Orton Waterville 

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Historical notes about the Community of Orton Waterville

Orton Waterville has given Roman treasures to one Museum at Peterborough, but it keeps a treasure that any museum would love. It is its magnificent Elizabethan pulpit, one of the most exquisite examples we know of what can be done with English oak. Part of its canopy is now used as a reredos in the memorial chapel, but the rest is unspoiled, standing on a small base with panelled sides above a frieze of lovely foliage. It has ornamented arches, richly carved pilasters, tiny faces at the corners, and in its mass of carvings we counted about 30 quaint figures peeping out among garlands, birds, and crowds. One of the loveliest pulpits in England, it is said to come from a Cambridge College.

The church has a little beauty left to it by the Normans, for some of its 13^th century arches have 11^th century bases and capitals. The lofty chancel arch is 14^th century, and the base of the tower is about 700 years old. There is a curious 15^th century corbel showing a man with his hands on his chest, one of the stalls is 16^th century, and there is a door still swinging on its hinges which was here when the pulpit was made. Two chairs with inlaid backs are 17^th century; so is the altar table. The font is 15^th century.

The rectory is 200 years old, with a south wing older still, and in the grounds is a 15^th century dovecot. The manor farm is a fine gabled house and has a lion which has been watching over it since the days of Queen Elizabeth.

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Elizabethan Pulpit

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