A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



sold by Francis and John Symonde and John and 

 Elizabeih Clerkc to Edward Fitz John." In 1657 

 it was in the possession of Ralph Penny father , J7 who 

 in 1673 sold it to Edmund Knight." After this date 

 there is no further record of the manor. 



Hawkin's Hall, now a farm-house, is situated a 

 little east of Datchworth Green on the road to Watton. 



BRJGBURV (Bragborrowes, Brackberrie, xvii 

 cent.) was owned at the end of the 1 6th century by 

 Thomas Michell, son of John Michel], who held it of 

 the manor of Friars in Standon in socage by fealty. 

 He settled it in i6oz on his son Thomas, who was 

 about to marry Martha Bussye, and who succeeded his 

 father in 1610." Bragbury is now in the possession 

 of Mr. Samuel S. Berger, J.P. 



of the 17th century, and none of the original work 

 can now be traced. The south porch ii probably of 

 the same date as the alteration of the chancel. The 

 top stage of the tower was rebuilt in 1875 when the 

 church was restored ; the north vestry is modern. 



The chancel has an cast window, and two in the 

 south wall, of about 1600. The east window has a 

 four-centred head which has been blocked, and the 

 three cinquefoiled lights in a square top are modern. 

 The two south windows are of two lights. On the 

 north a modern two-centred doorway leads to the 

 vestry. The roof, of the late 1 6th or early 17th 

 century, is of the collar beam type, with plaster. 



The nave has a north arcade of four bays, which it 

 now much out of the perpendicular, and a trust has 

 been thrown across the aisle, 

 against it, with a buttress 

 outside the aisle wall to sup- 

 port it. The arches are 

 two-centred, of two hollow- 

 chamfered orders, and rest on 

 octagonal columns with 

 moulded capitals and bates. 

 The responds have modern 

 detached shafts of Purbeck 

 marble with crudely foliated 

 capitals, which support the 

 inner order only, the outer 

 hollow chamfer descending 

 without interruption to the 

 ground. In the south wall 

 are two wi ndows, one on each 

 side of the south door. That 

 on the e.ist, of about 1360, 

 is two-centred within, but 

 externally shows two cinque- 

 foiled lights in a square head. 

 That on the west is also of 

 two cinquefoilcd lights much 

 repaired. The heads are 

 \\ holly modern, but the jambs 

 are old. 



The south doorway is 

 modern, with detached shafts 

 on the outside. The 17th- 

 century south porch has a 

 four-centred entrance arch and 

 four narrow blocked loops, 

 two in the east and two in 



the 



wall. 



Datchworth Chl'rch from the South 



The parish church of JLL SAINTS™ 

 CHURCH consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, 

 north vestry, west tower and south porch 

 It is built of flint rubble with stone dressings, and the 

 roofs are tiled. Th: whole building is plastered 

 externally. The nave is probably of the lzth 



CCntU ?j j Lata '" the Ijth centurv the no "h aisle 

 was added, and the lower part of the tower dates from 

 the 14th century. The chancel arch is of late ieth- 

 :ntury date, but the rest of the chancel was wholly 

 t the end of the 16th or the beginning 



remodelled a 



The roof of the nave is of 

 the 1 ■ 1 h century and is 

 plastered. 

 The north aisle has a 1 5th-century window oftwo 

 cinquefoilcd lights in a square head at the eastern 

 end of the north wall. The jambs only are old. 

 The east and west windows and the western of the 

 two in the north wall are modern, of two lights, 

 with rear arches of the late 14th century. Over the 

 east window of the aisle are the remains of three 

 small niches. 



The tower arch is lofty, and, in common with the 

 whole of the lower stage of the tower, is of about 

 1380. The west doorway is blocked and the 



* Feet of F. Herts. Hit. ; 4 Eli? 



I? Reco T . R. East. 1657, rot. 14+. 



* Feet of F. Hem. Mich. 25 Chae 



■ p.m. (Ser. 1), eccx<vii, nave, 38 ft. by 19 ft.; north lUle, 

 39 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in. ; tower, lift, bf 



8 : chancel, 23 ft. by 14 ft. 10/t. 6 in. 



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