A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



=play under. In the south-east corner is a piscina 

 with a poiuted he.id and splayed edge ; the bowl is in 

 a projecting part of the sill. A moulded string-course 

 on the inside wall at the sill level is broken only by 

 the blocked north door, which has a pointed arch of 

 two moulded orders of 14th-century date. 



The windows in the south aisle are similar to those 

 in the north, the section of the inner label in the 

 windows in the south wall being different. The 

 east window, which opens into the modern organ- 

 chamber, is unglazed. The stair to the rood-loft is 

 placed in the north-east corner of the aisle ; the 15th- 

 century four-centred doorway is set in a splay in the 

 aisle; the upper doorway to the rood-loft, also with a 

 four-centred arch, opens into the nave. In the south 

 wall near the east end is a raid-i+th-century piscina 

 with pointed head and moulded jambs. The wall 



is a two-light window with traceried head. The tower 

 is finished with an embattled parapet and a small 

 leaded spire. 



The font has an octagonal basin, round which are 

 carved in relief two rows of continuous foliage, prob- 

 ably of early 1 3th-ccntury work ; the stem is modern, 

 but the original bases of detached shafts remain. 



All the other fittings are modern. 



In the organ-chamber is a large chest bound with 

 many iron bands and with six handles ; it is probably 

 of 16th-century date. Another chest, in the vestry, 

 bears the letters R.S. and the crest of the Sadleir family. 



On the north side of the chancel is a large marble 

 monument to Sir Thomas Sadleir, who died in 1606, 

 and Gertrude his wife. Their recumbent effigies lie 

 under a semicircular canopy supported by columns ; 

 above the cornice are their arms. The knight it in 



string carried round t 

 to the west of this a 



The 14th- 

 arch of two 

 inner arch h 

 The souih p 



The 



ch for 



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.ffin 



itury south doorwa 

 lulded orders, with 

 ig a moulded label 



porch has a pointed 



the label. A little 

 ogee-arched recess 



has a pointed 

 richly moulded 

 ind head stops. 



ru .v„ ..« „ |wtuicu tmiaiiw moulded 



rchway which has been repaired. The side windows 

 are filled with modern tracery. The porch is of 15th- 

 century date. 



The south-east tower is of three stages, with door- 

 ways on the north and west sides. The second stage 

 is pierced by loops. In each face of the belfry stage 



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armour and the lady clad in along robe with ruff"; 

 in front arc the kneeling figures of a son and daughter. 

 On the south side of the chancel is the monument 

 to Sir Ralph Sadleir, who died in 1587. His recum- 

 bent effigy, in armour, lies in an arched recess, above 

 which is a cornice supported on Ionic columns ; in 

 front of the base are the kneeling figures of three sons 

 and four daughters ; above the cornice are his arms. 

 Above the tomb, on iron brackets, are two helmets, 

 a sword, stirrups, halbert and spurs, also a long standard 

 pole, bound spirally with strip iron, said to have been 

 captured by Sir Ralph at the battle of Pinkie"; 

 the banner itself is modern, the old one having dropped 



!: This 



ark (see Ii/us. Lmd. News, 

 851), There is a legend that it 

 pole of the Royal Standard of 



Walter Scott i Q State Pater, and Letter, 

 of Sir R. Sadlar [ed. A. Clifford, iSoo], 

 p. x : J, and Lifi and Time, of Sir K. Sadleir 

 by F. Sadleir Stoney [1877], 112). 





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364 



instrument for stringing 1 erost-boir, 

 which v.ere over Sir Ralph 1 * tomb, and a 

 piece of horse armour which had hunj 

 over Sir William CviFi n'a, are no» in the 

 possession of Rev. Franc Sadleir. Infor- 

 mation from Mr. T. U. Sadleir. 



