BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



point IS 3 ft 



..,.,., ,, ,. L . .n thickness. The gateway is probably 

 of early 17th-century date, but some old materials 

 may have been re-used in its construction. 



Widford Mill, mentioned in the conveyances recited 

 above, was situated just outside Widford in the parish 

 of Ware, close to the site of old Bla lies ware. 37 It 

 was pulled down about twenty years ago. There was 

 an earlier one, which seems to have been within the 

 parish of Widford, the site of which is probably 

 marked by Mill Mead on the south side of the river 

 close to the flood-gat es. ! " 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCH BAPTIST con- 

 sists of chancel 

 21 ft. by 18 ft., small north 

 organ chamber, nave 4.3 ft. 

 by 18 ft. 6 in., north vestry, 

 south porch, and west tower 

 11 ft. square, all internal 

 dimensions. The church is 

 built of flint with clunch 

 dressings, except those of the 

 tower, which are of Barnack 

 stone ; the roofs are tiled. 



A church stood here in 

 the 1 2th century, but the 

 only details of that period 

 still existing are some frag- 

 ments now built into the 

 walls, though portions of the 

 nave walls may belong to the 

 older building. The chancel 

 and west tower are chiefly of 

 14th-century date. During 

 the i;th century the tower 

 arch was reconstructed and 



WIDFORD 



South of the window is the figure of a bishop in cope 

 and mitre, carrying a crazier.' 1 " On the north wall is 

 a figure seated on a rainbow, with a sword placed 

 horizontally above his uplifted hands ; beside it is a 

 small figure of an angel with a Tau cross. There is 

 no chancel arch. 



The only old window in the nave is the most 

 easterly one in the south wall, which is of two cinque- 

 foiled lights with flowing tracery, of about 1350; 

 one other window in the same wall and one in the 

 north wall are of modern stonework. The north 

 doorway, which now opens into the modern vestry, 



erted 



the 

 19th 



chancel. During the 

 century the church 1 

 paired several times, the spire 

 rebuilt, and the organ cham- 

 ber, vestry and south porch 

 erected. 



The three-light window 38 

 in the east wall of the chan- 

 cel is modern. In each of 

 the side walls is a window 

 of two cinquefoiled lights, 





inear tracery, of 



the 15th century. The south 

 doorway of the same period 

 has a four-centred arch, over 

 which is a modern label. In 



the south wall an early I zth- yj l 



century cushion capital set 

 on a shaft now forms a 



credence shelf. This fragment of the former church, 

 along with several others now in the nave, was dis- 

 covered near the tower arch during repairs early in 

 the 19th century. In the same wall is a recess 

 4 ft. 3 in. wide, with splayed edge and pointed seg- 

 mental arch, which may have inclosed a tomb ; it is 

 of 14th-century work. On the chancel walls are 

 some remains of distemper paintings. On the east 

 wall, north of the window, is the figure of a knight. 



is of late 14th-century work and has an arch of two 

 moulded orders. The oak door with its ironwork is 

 of the same period. On the north wall outside is a 

 projection which contained the stair to the rood-loft, 

 but no opening is visible inside. The south doorway 

 is similar to that in the north wall ; built into the 

 wall above it are some fragments of a izth-century 

 arch with zigzag moulding. Near the eastern end 

 of the south wall is a small roughly formed piscina 



™ The glas 



icmory of John Eliot. 



[. Braug/ring Hund, facing p. ;6. 



