BROADWATER HUNDRED watton-at-stone 



daughter and heir Elizabeth married Robert Burgoyn." 

 The latter is mentioned in 1540," and was holding 

 Watton Hall, with his wife Elizabeth, in 1543-** 

 In 1 547, his son and heir Robert being a minor, the 

 custody of his lands was granted to Lord Rich.* 6 In 

 1615 the 'manor' was held by Robert's son, Roger 

 Burgoyn, 3 " who was succeeded before 1616 by his son 

 John Burgoyn." John was living in 1634, and had 

 three sons,* 3 but by 1636 from a date and initials 

 ].m. on an old beam inserted in the present house 

 it would appear to have passed to the Miles family, 

 as it was in the possession of John Miles in 1719." 

 From John Miles it went to William Miles before 

 1731." In 1788 it was held by Samuel Rogers and 

 Jane his wife. 5 ' It is now a farm-house. 



A water mill " and free fishery S3 are mentioned as 

 pertaining to this estate. 



The church of ST. ANDREW AND 

 CHURCH ST. MART stands on rising ground to 

 the south-west of the village, and is 

 built of flint rubble with stone dressings. It consists 

 of a chancel, north chapel, nave, north and south 

 aisles and porches and a west tower, all of a 15th- 

 century rebuilding. In 185 1 the church was restored 

 throughout by the late Mr. Abel Smith. s ' 



The original church was entirely obliterated by 

 the 15th-century rebuilding. The east window of 

 the chancel and the two windows in the south wall 

 are each of three lights with tracery in a two-centred 

 head, but very few of the stones are old. A door 

 between them is modern, as are also the chancel arch 

 and the arcade of three bays opening to the modern 

 north chapel. Below the eastern of the two south 

 windows is a 15th-century piscina, in one range with 

 three sedilia of the 15 th century, with cinquefoiled 

 canopies and cusped spandrels. All are much 

 restored. 



The nave arcades are of the 13th century and are 

 of four bays with two-centred arches of two moulded 

 orders, supported on piers of four shafts separated by 

 hollows and having moulded capitals and bases. The 

 two arcades are almost exactly alike in detail. At 

 the north-east and south-cast angles are stair turrets 

 to the roof, which also served as rood-stairs ; only that 

 on the south side is accessible from the nave. Above 

 on each side are the doors opening from the stairs to 

 the rood loft. The turrets are carried up beyond 

 the nave parapet in an octagonal form, and that on the 

 south is embattled, while the northern one is plain. 



The clearstory has on each side four much restored 

 two-light windows of the I 5th century. The north 

 aisle has a modern arch at the east end opening into 

 the north chapel, in the north wall three three-light 

 traceried windows, and in the west wall a two-light 

 window, all much restored. The north door and 

 another small door to the east of it are both modern. 

 The north porch, of two stages, is of the 1 5 th century, 

 but all the detail is renewed, and the straight stair 

 and the parvise are also modern. The south aisle has 

 an east window of three lights, and the remaining 

 windows are like those of the north aisle. The 

 south doorway, with a two-centred arch of two wave- 



moulded orders, is of the 15th century. The south 

 porch was wholly rebuilt in the 19th century. 



The west tower opens to the nave by a 15th- 

 century arch of three moulded orders. The tower 

 is of three stages with an embattled parapet ; it has 



the 



tuth-west 



buttresses at each at 

 above the parapet ; 



Tli. 



vith four-centred heads. 



two square 

 :arried up 

 itself embattled. At the 

 doorway, both 

 The west doorway and 



the three-light window above it are so much restored 

 as to be almost wholly modern. The bell-chamber 

 windows, which are of two lights, are also much 

 restored. 



There is a brass in the chancel of a priest in a 

 quire cope of mid- 15th-century date. In the north 

 chapel is a brass of a knight in armour under an 

 ogee-shaped canopy, with a marginal inscription 

 ' + ' cv g' st Philip Peletoot chevaler qe morust le 



A ben 



I jo 



■ de Au 



the 



canopy 

 and a chief indent 

 modern restoration 

 and the inscription 

 the north chapel 



Ian de | Grace mill ccclxj | . 



are two shields, the dexter paly 



id. The other shield is plain, a 



The upper part of the figure 



were restored in 1851. Also in 



the following brasses : a knight 



r, said to be John Boteler, who died in 1514, 

 with five shields of arms ; Boteler quartering Kilpeck 

 (twice), and Boteler impaling Tyrrel, Acton and 

 (?) Belknap, his three wives ; a civilian of late 15th- 

 century date ; and one to Richard Boteler of Staple- 

 ford, 1614, with Anna his wife, daughter of John 

 Mynnc of Hertingfordbury, 1619, and their only 

 daughter Elizabeth wife of Rowland Graveley of 

 Graveley, 1600. This brass has an inscription and 

 two shields of Boteler and Graveley. A third shield 

 of Mynne is lost. 



At the east end of the nave is a much mutilated 

 brass of a lady with the lower part of the figure 

 missing ; there are indents of her husband, sons and 

 daughters, and two brass shields, the one of Drury, 

 and the other Kilpeck quartering Boteler. The frag- 

 ment of the inscription reads ' . . . . Knyght, late 

 Lorde of Wodhall whyche deceassed th . . . .' 



In the north aisle is a brass with the headless figure 

 of a civilian of the late I 5th century, and the indents 

 of two figures and of a marginal inscription. 



In the south aisle is a brass of a lady with a shield 

 of Bardolf. This is only a portion of the brass of 

 Sir Edmund Bardolf (1438) and Edmund Bardolf 

 his kinsman and Joan wife of Edmund. 



In the chapel are also a monumental slab with a 

 marginal inscription in French to Sir Robert de 

 Graveley of I4th.-cent.ury date, and an alabaster 

 slab, 8 ft. 2 in. long, incised and inlaid with figures 

 of Sir John Boteler of Woo dh all, in armour (the date 



of his death 



who died 



14 — , his eight children 



three shields of the arms 



Downhall." In the chanc 



SayweU, rector, died 1693 



14th-century floor slab to 



filled in), his two 1 



., Elizabeth, 

 died in 

 , and an inscription and 

 of Boteler, Kilpeck, and 

 el is a floor slab to John 

 , and in the north aisle is a 

 Roger de Larebi. 



M Feet of F. Hwts. East. 3; Hen. VIII. 

 « p a t. 1 Edw. VI, pt. i, m. 19. 

 * Ftet of F. Herta. Trin. 1 j Jas. L 



!7 Recov. R. Mich. 2 Chas. I, rot 

 !S fitit. Beds. (Hari. Soc. xix), 87- 

 19 Feet of F. Herts. Hil. $ Geo. 1 

 '" Recov. R. Hil. 4 Geo. II, 



" Ibid. Trin. 28 Geo. Ill, rot. 1, 



I63 



t. 35 Hen. VIII. 



eel, jSft. 6 in. by 22 ft. 

 54 ft. 6 in. by 22 ft. ; aisl 

 and tower, 14 ft. by [3 ft, 



