HATFIELD or 



BROADWATER HUNDRED bishop's hatfiew 



I,co».i.l»of a chancel, »onh "ml sou* chap* 



Oxford.™ In 1802 Sir William Geary and others, 

 who seem to have been the trustees succeeding Sir 

 Francis Vincent and the others, sold Tolmers to 

 Garnet Terry." In 1827 it was sold by Margaret 

 wife of Charles Mousley, who may have been the 

 daughter of Garnet Terry, to Charles John Dimsdale." 

 He sold it in 183+ to Samuel Mills, who died in 

 1 8i7, K and was succeeded by his son Thomas Mills, 6 ' 

 from whom it passed to his brother John Remington 

 Mills, who was lord of the manor in 1 877." He died 

 in 1 S79, 69 and his eldest son John Remington Mills 

 having predeceased him in 1865, his estates passed to 

 his two granddaughters, who were co-heiresses. '" 

 One of them was lady of the manor in 1880. It 

 now belongs to Mr. J. Henry Johnson. 



WOODHALL was held of the manor of Hatfield 

 for the service of one knight's fee." The earliest 

 mention of the manor occurs in 1 198, when it was 

 held by John de Bassingburn and Albreda his wife, 

 and leased to Hamelin de Andeville and Alice for her 

 life. 7 ' Albreda was still living in M.\Z? Woodhall 

 descended in the Bassingburn family in the same way 

 as the manor of Astwick ;< until the death of John 

 Bassingburn in 1535, when Woodhall passed under 

 a settlement to Thomas Gawdy, the son of Anne, 

 second daughter of John Bassingburn." In 156+ 

 Thomas Gawdy and Honor his wife conveyed the 

 manor to Sir John Boteler of Watton Woodhall." 

 Sir John's eldest son Philip sold Hatfield Woodhall 

 to his brother Henry, who died in 1 609 seised of it 

 jointly with his son John." Sit John Boteler the 

 younger died in 1637,™ and his two elder sons 

 Henry and Philip having died without issue the 

 manor came to his third son William, an idiot," who 

 died in 166;. His next heirs were his five sisters, 

 two of whose husbands, Francis Lord Dunmore and 

 Endymion Porter, had been his guardians. The 

 manor, however, was held in tail-male, so that it 

 passed to Francis son of Ralph Boteler, the third of 

 Sir John Boteler's eight half-brothers.™ Francis 

 Boteler died in 1690 and was succeeded by his 

 daughter Juliana, the wife of Francis Shallcross. 81 She 

 died in 1726 and Woodhall passed by will to her 

 sister Isabel, the wife of Charles Hutchinson," who 

 died in 1728. Their son Julius Hutchinson suc- 

 ceeded K and was followed by his son Thomas, who 

 died in 1774. u Woodhall then passed to his nephew, 

 the Rev. Julius Hutchinson, son of his brother Norton, M 

 and in 1792 was sold to the Earl of Salisbury, and 

 thus became merged in the manor of Hatfield." 



Free warren was granted to the lord of the manor 

 in 1300." 



The parish church of ST. ETHEL- 

 CHURCH DREDA* standing on high ground on 

 the east side of the town, is built for 

 the most part of flint rubble with stone dressings. 

 The roofs are tiled and the tall spire is shingled. 



"Tt™„^ch„ £ hof t h=» 1 y. 3 .h-»7 



appears to have been cruciform w.lh . central »»«] 

 of which evidence remains in the th.ckened east «H 

 of the n,»e and » Hying arch on .he north side. M 

 chancel and transept, appear to have formed part ul 

 , and the north wall of the nave probably 

 the foundation! of the nave wall of the 

 the same century the small 

 of .he transepts were budt 

 ch.pel was added; this chape] was 

 in the 15th century. In the 15th 



thh 



ij the 



chapel: 



and a south 



widened late 



itury. 





1 the 



also the nave 

 antral ti 



idened to the south, 

 'as destroyed and the pre- 

 The north chapel, known 

 ,-as added about 1600-10. 



inJow 



sent west tower built. 



as the Salisbury chapel, v 



In the 19th century the walls of the na' 



rebuilt, the porches were added, and all the 



tracery and most of the external stonework were 



renewed. 



The chancel has a two-centred east window of 

 three lights with tracery above. The shafted inner 

 jambs with foliated capitals are of the 13th century. 

 The north arcade, built about 1610, is of three bays 

 of semicircular arches on Roman Doric columns. 

 The soffits are richly decorated and the arches have 

 modillion-shaped keystones. On the south side are 

 a two-light window and an arcade of two bays of 

 the 15th century. The central pillar and responds 

 are of clustered shafts with ogee rolls between, and 

 there are angels bearing shields in the capitals on 

 the north and south sides. The middle shield on 

 the central pier has the arms of Fortcscue, Azure a 

 bend engrailed argent cotised or on the bend in chief 

 a molet sable. The two-centred chancel arch is 

 modern, and has detached shafts with capitals carved 

 with lilies and a label with mask stops. Under the 

 south-east window is a piscina of the 13th century, 

 with a modern arch. 



An iron screen of the 18th century separates the 

 chance! from the north chapel, which has three 

 three-light windows — one at the east and two in the 

 north wall — all of about 1610. On the west two 

 modern arches, supported on responds and a centra! 

 pillar, open to the north transept. The walls of the 

 chapel are richly decorated with modern coloured 

 mosaics and marble wort, and the panelled and 

 painted roof is also modern. 



The south chapel has an east window of five lights 

 and two south windows of four lights each, probably 

 of the late 15th century, all with much restored 

 tracery, and a small south doorway under the w 

 most of the two south windows. The windc 



,8,. 



1. PleasD.Enr.Hil.43Gco.nl, 



A of F. Herts. East. 8 Geo 



;urke, Landed Gentry (1882). 



.. (Ser. 2), Ixii, 64 ; ■ 

 ■t of F. Herts. Rife 

 ii«R. 318, m.j. 



u Abbrev. Plat. (Rec. Com.), 270 ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. 7 Ed*. Ill ; Close, 

 9 Hen. VII, no. 36; Feet of F. Herts. 

 East. 14 Hen. VII ; East zo Hen. VII - 

 Recov. R ML 17 Hen. VIII, rot. 547. 



» Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Uii, 64. 



78 Feet of F. Herts. Hil. 6 Elit. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. a), cccviii, 



Salmon, c 



113. 



' Ibid. 



dxxiu, 56. 



orth . 



chapel, 40 ft. by 

 = UU ii. chapel, 25 ft. by 17 ft.; 

 100 ft. by 19 ft.; north 

 by 1 s ft. 6 in. ; south tr 

 • 5 ft. 6 in.; tower, t6 ft 



. iquar, 



rtsept, : 

 ft, *K 



