A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



I jth century with poppy-head finials. In the windim, 

 of the aisles are some fragment j of old painted glass. 

 On the nave floor is the brass of John Kite Geoffrey, 

 lord of the manor of Daniel;, who died in 1480, in 

 armour, with his wife and six daughters ; there are 

 three shield;, a fourth being missing. At the west 

 end of the south aisle is a brass inscription, undated, 

 but probably of the early 1 6th century, to Symond 

 Pratt, lord or Olivers Manor, and his wife Jone. 

 On the south chancel wall is a mural tablet to Edward 

 Nicholas, who died in 16S3, and an alabaster monu- 

 ment to Elizabeth Morvson of Daniels, who died in 

 1626. There is a slab on the nave floor to Edward 

 .Nicholas, 1683. 



There are five bells: the treble (undated), second 

 (1721), third (1728) and fourth (1709) by John 

 Waylett ; the tenor (1624) by Miles Graye. 



The communion plate consists of cup and large 

 paten, 1688, the gift of John Nicholas, Warden of 

 Winchester College, and a pewter almsdish.'' 



The registers are in four books : (1) baptisms 

 1697 to 1749, marriages and burials 1678 to 1749 ; 

 (ii) baptisms and burials 1750 to 1795, marriages 

 1750 to 1766; (iii) baptisms and burials 179610 

 [8] 2 ; (iv) marriages 1 76 7 to 18 I 2. 



The advowson of the church of 



JDfOlfSON Sandon belonged to the Dean and 



Chapter of St. Paul's," and in 1155 



it was let to farm with the manor to Alexander, 



one of the canons of the cathedral." There was 



attached to the church half a hide of land which 

 was geUable to the king.'" The church w« 

 appropriated to the dean and chapter by Bishop 

 Walter of Lincoln in 1183-+" A vicarage was 

 ordained in the time of Bishop Hugh Wells 

 (1209-15)" and confirmed in [406." 1 he advow- 

 son of Sandon remain 

 of St. Paul's until the 

 In 1845 the parish w 

 of Lincoln to t 



h the Dean and Chapter 

 c of the 19th century." 

 sfcrred from the diocese 

 f Rochester, and in 1 8 Jo the 



transferred to the bishop of the latter 

 diocese. ,s In I 877, after the formation of the see of 

 St. Albans, the patronage of Sandon was transferred 

 to the Bishop of St. Albans,*" in whose gift it now is. 

 In the Parliamentary returns of 

 CHARITIES 1786 it is stated that an unknown 

 donor gave a rent-charge of £2 for 

 breid to the poor. Bread to the value of £z is pro- 

 vided annually by the tenant of Beckfield Farm and 

 distributed by him at Christmas. 



It i; also stated in the same returns that an 

 unknown donor gave £2 yearly for distribution to 

 the poor. This sum is annually distributed by the 

 tenant of ' Killhop Farm' to the poor in small sums. 



In 17+7 John Brett by his will gave a sum of 

 money, now represented by ^782 3/. <)d. consols 

 with the official trustees, producing £19 1 u. yearly, 

 the interest to be applied towards the support or 

 maintenance of the Protestant Dissenting Calvinist 



TIIERFIELD 



Furreuuelde (xi cent.) ; Tirefeld (xii cent.) ; 

 Terfeud, Tertefeud, Trefeud, Tirefeld, TherTeud, 

 Tiresfeld (xiii cent.) ; Theresfelde, Torfeld (xvi cent.) ; 

 Tharfield (xvii cent.). 



Therfield is a parish of about 4,704 acres in the 

 north of the county, stretching from the Cambridge- 

 shire border some 4 i miles towards the south. ' It 

 lies on a ridge of the" Chilterns which slopes some- 

 what abruptly to the north and more gradually to the 

 south. The highest part of this ridge is more than 

 500 ft. above the ordnance datum, while the low 

 ground on the northern border has a height of about 

 23; ft., and in the south the ground slopes down to 

 365 ft. The Icknicld Way marks the northern 

 border of the parish and the straight line of Ermine 

 Street forms the parish boundary on the east. 



A by-road leads direct from the kknield Way to 

 Therfield village, which stands on the highest part of 

 the ridge. The village, called locally the 'town," 

 is ;mall and built irregularly about an open green, the 

 rector)' and the church standing a little way back on 

 the south-west. 



hurch there can be traced 

 mt and baileys, defended 

 idence of an inner ditch, 



To the north-wes 

 a fonified village ivi 

 by a dry ditch. Tl 

 and of a larger inck 



The rectory lies to the south-east of the church. 

 Its main building, which is of brick, appears from the 

 registers to have been rebuilt about 1769, the library 

 having been added in t8oo. ! On the east side is a 

 building of two stories which dates from the i;th 

 century, and which was probably a wing of the old 

 building, foundations of a similar wing having been 

 discovered on the west side of the main building. 3 

 The old wing is built of flint rubble covered with 

 cement, and with clunch dressings ; the roofs are 

 tiled. 



The ground stage of this wing consisted originally 

 of one long room, running north and south, 30ft. Sin. 

 by 1 1 ft. 3 in.* ; at either end, on its eastern side, was 

 a projecting wing, that on the north being 1 1 ft. 3 in. 

 by 7 ft., that on the south 1 2 ft. 6 in. by 1 2 ft. Some 

 time during the 17th century, probably in the time of 

 Charles II, the south wall on the ground story of the 



16S9 by Jo); 



bore the inscription 'Dnnora Jnhannii 

 Nicholas S.T.P. Coll. BeaSiE Maris prope 

 Winton tustoJii. Qaid rependam Domino 



a faculty and 

 repair of the 

 church {Hcrlt. 

 5 June 1908). 



iliieJ for the 

 porch of the 

 ibl. Rtporlir, 



lihi. Calicem salulatem 3 

 men Domiiiiiiivocabo.' Tl 

 esolJ in 190; for £700111 



" Hht. MSS. Com. Rep. ix, App. i, 2c,*. 

 For the confirmation by Bishop Henry 



2-6 



,1! Hht. MSS. Com. Ret,. i t , App. 



" Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



li See Eait Hern. Arch. Soc. Tram. 



"LW.Ca*. ij July i8 77lP . + ii6 

 1 Rev. J. G. Hale, St. Album Arc/, 

 and Arch. Soc. Tram. 1884, p. 20. Tl 



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Chea 



n gran 



■in 1 55; (Par 

 *. J. G. Ha 



J to Sir Rob 

 7 Edw. VI, pt. 



