A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



Audrey (possibly lessees) in 1562.** In 1573 Francis 

 Ridall, rector of East Reed, claimed all tithes in 

 East Reed except those from certain freeholds and 

 demesne lands of the manor of Queenbury, and he 

 brought a suit against Robert Chambers and his 

 tenant John Cannon, who refused to pay tithes 

 from the copyhold land of that manor." Robert 

 Chambers claimed that these tithes never had belonged 

 to the rector of East Reed.** Mynchey Porcyn and 

 the tithes of Queenbury came later into the possession 

 of Richard Turner, who in 1597 demised the close 

 called Mynchens to Thomas Turner for eighty years 

 with reversion to John Turner." John Turner died 

 in i6oz, and Thomas Turner, aged sixty, was his 

 brother and heir.^ Richard Turner died in 160+, at 

 which date he was seised of the tithes and the close. 51 

 It appears, however, that in lieu of tithes the rectors 

 of Reed had the right to half an acre of wheat and 

 half an acre of barley in Queenbury. This, before 

 1722, had been commuted for a payment of 40J. 

 chargeable on an acre of land called Parson's Acre. 5 '' 

 Certain lands in Reed, appendant to the manor 

 of Sandon, were held by the Dean and Chapter of 

 St. Paul's in the 1 oth century, and the latter were con- 

 firmed in their possession by King Athelstai 



inn ii*cent n u'fcENT 



1 14 ft CENT □ MODEBN 

 1 of Reed Church 



por 



repairs were made. 



The large five-light east window of the chancel is 

 modern, but parts of the reticulated tracery belonged 

 to the 14th-century window. In the north wall is 

 a window of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in 

 the head, of about 1350 date; the two-light window 

 in the south wall is modern ; the chancel arch also 

 is modern. 



In the north wall of the nave are two windows, each 

 of two cinquefoiled lights under a square head, and 

 of 1 jth-century date ; they have been much repaired ; 

 between them is a blocked north doorway, which has 

 a semicircular head, rudely moulded, and with a plain 

 tympanum ; the jambs have engaged shafts with 

 roughly voluted capitals under a heavy splayed abacus ; 

 the bases are much decayed. The doorway appears 

 to date from the beginning of the I 2th century. The 

 doorway itself is of Barnack stone, but the inner arch is 

 of clunch. There are two modern two-light windows 

 in the south wall of the nave, but the doorway between 

 them is of late i+th-century work, with arch and 

 jambs of two orders continuously moulded ; the label 

 imb of 

 . of a 

 of the 



loft. Each of the four 

 externally is formed of loi 



The 

 two splayed base-courses, 1 

 :he other ; 



irsc on the angle quoin only, 



which presumably was carried 



has disappeared ; the 



upper t 



round the church, but is carried : 

 tower. 66 The quoin ; 

 th the flint walling, 

 pointed tower arch is of 



These lands are not recorded in the Domesday Survey 

 in 10S6, but they remained attached to the manor of 

 Sandon (q.v.), which was subsequently called Gannocks 

 Manor. In the 14th century the lands in Reed 

 were also called Gannocks, 11 and were described as 

 30 acres of land he'd of the Dean and Chapter of 

 St. Paul's.-' Ko record of these lands occurs after this 

 time, but there still exist in the south of the parish a 

 grove and green which bear the name of Gannocks. 



The church of ST. MARY consists 

 CHURCH of chancel 21 ft. 6 in. by 17 ft., nave 

 34 ft- by 19 ft., south porch and west 

 tower id ft. 6 in. by toft.; all dimensions taken 

 internally. The walls are of flint with stone dress- 

 ings, the roofs are tiled. 



The nave appears to belong to a pre-Conquest 

 period, probably about the middle of the 11th 

 century ; part of the chancel dates from about 1350 ; 



an ogec-h^aded shallow r 



ground. The west tower 



embattled parapet, except 



The west window is of 



much of the sto 



there has been 



blocked. The second stage 



side with a narrow single light; the belfry has a 



single pointed light on each face, much worn. 



The font is modern, but the remains of the 15th- 

 century one formerly in the garden of Reed Hall, 

 arc now in Bark way Church ; the bowl is octagonal, and 

 underneath arc carved flowers and shields and some 



ind in the north j 

 iche, about 3 ft. from the 

 is of three stages, with an 

 in the east, which is plain, 

 two trefoiled lights, with 

 ■k restored. Under the window 

 opening, now 



; of the 



at Reed Hall. 



i of tracery 



: communion table is of early 1 7th-c 

 nd has turned and moulded legs. 



ted by Rev. W. T. Sn.bbs. 

 r&, C a , f , $<,*. ii l4SI . 

 no. Inn. p.m. jKEoV. Ill, a 

 id. iSEdw. Ill (zndnos.) n 

 '. Ill (znd nos.), no. 4. 



