Listed Building: Church of St. Mary (11/21)

Church. Early C13 and C14. Chancel rebuilt 1840, other alterations c.1880 by E.B. Law. Coursed squared ironstone and ironstone ashlar, lead roofs. Chancel, aisled nave, south porch and west tower. 3-light window to south aisle, C14 has hood with head stops and Intersecting tracery (renewed). Two 2-light windows east of porch, C14, have hoods with head stops, (those to west are re-cut), and Victorian tracery. C14 south porch has entrance arch with continuous mouldings and double plank doors. Inner doorway C13, has jamb shafts with bell capitals, moulded arch and hood stops carved with leaves, probably recut C19. 6-panel double door, C18. Victorian window to west of porch and in west wall of south aisle. C13 tower of 3 stages with crenellated parapet. Perpendicular bell openings of 2 cusped lights with transom. Windows to north aisle Victorian. Interior: Chancel arch C19. Early C13 three-bay arcades extended one bay to west on either side of the tower in the C14. Easternmost piers are round with bell capitals. Octagonal piers to west, that to north has scalloped capital, that to south has capital with broad flat leaves. Victorian hood mould with large head stops. C13 tower arch with triple chamfered arch and jambs. Single chamfered arch to south and north. Decorated tomb recess in south aisle has arch with ballflower decoration and jamb shafts with foliage capitals. C14 piscina with moulded arch, at south east end of aisle. 3 windows in south aisle have jamb shafts with bell capitals. Roofs C19. Font, octagonal, dated 1662. Fleur-de-lys decoration. Lid with scrolls and finial, probably also C17. Bench ends in nave have reused medieval tracery. Large monument to D'Anvers family in the chancel, erected 1790 for Meriel D'Anvers, carved by Thomas Burnell and Sons of London. Pink and white marble sarcophagus with urn flanked by standing cherubs in front of large grey obelisk. Oval inscription plaque at base. Wall monument in north aisle to Judith Rye died 1698. Grey and white marble oval inscription plaque framed by cherubs heads and palm fronds and surmounted by urn and doves with large winged skull at base. High quality carving. Wall monument in south aisle to the Rev. James Weston-Harding, died 1837, signed by M.W. Johnson of London. White marble with draped urn. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.171-2).

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