

 easternmost wall plate is close to the westernmost 



