BROADWATER HUNDRED knebworth 



cinquefoiled head. The sill is modern. The chancel 



roof has an oak-panelled wagon ceiling. 



The north chapel has two square-headed windows, 

 at the east and north, of about 1 700, with wooden 

 frames. An elaborate ironwork screen of the same 

 date, set in the arch on the south side, separates the 

 chapel from the chancel. The flat plaster ceiling is 

 of about the same date also. 



The nave is approached from the north chapel by 

 a. square-headed skew doorway emerging at the north- 

 east corner of the nave. Beside it, in the north wall, 

 is a single-light window with modern tracery. Im- 

 mediately above this window is the upper doorway of 

 the rood-loft stair, and the blocked lower doorway 

 with a moulded two-centred arch is visible to the 

 west of the window. To the west of this is a much 

 — repaired two-centred arch, which now leads to a 

 vestry, and west of this is a wide single-light window, 



head. There are shields in the spandrels, one of 

 which bears the arms of Hotoft : Sable three 

 dragons* heads erect and razed argent. 



On the north and south sides of the second stage 

 are narrow loops, and in the bell chamber are four 

 windows of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil 



The nave is seated throughout with a complete' 

 set of 15th-century oak seats, moulded and having 

 rich tracery in the end panels. At the north-east is 

 a high pew with pinnacles at the corners and a 

 pierced cresting. The pulpit is of richly carved 

 16th-century Flemish panelling, made up in the 

 18th century. One of the panels is dated 1567. 

 There is similar panelling on the east wall of the nave 

 behind the pulpit. 



The font is octagonal, of limestone and plainly 

 moulded. It dates from about 1480. 



Knebworth Church from the South-east 



a modern insertion, which probably marks the 

 position of an earlier two-light window. 



On the south side are a modern single-light 

 window, a square-headed window of three lights 

 with much restored tracery of about 1 3 50, and a two- 

 light window of the 1 5th century, which is also much 

 restored. To the west of these is the south doorway, 

 of about 1380. It has a two-centred arch, much 

 repaired, leading to the south porch, which is heavily 

 covered with ivy and shows only traces of the 

 original windows. The entrance archway is four- 

 centred and coated with cement. To the west of 

 the south doorway is a window of about 1500, from 

 which the central mullion is gone. 



The tower arch, of about 1420, is of two moulded 

 orders with engaged shafts. The tracery of the west 

 window is modern, but the window itself is original 

 with grotesque heads on the stops of the labels. The 

 west doorway has a two-centred arch in a square 



In the chancel is a brass of Simon Bache, 1414, a 

 priest in eucharistic vestments, with figures of saints 

 on his cope, and an inscription ; under the archway 

 between the chancel and the chapel and partly 

 covered by the iron grille another, to John Hotoft, 

 of about 1470, with an inscription on six strips of 

 brass, and three shields of arms. The brass is said to 

 have been on an altar tomb and is not now on its 

 original slab. Or the chancel wall is a slab to Judith 

 Lytton, wife of Nicholas Strode, 1662 ; and a floor 

 slab is to John Ham, clerkus, 1684. 



The monuments in the chapel are mostly to 

 various members of the Lytton family. There are a 

 brass of Rowland Lytton and his two wives, 1582, with 

 arms and an inscription ; a monument, 1601, to 

 Anna the wife of Rowland Lytton, with arms ; a tomb 

 of Sir William Lytton, 1704-5, with a recumbent 

 marble figure under an elaborate canopy with the 

 arms and quarterings of Lytton. There are floor 



