BROADWATER HUNDRED 



occasion of his marriage with Penelope Capell. 87 

 Litton Pulter died in 1608 and his father in 1629, 

 after whose death the manor descended to Litton's 

 son Arthur. 88 The next evidence of this manor is a 

 recovery suffered in 1 740 by Pulter Forester, 80 sug- 

 gesting that an heiress of the Pulters conveyed the 

 manor to the Forester family. In 1779 it was 

 conveyed by Benjamin Palmer and Sarah his wife to 

 Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, no lord of the manor 

 of Wymondley, and probably it became merged in 

 that manor. 



The parish church of ST. MARY, 



CHURCH which stands at the east end of the 



village, is built of flint with stone 



dressings. The nave walls are of wide jointed 



courses of uncut pebbles, with a few Roman tdes 



GREAT or MUCH 

 WYTVIONDLEY 



r-archofa 11th-century 



been set in the jambs and re-. - 



window. In the south wall are a . 3 .h-cen.ur, lancet 

 ,d . low-side window probably also of the !» 

 ntury. All these windows have undergone modern 



. ' . i .konrr arrh IS in 



repair. The early i 2th-cenlury 



chancel arch i 



good preservation; It is semicircular, and rests on 

 engaged shafts with voluted capitals and scalloped 

 bases. In the chancel it a 1 3 th-ccntury piscina with 

 angle shafts and a modern square head. The sill u 

 also modern, and the capitals of the shafts arc restored. 

 There is an aumbry in the south-west corner of t lie 

 chancel, recessed in the east jamb for a door. The 

 nave is lighted on the norlh by a two-light window 

 of the 14th ceniury, with a quatrefoil in a two- 

 centred head, very much repaired, and ^ by two J— ■ 

 15th-century three-light v.' 



which ha 





Delamere, Great Wymondley : South Front 



interspersed. The chancel is tiled and the nave 

 roof is of lead. 903 



The church consists of a chancel, nave, west 

 tower, north vestry and south porch. The first 

 two are of the i ath century, the west tower was 

 built in the 15th century and the vestry and porch 

 are modern. In 1883-4 tr * e building was restored 

 throughout and the stonework to a great extent 

 renewed. Windows were inserted in the 13th, 

 14th and 15th centuries. 



The chancel is apsidal, with a 14th-century east 

 window of three lights, with tracery in a square 

 head. In the north wall a 13th-century lancet has 



repaired and their cusps cut away. The north door- 

 way, possibly retaining remnants of 14th-century 

 work, now opens to the vestry. The sooth doorway 

 is of about 1 1 20, but has been greatly repaired. It 

 ha; a round arch with an edge roll and star orna- 

 ment on the tympanum. The jambs are of two 

 orders, with abaci, on which the star ornament is 

 repeated on each face. The shafts of the outer 

 order have capitals carved with human faces and 

 inverted cushion bases. 



On the north side of the chancel arch is a low 

 squint of the I 5th century into the chancel. Above 

 it is a corbel, probably originally under the rood- 



» Chan. In,, p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccl, 94. 

 ** Ibid, i Ct of Wards, Feod. Sorv. 1 7. 

 93 Reccv. R. 1 j * 14 Geo, II, rot. 138, 



of F. Herts. East. 1 9 Geo. Ill 



.: chance 



ft. by 16 ft.; 



185 



