St Bartholomew (church Of England)
Wigginton
Hertfordshire
Late C13 chancel and nave, large C15 chantry chapel separate at W for Weedon family, N aisle, NE vestry and archway in to W chapel 1857-61 by William White in Early English Style, restoration 1881 by R.J.Withers with porch and bell turret, low Church Room linked to W end 1973
Architectural Features
Chancel walls built over rough footings with tile levelling course visible on N and E sides
Steep red tile roofs, pyramidial to square timber bellcote over W end of nave with ball finial and V-pattened metal-clad base
The chancel has a C13 blocked, pointed doorway exposed externally, with inside a C13 piscina with shelf and chamfered arched head at SE, small niches now restored with figures flanking the 3-light restored E window, late C14 square-headed 2-light quatrefoiled N window, similar window on S restored, a simple low-side window at SW, a pointed depressed arch of 2 chamfered orders in N wall has the organ painted in Medieval Style beneath it with the vestry space behind in a gabled projection
Patterned floor of coloured and C19 encaustic tiles
Stained glass windows of 1870's. 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders widened 1881
Taller nave lit from S by 2 2-light tall pointed windows and a small window at SE lighting the pulpit
Open waggon roof of 1881 similar to chancel, but carried down over N aisle opened to nave by an arcade of 3½ bays (½ at W) in C13 style with 2-centred arches of 2 chamfered orders on miniscule circular columns with moulded bases and bell caps
Moulded external hoodmould of pointed C13 S doorway indicates late C13 date
Panelled stone pulpit at SE
A wide pointed arch cut through the W wall of the nave now leads to the C15 W chapel at slightly higher level