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St Andrew And St Mary

Watton-at-Stone

Hertfordshire

Early to mid C15 rebuilding of an earlier foundation

Architectural Features

Later C15 N chapel

Gargoyles over 2 stage angle buttresses

S porch has inner C15 pointed arch with double wave mouldings

Clocks to W and N. String course to embattled parapet with gargoyles on turret

Aisle roofs are C15 lean-tos with moulded principals and purlins with carved bosses

4 bay N chapel roof is probably early C17, 4 centred arched vault, plastered with moulded ribs, C19 elephant head corbels

Chancel S wall E end C15 piscina and triple sedilia, cusped pointed arched heads, raised and restored

In N chapel is a C15 or C16 oak chest with heavy iron bands, rounded head

Royal Arms of George III over N door

C19 Gothic fittings include reredos, octagonal font, pulpit, lectern, choir stalls, communion rails with ironwork, chapel screen with iron gates, tower screen and seating

Several good brasses

N chapel: Sir P. Peletoot, d.1361, full length figure of knight in a cusped canopy

Sir J. Boteler, d.1514, smaller figure of a knight with 5 shields of arms, below a late C15 civilian in a fur lined coat, possibly the mason who built the church, also fragments to R. Boteler, d.1614, wife and daughter

Chancel: an almost lifesize figure of a priest, mid C15, perhaps J. Brigenhall

N aisle: late C15 pair of figures

N chapel: Sir R. de Graveley, C14 border inscribed in Lombardic script

Sir J. Boteler, late C15, large alabaster slab with incised figures, arms and inverted inscription, various C18 slabs

N aisle: R. de Larabi, C14, border inscribed in Lombardic script

Chancel has various C17 and C18 floor slabs

Wall monuments: N chapel known as Abel Smith chapel has many family monuments including that on W wall to S. Smith and wife, d.1834 and 1835, by Manning, sarcophagus against obelisk with arms, epitaph below

P. Boteler and wife, d.1712 and 1740, marble, 2 kneeling figures, he in contemporary dress, she in mourning, leaning on a pedestal, arms in cartouche above, epitaph below, all in a Gothic niche

C19 stained glass

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