PUTTENHAM, a parish in the hundred of DACORUM,
county of HERTFORD, 3 miles (N. W.) from Tring,
containing 112 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £10. 1. Of., and in
the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary: the tower is built of flint and
stone in square compartments, and the ceiling of the
nave, which is of carved oak, is supported by figures
representing some of the Apostles; there are on the
cross' beams other figures habited as ecclesiastics.