. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE tower arch is of three moulded orders and moulded jambs, the inner members of which have moulded capitals and bases. The west doorway has a two- centred arch with continuous mouldings, under a square moulded label, with head stops. In each spandrel is a quatrefoiled circle containing a shield ; the shield on the north is charged with a mitre, that on the south with three leopards. To the south of the doorway is a small plain recessed stoup. The tracery of the three-light west window is modern. On each


. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE tower arch is of three moulded orders and moulded jambs, the inner members of which have moulded capitals and bases. The west doorway has a two- centred arch with continuous mouldings, under a square moulded label, with head stops. In each spandrel is a quatrefoiled circle containing a shield ; the shield on the north is charged with a mitre, that on the south with three leopards. To the south of the doorway is a small plain recessed stoup. The tracery of the three-light west window is modern. On each face of the belfry stage is a two-light window with quatrefbil in the head, nearly all in cement. The basin of the font is square, and on each side are five shallow round-headed panels ; it belongs to the nth century and stands on a modern base. Under a window-sill on the south wall of the nave is a brass inscription to John Duke, farmer at Thorley Hall, who died in 1606. There are three bells: the first inscribed 'John pittancer for the garments of the monks in 1336.* Apparently before this date the advowson had been acquired by the Bishop of London," probably in the same way as Saw bridge worth *' (q-?-). If the appro* priation ever took place, the living was a rectory in i535,*6from which the Abbot of Walden received a pension of 53/. 4/. This was surrendered to the Crown in 1538" and granted in the same year to Sir Thomas Audley.*0 The advowson remained with the see of London until the latter part of the 19th century. The patronage is now vested in the see of St. ; Francis Burleigh, presented by Queen Elizabeth during a vacancy of the see of London in 1594, was one of the translators of the Authorized Version of the ; Thomas Turner, who was rector from 1680 to 1689, was in 1688 elected president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where his tenure of office was marked. Thorley Church from the South-east White, James Cramphorn, Churchwardens,


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