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St Mary Little Hormead

Great Hormead

Hertfordshire

C11/C12 nave, mid C12 N door, square ended chancel rebuilt in early C13, C18 brick S porch

Architectural Features

Restored in 1888 when E end wall rebuilt and C15 bell turret over W end reconstructed

Old red tile roofs with overhanging eaves

The Chancel has a triple lancet E window c.1888, C15 piscina at SE corner, 2 C13 lancet windows in S wall the W more deeply splayed inside, a priest's door between inserted C.1888, and at W end of S wall a large C15 window of cinquefoiled lights under a square head

2 bay C16 open timber roof with cambered tie-beam, collar trusses, and butt-purlins with arched windbraces

Small rectangular Nave almost entirely Romanesque with narrow C11 door, timber roof of late C11, elaborate mid C12 N doorway and celebrated contemporary door with decorative ironwork decoration, small round headed N window with deep internal splay, and wide C12 chancel arch with depressed round arch, roll moulding, and nook shafts with scalloped caps

S window C15 like that in S wall of chancel, 2-light W window c.1888 in perp style with quatrefoil oculus in gable over

Font octagonal early C14 with panels of blank tracery around bowl

Small carved and painted royal arms 1660 above chancel arch

The S doorway has a round head, chamfered plain imposts, scratch dial and C17 graffiti on exterior with a stoup on E side of door

C12 ironwork of outstanding importance with 2 large figures of interlaced arcs within square borders with surrounding scrolls in side panels, surmounted by a serpentine dragon

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