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

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parted in the centre, a large flat nose, and grinning mouth
with the corners pointed upward. The outer curve of the
arch which springs from the brackets has a twisted or wreath-
like ornamentation, with small dots or pellets on the alter-
nate bands ; the next lower curve has chevron or saw-tooth
carving, and rests on columns which have simple carved
capitals ; a portion of the span below is filled with masonry,
and then there is a flatter arch with seven rosettes in the
upper and nine in the lower row ; the last arch rests on
square pillars, farther in than the columns. This door is
that on the right of the tower, in our engraving.
The various architectural details are exceedingly good,
says Hadfield, and pure examples of the Norman style of
William II and Henry I, and the building was erected ap-
parently between 1097 and 1 1 28. Five of the windows are
Norman ;
three, early English, and two, perpendicular gothic,
— which our authority thinks indicate additions or restora-
tions at different periods in its history. It has now three
hundred sittings. The Parish Register dates from 1558,
but the entries were mixed until 1620, when the marriages
were separated, and the burials were separately kept after
1652.
The Church was given by Alberic De Vere to the Monks
of Abingdon, in Berkshire, and the Priory of Earl's Colne,
founded by him as a cell to that monastery. The grant was
confirmed by his son Alberic and King Henry I. The great
tithes were appropriated to Colne Priory, 1 March, 1321, by
the Bishop of London, who in 1323 ordained a vicarage here,