Listed Building: Church of St. Michael (1190408)

Church. Built 1884 by J.P. St. Aubyn at expense of Sir Reginald Loder of Whittlebury Lodge. Coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, plain tile roofs. Chancel, organ chamber and vestry, nave, north and south aisles, south porch. Built in the Decorated style. 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window with geometrical tracery, 2-light windows to south and north-east with quatrefoil tracery in heads, plinth, stone eaves and stone-coped east gable. Vestry and organ chamber has boiler house basement with chamfered doorway to east with segmental hood, and small chamfered rectangular window to north, vestry door with chamfered stone surround and hood mould, 2-light window to south with quatrefoil tracery to head, and one-light window to west with pointed trefoil head. Chamfered plinth, stone ends, stone-coped north gable and brick end stack on stone base. North aisle has one-light east window with pointed trefoil head, a 2-light west window with reticulated tracery and 3-light windows to south with straight heads and ogee tracery. North aisle has similar windows to north and similar west window to that of south aisle. South porch has double hollow-chamfered doorway with hood mould, chamfered south door within chamfered plinth and stone-coped gable. Nave has 4-light west window with geometrical tracery and timber-framed bell turret at west end with ribbed lead-covered base with clock face to south, 2-light bell-openings and shingled spire. Nave and aisles are under same roof and have plinth and stone-coped gables. Pointed windows all have hood moulds. Interior: chancel has stone reredos with mosaic of Crucifixion above altar, and arch-braced collar-truss roof. Similar roof to nave and 4-bay arcades with circular columns, moulded ironstone capitals and double-chamfered arches. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.404; Kelly's, Northamptonshire, 1928).

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