. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED knebworth cinquefoiled head. The sill is modern. The chancel roof has an oak-panelled wagon ceiling. The north chapel has two square-headed windows, at the east and north, of about 1700, with wooden frames. An elaborate ironwork screen of the same date, set in the arch on the south side, separates the chapel from the chancel. The flat plaster ceiling is of about the same date also. The nave is approached from the north chapel by a. square-headed skew doorway emerging at the north- east corner of the nave. Bes
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED knebworth cinquefoiled head. The sill is modern. The chancel roof has an oak-panelled wagon ceiling. The north chapel has two square-headed windows, at the east and north, of about 1700, with wooden frames. An elaborate ironwork screen of the same date, set in the arch on the south side, separates the chapel from the chancel. The flat plaster ceiling is of about the same date also. The nave is approached from the north chapel by a. square-headed skew doorway emerging at the north- east corner of the nave. Beside it, in the north wall, is a single-light window with modern tracery. Im- mediately above this window is the upper doorway of the rood-loft stair, and the blocked lower doorway with a moulded two-centred arch is visible to the west of the window. To the west of this is a much — repaired two-centred arch, which now leads to a vestry, and west of this is a wide single-light window, head. There are shields in the spandrels, one of which bears the arms of Hotoft : Sable three dragons* heads erect and razed argent. On the north and south sides of the second stage are narrow loops, and in the bell chamber are four windows of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil The nave is seated throughout with a complete' set of 15th-century oak seats, moulded and having rich tracery in the end panels. At the north-east is a high pew with pinnacles at the corners and a pierced cresting. The pulpit is of richly carved 16th-century Flemish panelling, made up in the 18th century. One of the panels is dated 1567. There is similar panelling on the east wall of the nave behind the pulpit. The font is octagonal, of limestone and plainly moulded. It dates from about Knebworth Church from the South-east a modern insertion, which probably marks the position of an earlier two-light window. On the south side are a modern single-light window, a square-headed window of three lights with much res
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