A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



church of St. Mary is at the south end of the street, 

 its local connexion being with the village and not 

 with the manor-house, which is about half a mile 

 distant to the south. The old vicarage was situated 

 in the meadow opposite the post office. After 

 1811, when Richard Jeffreys resigned the living, the 

 house, which was in a dilapidated condition, was 

 made into two cottages which have now disappeared. 

 The present vicarage in New Street was the private 

 property of the Rev. Henry Law, successor of Mr. 

 Jeffreys. On his resignation in 1856 he sold this 

 house to Mr. Christopher Puller, the patron, whose 

 son the Rev. Charles Puller, vicar of Standon, legally 

 converted the house into a vicarage. 30 The Men's 



arches replaced the brick bridge, which was destroyed 

 by a flood, in 1858." There is a disused windmill 

 to the south of the village ; to the north of it close 

 by the railway station is a large flour-mill, built in 

 1901, which is connected by electric wires with the 

 old water-mill on the other side of the river where 

 the water-power is now supplemented by steam. 

 This was the manorial mill to which the copyholders 

 owed multure. 23 Early in the 19th century there 

 was a paper-mill at the south end of the village 

 (probably on the site of the mill granted to the 

 Hospitallers, see under rectory manor) which was 



owned in 

 Fields. 



Standon Fjuau Farm : Old Bakn 



Institute near the school was opened in 1886. The 

 bridge over the river at the northern end of the 

 village is a county bridge. It was proposed in 1782 

 to replace the old wooden bridge by a brick one of 

 five arches wide enough for the passage of carriages, 

 so that it might combine with the recent widening 

 of the road from Hadham to Braughing and Standon 

 to improve the communication between Essex and 

 Hertfordshire. 21 The present iron bridge of two 



by John Parkinson of Lincoln's Ini 

 was afterwards used as a saw-mill. 1 ' The 

 house and water-wheel still remain and 

 the name survives in Paper Mill Lane, 

 Paper Mill Meadow and Paper Mill 

 House. The almshouses at the south 

 end of the village were originally part 

 of the outbuildings of Standon Work- 

 house, which was disused after the Poor 

 Law Act of 1834, 20 Standon being now 

 included in Ware Union. The railway 

 station on the Buntingford branch ol 

 the Great Eastern railway was opened 

 in 1863. 



About half a mile east of the village 

 on the high ground near Well Pond 

 Green is a farm called Standon Friars, 

 probably the site of the preccpiory of 

 the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem 

 which was established at Standon after 

 the church and rectory manor had been 

 granted to them by Gilbert de Clare 

 (see rectory manor)." The names of 

 the adjacent fields, Knights Spring, 

 Knights Leys, Friars Lawn, &c, suggest 

 this. The farm-house is modern, but 

 among the out-buildings is a large late 

 16th-century barn. It is built on 

 dwarf walls of old thin bricks, and is 

 of timber, weather- boarded ; the roofs 

 are tiled. A small wing of the same 

 date projects at the south end, on its 

 eastern side. The large barn measures 

 internally about 144 ft. b y 29 ft., and 

 is divided into nine bays by dwarf 

 walls of brick projecting about 7 ft. on 

 either side internally, and carrying the 

 main posts of the heavy roof trusses. 

 There are no remains of any older 

 buildings, but in the orchard and 

 meadow adjoining the farm buildings 

 on the north are some ditches and 

 cuttings which may mark the site of a former house. 

 The Hospitallers also had a grange at Papwell on the 

 west side of the parish (see under rectory manor). 



Weever writing in 1651 says that there was 'a 

 little religious fabric of Austin Friars' near Sir 

 Ralph Sadkir's house, a cell to the priory of Clare in 

 Suffolk.^ He evidently refers to Standon Friars, 

 but confuses it with the chapel of Salbourne or Sale- 

 bourne founded as a hermitage by Richard de Clare 



rail, /for. of Standon, 



i. S. (Herts. Co. Rec), ii, 150-2. 



ormation from Mr. J. A. Brown. 



H Sai. R. (He 

 15 Infonnatior 

 "Ibid. 



from Mr. J. Chapman. 

 ti.Co.Rcc.),ii,439,44o. 

 u from Mr. J. Chapman. 



350 



" See article on Religious Ho 



V.C.H. Hen,. '„, Human remain! 



lately been found near Standon Friir 



Attcitnt f antral Manum. 593. 



