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deeply splayed jambs ; the splayed sill appears to 

 have been lowered. The north doorway has a round- 

 headed arch of two orders with edge-rolls ; the shafts 

 and scalloped capitals are restorations. The window 

 of three cinquefoiled lights in the west wall is modern, 

 as are also the south arcade and aisle, In the 

 south wall have been reset the inner jambs of a 

 12th-century window and also portions of a single 

 splayed pointed south doorway, which is mainly of 

 13th-century date. The nave roof retains its 15th- 

 century moulded and embattled tie-beams and other 

 timbers. The hexagonal panelled pulpit is of early 

 17th-century date. 



The font has a large cylindrical bowl of the 

 12th century ; it has four large and four small 

 rectangular panels surrounded by 3 cable moulding. 

 In the centre of each of the larger panels is a leaf 

 ornament ; the smaller are carved with bands of leaf" 

 ornament. The upper part of the font has a border 

 of leaves, the base is modern. 



Over the communion table is a painting of the 

 'Last Supper,' attributed to Jacopo Palma ; it was 

 presented to the church in 1797 by Sir Abraham 



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ofregula, 



a village near Verona which had been suppressed. 37 



In the chancel is a large marble monument to 

 William Purvey, 1617, and Dorothy his wife, with 

 recumbent effigies ; over them is a canopy flanked 

 by pilasters ; on the cornice are the arms. On the 

 front of the tomb is the kneeling figure of a lady. 

 There are some 17th-century slabs to members of the 

 Sheere arid Tooke families. 



In the chancel is a brass to John Cok, yeoman, with 

 figures of the man, the lower part of which is missing, 

 his wife and nine sons. Above is a small representa- 

 tion of the Trinity, and beneath is a strip of brass with 

 trees and a dog pursuing a hare, and a cock. There are 

 remains of a marginal inscription, the date is about 

 I+70. There are also a brass to Edmond Howton, 

 with the figures of his wife Anne, five sons, and part 

 of an inscription, 1479 ; a brass of a man, his wife, 

 eight sons and four daughters, with shield of arms of 

 Tooke impaling Woodliffe, with no date, but of about 

 i;oo ; an inscription only to John Cleve, rector of 

 Wormley, died 14.04. 



The two bells without date or founder's stamp are 

 apparently modern. 



The communion plate consists of a flagon, 1625, 

 a pewter almsdish, 1699, a cup and paten, 1873, and 

 another paten. 



The registers before 1812 are as follows : (i) bap- 

 tisms from 1674 to 1783, burials 1676 to 1783, 

 marriages 1685 to 1753 ; (ii) baptisms from 1783 

 to 1812; (iii) burials from 1 783 to i8l2j (iv) 

 marriages from 1754 to 1812. 



A meeting-place for Protestant Dissenters in the 

 parish was certified in 1838. 38 



The church of Wormley with the 

 ADFOWSON manor was in the possession of the 

 monks of Waltham Holy Cross in 

 the reign of Henry II, 19 and it appears to have been 

 retained by the monastery until the Dissolution. In 

 1541 the advowson of the rectory was granted with 

 the manor to Sir Edward North.' From this 

 time the advowson followed the descent of the manor 



WORMLEY 



until 1853, the representatives of the co-heirs of 

 William Woodliffe exercising alternately the right of 

 presentation. 11 The advowson was not included in 

 the sale of the manor in 1853, but was afterwards 

 sold to Horace James Smith- Bosanquet. He con- 

 veyed it in 1881 to Henry Jeffreys Bushby, and it 

 thus became reunited to the manor." 



The old chapel or oratory which was known as 

 'the Chapel of St. Laurence in the Busshe of 

 Wormley ' lay apparently in the parish of Cheshunt." 

 In 1670 Thomas Tooke by his 

 CHARITIES will directed {inter alia) that land 

 producing £3 a year should be pur- 

 chased, the rent to be applied in providing coats, 

 petticoats and stockings for six poorest boys and girls, 

 and the residue to the most aged men and women. 

 The endowment consists of 6 a. 2/. of land at 

 Cheshunt, let at £18 a year, which is duly applied. 



It is stated in the Parliamentary returns of 1786 

 that an unknown donor gave land for the poor. 

 The property consists of an acre of land now 

 called 'Searangle Corner' in Cheshunt let at £3 

 a year. 



Charities of Richard Tooke and others : By a 

 decree of the Court of Chancery made 5 November 

 1684 (36 Charles II) in a cause between Thomas 

 Gentle, complainant, and Nicholas Bigg and another, 

 defendants, stating that several sums had been given 

 by several persons to the poor of the parish, it was 

 ordered that an estate at Great Parndon in the 

 county of Essex, containing 15 acre;, should be pur- 

 chased for the use of the poor of Wormley. The 

 land i, let at £16 ,,=„. 



In 1710 Sir Benjamin Maddox, bart., by deed 

 conveyed to trustees [6 acres of land called Oakells 

 in Codecote upon trust that out of the rents £6 

 yearly should be paid to the rector of Wormley and 

 the residue be paid to the poor. The land is let at 

 _£n a year. This and the two preceding charities 

 are administered together. In 1909 boots were 

 distributed to eighteen men and twenty-four women, 

 also 90 yards of flannel and I 20 yards of calico. 



In 1688 Richard Woollaston by a codicil to his 

 will directed that lands to the value of £100 a year 

 should be settled for providing £20 a year for clothing 

 in the parish of Woolmer, /30 a year in the parish 

 of Whitchurch, and £50 a year in six parishes in 

 Leicestershire. 



This charity was the subject of proceedings in 

 Chancery at the instance of the Attorney-General 

 against Jonathan Woollaston, the personal represen- 

 tative of John Woollaston, the executor, and others, 

 and in the result, under an order of the Court 

 26 August 1 704, certain lands in the county of Essex 

 were purchased of the value of _£ IO ° a year to be 

 applied for the benefit of the parishes referred to and 

 in the like proportions. 



The property now consists of freehold land at 

 Latchingdon, Essex, and ground rents in Berlin Road 

 and Bromley Road, Catford, in the metropolitan 

 borough of Lewisham, producing .£180 2 year or 

 thereabouts. 



In 1909-10 the sum of £32 was applied in 

 Wormley in suits, serge, flannel and calico to poor, 

 distressed people. 



" Notes of vestry meeting 9 Aug. 1 797, 



mnunicated by Mr. Bushby. 



18 Urwick, Naaconf, in Htm. 559. 



irt. Antiq. M 2. 

 and P. Hen. fill, xvi, 503 

 lan. Iaq. p.m. (Ser. 1), cccUi: 



'3 Information from Mr. 

 * L. and P. Hen. Fill, . 



