. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED The parish church of ST. MARY CHURCHES is built of flint rubble with stone dressings; the chancel is roofed with tiles and the nave with lead. The church consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, north vestry,- west tower and south porch.*0 The nave is the oldest part of the present structure and probably dates from the izth century. In the 13th century the chancel was either enlarged or wholly rebuilt. The west tower was added about 1480, and the south porch probably in the 18 th century. The north aisle and
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED The parish church of ST. MARY CHURCHES is built of flint rubble with stone dressings; the chancel is roofed with tiles and the nave with lead. The church consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, north vestry,- west tower and south porch.*0 The nave is the oldest part of the present structure and probably dates from the izth century. In the 13th century the chancel was either enlarged or wholly rebuilt. The west tower was added about 1480, and the south porch probably in the 18 th century. The north aisle and north vestry date from 1887, when the church was restored throughout. The original 13th-century roll-moulded east win- dows of the chancel are replaced by a window of , about 1500 of three cinquefoiled lights ; but the interior jambs with part of the arch are still visible on either side of the existing window. In the north wall are two windows, probably of the 13th century, with a modern window be- tween them. The doorway in the north wall is of the 12th century, moved to its present position from the north wall when the north aisle was built. In the south wall the easternmost window is a plain single light of the 13th century, and the westernmost is of about 1500 of three cinquefoiled lights in a low two- centred head. Be- tween them a door- way and window above it, both blocked and only visible in- ternally, are of the 13 th century. The piscina in the south- east corner is of the 13th century ; it is double and has two detached shafts and a central pillar with moulded bases and capitals supporting two richly moulded half-arches and an intersecting arch, all semicircular. It is surrounded by a square moulded setting. The drains are very deep ; the eastern is eight-foiled and the western a quatrefoil. All the work is original and in excellent condition. The chancel arch is of the late 15th century, of two orders, the inner order supported on half- octagonal pilasters with mo
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