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

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is nearly square, in perpendicular gothic style, with a double
row of five windows on the sides with pinnacled buttresses
between them ; on the front it has a square tower with cen-
tral door and two windows above, the upper part having win-
dows on the other sides also, with a clock dial in their lower
portions ; the tower projects somewhat from wings on either
side, which fill the angles between the tower and the body
of the building. Each of these wings has pinnacled but-
tresses on its angles and contains a large window in front
with a door on the side and a lancet window above ; the
wings and tower have their tops embattled, and from the
latter rises a small steeple ; the bells, of which there is now
a chime of eight, were also recast, and the organ rebuilt
for the new Church; the total cost was about $100,000.
Before the troubles in the middle of the sixteenth century,
when Thomas and his family were members of this Parish,
the Church contained " several tomb-stones which had brass
effigies and inscriptions upon them, but was robb'd of all, as
the Church of Dovercourt was. . . " Some remains of these
were to be seen in Dale's time (1725). Bloom describes
many of the tablets in the present building and the tombs in
the Church-yard, which is enclosed by a fine iron fence, but
these are of comparatively recent date ; the names upon
the few remaining stones that have been preserved from the
olden time have long been illegible. The only existing relic
of the earlier edifice, of which I have found any mention, is
a broken bowl of the ancient baptismal font, still to be seen
in the northern vestibule.