The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

102 The English Ancestry of
support was taken away by Elizabeth in the fourteenth year
of her reign."
The Church, dedicated to All Saints and usually called
" All-Hallows," was built by Alberic De Vere. It consists
of a nave, one pace with the chancel, all tiled, and is in the
Early English style with later insertions. There is a south
porch and a western tower, square and massive, which con-
tains five bells, the treble bell having the motto
On the north is a modern vestry. The exterior has been
liberally coated with plaster, so that the structure of the
walls is concealed. Owing to its great age, it nearly collapsed
in the seventeenth century, at which time many heavy but-
tresses were built to preserve it from falling ; indeed the
whole building was restored or greatly modified by Sir
George Whitmore, in 1615. The nave has two windows on
the north and south, and is also lighted from the tower,
which has its newel-stair on the northern side ; the chancel
has two plain perpendicular windows on the north and the
same number on the south, and there is a modern flamboyant
window in the east wall. The roof is of the king-post type,
but the rafters were concealed by a plaster ceiling when the
description was written from which I have quoted. The
font is an interesting specimen of ancient perpendicular
work, with sunken panels of tracery and geometrical pat-
terns ; it has an octagonal bowl set diagonally on a square
base, with shafts at the angles and fluted panels between.