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St James

St James

Connaught Park

Hertfordshire

Early to mid C13 chancel

Architectural Features

C15 tower

C15 moulded frame to door into N aisle

Tower: 3 stages, pointed arched head to W entrance with C15 plank door with strap hinges, hollow moulded surround, stopped hood mould

Restored C16 window above: 2 foiled lights in a hollow moulded square head

Interior: C13 blank triple arcades to N and S chancel walls, Purbeck marble shafts with moulded caps and bases to chamfered pointed arches with labels

S chancel wall: lancet to E, half lancet over vestry door to centre and remains of late C13 3-light window now opening to organ chamber to W. C15 tower arch, part rebuilt

In place of chancel arch a tympanum over a cambered tie beam carrying the Royal Arms of Queen Anne with diaper surround to nave, to chancel a C17 painting showing the Divine Glory supported by putti and flanking reclining figures

Late C14 or early C15 nave roof: alternate hammer beam and tie beam trusses, arched braces, hollow chamfered wind braces, moulded tie beams, purlins, collars and wall plates

C19 Gothic altar table with figures painted by students of H.Herkomer

Early C17 octagonal pulpit with tester, panelled and richly carved, steps with barley sugar balusters

Brass candelabra in chancel given 1727

Carved organ case and decorated pipes of 1871 to S aisle

Carved double doors of 1906 from S aisle to vestry

Carved timber cross at W end of S aisle by H. Herkomer

Marble font 1874

Patterned encaustic tile floor

C17 floor slab tombs in vestry

Glass: some C17 fragments, E window 1871 by Powell and Sons, W window by Wooldridge.