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St Katherine

St Katherine

Sacombe

Hertfordshire

Interior: C14 2 centred chancel arch, double chamfered, the outer order dying into wave moulded responds with C19 foliate stops

Architectural Features

Chancel S wall has restored C14 piscina and double sedilia with cusped ogee arches with crocketed finials, hexafoil bowl in piscina

Fixed to pulpit is C17 iron hour glass holder

Inscription with consoles at base of tapering black marble slab with low relief allegorical female figures, one standing with upraised arm, the other kneeling and weeping, pedimental head with ante fixae and acroterion

Stone epitaph to J. Meriton, d.1669, with richly carved surround, scrolled jambs with festoons, cherub at base, scrolled head with skull

In one sedile are reset brass inscriptions to J and E. Dodyngton, d.1537 and 1544

In vestry W wall a reset marble epitaph to Sir T. Rolt, d.1710, 'Agent of Persia and President of India'. In N wall an C18 cherub from base of another monument