. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE A pan of Hailey lay within the lordship of Great The tow Arawdl.' parapet ; th< The church of ST. JOHN BAPTIST tower arch CHURCH stands in the village and consists of a moulded, th hancel 25 ft. by 16 ft., nave 39 ft. by 22 ft. 6 in., west tower \z ft. by 10 ft. 6 in., and vestry ; all internal dimensions. The chancel and nave date from the close of the nth century,10 the west tower was built about 1420-30, the vestry is modem. The church was restored in 1866. The walls are of flint rubble with sto
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE A pan of Hailey lay within the lordship of Great The tow Arawdl.' parapet ; th< The church of ST. JOHN BAPTIST tower arch CHURCH stands in the village and consists of a moulded, th hancel 25 ft. by 16 ft., nave 39 ft. by 22 ft. 6 in., west tower \z ft. by 10 ft. 6 in., and vestry ; all internal dimensions. The chancel and nave date from the close of the nth century,10 the west tower was built about 1420-30, the vestry is modem. The church was restored in 1866. The walls are of flint rubble with stone dressings ; the roofs are tiled. In the north wall of the chancel is a narrow window of the nth century, with deeply splayed jambs both inside and outside ; it is round-arched, but a slight point has been given to the outer arch at some later period. The other windows of the chancel are all modern lancets. The doorway to the vestry in the north wall has a massive 15th-century oak if three stages with an embattled the octagonal timber spire is modern. The f the 15th century; the arch ii er mouldings being continuous, the engaged shafts with moulded capitals ases. The west doorway has a moulded arch 1 square head and traceried spandrels; in the jambs are the holes for the old wooden bar. 'hich is of 15th-century date, has tracery in the head. The v foiled lights under a four-c are of modern stonework. idow is of three cmque- ntred arch ; the mullions second the ! stage ath-v p lights ne with four-cer. tred head. Twt recesses, one on er side of the iast window, now used as sedilia, of modern stone work. There is a modern piscina the south wall ( nth an old basi , part of which been cut away The chancel a rch is round, of. â of the tower. The 1 each face but the east; each face of the belfry stage is a two-light window with traceried head under a four-centred arch, the mullions of which have been repaired. The font is modern. The oak communion table is of early 17th-century dat
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