ODSEY HUNDRED 



SAN DON 



being later additions of about the first decade of the 

 i;th century. The church, all but the tower, was 

 repaired in 1832 and 1875 and the tower and south 

 porch in 1909. The church is built of flint rubble 

 with stone dressings, the chancel roof is tiled and the 

 nave roof covered with lead. 



The three-light traceried window in the east wall 

 of the chancel is modern ; in the north wall are two 

 late 14th-century windows having two trefoiled lights 

 with rectilinear tracery. Between them is a low- 

 arched recess which was probably used as an Easter 

 sepulchre ; the arch has a richly crocketed label ; it 

 is of late 14th-century work. The two windows in 

 the south wall are similar in detail and date to those 

 on the north. In the south wall is a 14th- 

 century triple sedile with a good deal of modern 

 work, which does not appear to be in situ. The 

 arches are trefoiled with crocketed heads and 

 the shafts under have moulded capitals and 

 bases. Adjoining the sedile is a trefoil -headed 

 piscina of contemporary date but a good deal 

 defaced. The chancel arch is of the latter part 

 of the 1 4th century and has two hollow- 

 chamfered orders, and the jambs have moulded 

 capitals and bases. Parts of the roof trusses 

 over the chancel appear to belong to the 14th 

 century, the rest of the roof being modern. 



The nave arcades are of four bays, the arches 

 having two chamfered orders with labels on both 

 sides of the walls ; the piers are octagonal and 

 have moulded capitals and bases ; the bases vary 

 in the north and south arcades. A small clear- 

 story window at the east end on either side of 

 the nave was inserted in the 1 5th century, prob- 

 ably to give additional light to the rood-loft. 



In the east wall of the north aisle is a three- 

 light window, nearly all of which is of modern 

 stonework. Adjoining it, in the north wall, is 

 a plain niche or recess with a segmental head, 

 which possibly contained an image, or it may be 

 part of the stairway to the rood-loft of which no 

 other traces remain. In the south-east angle is 

 a 15th-century piscina with cinquefoiled arch 

 and moulded edges. The east and west win- 

 dows in the north wall are of the late 14th 

 century and have two trefoiled lights with a 

 sixfoiled opening above ; the other window is 

 modern. The north doorway is of two moulded 

 orders with grotesque head stops to the label. 



In the east wall of the south aisle is an 

 obtusely pointed window of three lights with 

 flowing tracery of about 1360-70 ; adjoining it, 

 in the south wall, is a 14th-century trefoiled 

 piscina with credence shelf. The two windows 

 in the south wall are of modern stonework, but the 

 doorway of two moulded orders is original. There 

 is an old iron ring handle on the door. 



The south porch, of early 15th-century work, 

 restored in 1908, has a two-light cusped window on 

 either side, and the doorway is of two moulded 

 orders with moulded capitals, all a good deal 

 repaired. 



The roofs over nave and aisles are chiefly modern, 



but some old timbers remain, and at the west end of 

 the north aisle is a 15th-century moulded beam and 

 carved boss. 



The tower is of three stages. It was considerably 

 restored in 1 908. The four-centred tower arch is of 

 three moulded orders, the inner order resting on 

 engaged shafts with moulded capitals and bases. 

 The west doorway and window above are modern. 

 The second stage is pierced in the south by a narrow 

 single light ; the belfry windows are of two lights 

 with a cusped opening in the heads, all much repaired. 



The bowl of the font is modern, but the octagonal 

 stem with its four flanking octagonal shafts and bases 

 belongs probably to the 14th century. 



Church Tower and South Porch 



The 15th-century oak rood-screen stands in its 

 original position ; the upper part is open with ogee 

 arches and traceried heads, the lower panels are 

 cusped, with carved spandrels and are separated by 

 pilaster buttresses ; some traces of colouring are 



The early 17th-century oak pulpit is richly carved; 

 the reading-desk has some old linen panels in it. 

 At the west end of the nave are some oak seats of the 



them 00 the old foundat 

 of 17 ft. at the two sides. 



divisions, called 'rfayes,' . 

 aide walls two windows li 



a height 



window, hut containing only two 'daye 

 apiece. At each of the two chief angl 

 there should be a buttress, 5 ft. in bread- 

 and i^ ft. in thickness, : 

 like si?e in each of the s 



There App. i, 39). 



this work the said Thon 

 (he stone of the chancel a 

 [Hist. M$S. C'M. Rip. 



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