
Buckland
Hertfordshire
Chancel, nave and former S Lady Chapel C14 (Salmon in his History of Hertfordshire 1725 recorded the inscription in a chancel window 'Nicholai de Bakeland qui istanc Ecclesiam cum Capella Beatiae Mariae construxit A o Domini 1348'), tower c.1400, S aisle and S porch late C15
Steep red roofs of machine made tiles but metal covering to S aisle and spire to pyramidial tiled tower roof
A small church with tall narrow nave, chancel on different alignment, a broad S aisle incorporating the lower part of the E and S walls of the former Lady Chapel, large square tower embattled with diagonal buttresses, and C15 S porch
Blocked C15 N door, and W door in tower
Wide arch on N has angel musicians as stops to hood mould and stencilled, pine-cased organ central below
Encaustic tile 'carpet' to raised step at E end similar tiles among floor slabs
3-bays nave with 3 2-light tall C14 traceried windows in N wall with head stops to hood moulds inside and outside
C15 blocked N doorway with moulded 3-centred arch
3-bays broad S aisle has trefoil piscina and string course below E window both in the E bay, remaining from the C14 Lady Chapel
3-light C15 cinquefoil windows at E, W, and 2 in S wall
C15 S door with external 4-centred arch of 2 moulded orders under a square head with traceried spandrels
Contemporary fine C15 almost flat timber roof with heavy flat joists, moulded members as wallplates, central purlin, principal and sub-principal cross-beams
Carved foliate bosses along centre at junctions with cross-members
Fittings: Barnack stone font roughly recut on moulded clunch base
drum type C19 panelled wooden pulpit with trefoil piercing on circular moulded fat stone base
3 groups of brasses set on wall behind the alter to Alice Botelet d. 1451, William Langley, rector, d.1478, John Gyll d. 1499, with children
There are stained glass remains of C14 canopy work in 2 N windows of nave