A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



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;a;t window of the chancel is of thr 

 ghts with tracery above in a lv 

 id has been almost entirely restored 

 south wall is a similar window of two trcfoiled lights 

 which has been wholly restored. In the north wall 

 are two arches, the easternmost being of the early 

 I ;th century. It is four-centred, and has a panelled 

 soffit and a carved figure of an angel holding a shield 

 in the apex ; an ogee label, with a finial and crockets, 

 piercing a square outer label, surmounts it, and in the 

 spandrels of the outer label are shields, while a rose 

 tills the space above the apex of the arch. This arch 

 forms a canopy for a tomb to be described below. 

 The westernmost arch is two-centred, of about 

 nd is of two moulded orders with shafted 

 In the south wall is a doorway of the I 2th 

 ntury, but almost wholly restored. It was formerly 

 :tcrnal, but now leads into the modern vestry. To 

 idow in the south wall is a piscina 

 ntury with a trefoiled head. The 

 15th-century work, and is of two 

 hafted jambs and a label with 



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the east of the 

 of the late 14th c 

 chancel arch i 

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north chapel arc of the 15th 



are otherwise modern. 



arch leading to the aisl 



original. It is filled by 



century, of three bays, w 



tracery and solid lower 



ch.ipel is an early l6th-cc 



repaired. The nave has a north arcade of three 



bays, of which the two eastern arches are of about 



1360, of two chamfered orders and supported on an 



octagonal column and half-octagonal respond;, of 



which the western abuts on a jamb of the 1 1 th century, 



one of the two of that date which support a modern 



two-centred arch, the third of the arcade. These 



jambs have abaci roughly cable-moulded, and the 



. which dot 



the 



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t appear 

 respond 

 those at the side higher 

 foiled, while the centre 

 : have crocketed labels 



north side of the western pier of the arcade is a small 

 bracket. The rood-loft door pierces the north wall at 

 the eastern end, its sill being -at the level of the abacus 

 of the eastern respond. In the south wall at the 

 eastern end is a window of three lights, of the 1 5th 

 century, with modem tracery. The rear arch is 

 original and is ogced at the head. The south door- 

 way is of the 14th century, and is of two continuously 

 moulded orders, unrestored. The south porch is 

 modern. At the west end of the nave a two-centred 

 archway opens into the west tower, which is of three 

 stages, with an embattled parapet and a small leaded 

 spire. The west doorway, with a pointed arch in a 

 square head and tracery in tfie spandrels, the west 

 window above, and the four bell-chamber lights arc 

 all of the late i;th century, the date of the tower 

 itself. The vaulting of the ground stage is modern. 

 The north aisle has at the north-east angle a newel 

 stair to the rood-loft, approached by a 15th-century 

 doorway with a four-centred head and continuously 

 moulded, and opening at the upper end by a plain 

 splayed four-centred archway. The two three-light 

 windows in the north wall are 

 of the late 15th century, with 

 cinquefoiled heads, and are very 

 much restored. A two-light 

 window in the west wall is 

 probably a little earlier, but is 

 also restored. The north door- 

 way is of the 15th century, and 

 has a four-centred head con- 

 tinuously moulded with the 

 jambs. The north porch is 



The tomb under the eastern 

 arch in the north wall of the 

 chancel is that of a knight and 

 his lady, with recumbent effigies 

 on an altar tomb with panelled 

 sides, of about 1440. The 

 knight is in full plate armour, 

 with a finely carved girdle and 

 collar, and wears a rich and 

 heavy orle on his uncovered 

 head, which rests on his great 

 helm. His feet rest on a lion. The lady, whose 

 arms are broken away, wears a square headdress. 

 The tomb is probably that of Philip Thornbury, 

 who died about 1457. Under the western arch of 

 the same wall is another altar tomb of the late 14th 

 century, probably that of Sir John Thornbury, who 

 died about 1396. It has large shields in square 

 quatrefoiled panels, alternating with niches contain- 

 ing small figures. One of the shields bears the arms 

 of Thornbury. The effigies are those of a knight 

 and lady. The former wears plate armour with a 

 pointed basinet and a camail. The head rests on the 

 great helm and the feet on a lion, while the head of 

 the lady, who wears a honeycombed headdress, is 

 supported by figures, now broken away, and her feet 

 rest on a lap-dog. The figures are in very bad con- 

 of both being gom 



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tched upon them, but there are traces of 

 1 the effigy of the knight. In the north wall 

 arth chapel is a tomb-recess of the 15th 



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re are six bells: (1) by Miles Graye, 1629; 



iid-!5th-century bell, inscribed 'Sancte Petre 



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