BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



from the de- 

 ines, to Holy 



together with common (if pasture in the der 

 lands of Hugh de Marines, to Sir John le M 

 son of Sir Nicholas le Moine, 75 

 and by a later agreement John 

 le Moine undertook to find 

 food and clothing and all 

 necessaries for John de Ma- 

 rines and his wife Arnabilia 

 in Moine's own house as long 

 as Marines lived, Marines 

 giving up his life interest in 

 the estate. 76 Shortly after- 

 wards John le Moine, called 

 of Selford, granted his tene- J. 



ment and capital messuage in 

 Westmill, with the rents of 

 his tenants and two parts of the tithe 

 mesne of the late Sir Hugh de M: 

 Trinity, London, 77 and later 

 it appears that Holy Trinity 

 held these lands by the ser- 

 vice of finding ' I saccum earn 

 una 6mi' for Ralph de Tany, 

 and that Ralph held the 

 serjeanty of the king by pro- 

 viding one sergeant as often 

 as the king should go with 

 his army into Wales. 73 This 

 estate probably became united 

 with the rest of the lands of 

 Holy Trinity in the parishes 

 of Westmill and Aspenden. 



The church 

 CHURCH of ST. MART 

 consists of chan- 

 cel 15 ft. by 15 ft., north 

 vestry, nave 41 ft. 6 in. by 

 21 ft., north aisle 42 ft. 6 in. 

 by 12 ft., south porch, west 

 tower 14 ft. square ; all the 

 dimensions are internal. The 

 church is built of flint rubble 

 with stone dressings, and at 

 the south-east angle of the 

 nave is some long-and-short 

 work ; the roofs are tiled. 



The plans of nave and 

 chancel are probably pre- 

 Conquest ; the walls may be 

 of the 13th century, as there 

 are details of that period, and 

 the north aisle was erected 

 earlier in that century ; the 

 chancel arch has details of 

 the middle of the 14th cen- 

 tury, and the west tower is 

 of late 15th-century work. 

 The church was thoroughly 

 repaired in 1875, the "one- 

 work of most of the windows 

 renewed, a south porch and 

 north vestry were added, the 

 chancel and aisle were re- 

 roofed, and all the walls but those of th- 

 refked with flint. 



The three-light traceried window in the > 



75 Anct. D, (P.R.O.), A 10S9. < c Ibid. 10 



WESTMILL 



of the chancel is modern ; a single lancet in the north 

 wall and two in the south are of modern stonework. 

 The south doorway is mainly modern, but the internal 

 jambs are probably part of the original 14th-century 

 work ; above it is a narrow blocked single light with 

 a squarehead of the 13th century, it shows as a recess 

 externally. The 14th-century chancel arch is of two 

 moulded orders, with a label on both sides of the 

 wall ; the jambs consist of three large engaged shafts 

 with rolls between, and have moulded capitals and bases. 

 The south-east external angle of the nave is built 

 of pre-Conquest long-and-short work, but the splayed 

 plinth on which it stands is of later date ; other long- 

 and-short stones have been re-used in a buttress to the 

 north aisle. The north arcade consists of two early 

 13th-century pointed arches with chamfered edges 

 and having labels on both sides ; between the arches 

 is a wide rectangular pier with moulded abaci which 



/er vary slightly in the two arches, and which are cut 



flush with the face of the wall ; beneath the abacus 



all on the east respond is a small plain niche. A modern 



" Ibid, 6184. »* Assize R. 323 (6 Edw. I). 



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