Building record 5432/2/1 - Church of St. Peter & St. Paul

St Peter and St Paul's Church was built in the 13th and 14th centuries and was restored in 1879. The south porch was added in 1883 and the organ chamber in 1889. Built of coursed squared ironstone, with slate roofs to the nave and organ chamber, copper roofs to the south aisle, with the rest of the roofs of plain-tile. The church consists of a nave, chancel, organ chamber, south aisle, south porch and west tower.

{1} Church. C13th and C14th, restored 1879; south porch of 1883, organ chamber of 1889. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof to nave and organ chamber, copper roof to south aisle, otherwise plain-tile roofs. Nave, chancel, organ chamber, nave, south aisle, south porch, west tower. 2-bay chancel has 3-light Decorated east window with hood mould. Blocked door to south and 2-light Decorated south window with hood mould; also small blocked window or reset piscina with cusped ogee-arched head. Two offset buttresses. Chamfered plinth to east end and stone-coped gable with kneelers. Organ chamber to north has pair of cusped one-light windows on north side. Nave has blocked north door with large stone lintel and keyblock on imposts. 2-light Decorated windows to north with hood moulds. 4-window clerestory to south with 2-light leaded casement windows to south-east and south-west (with timber lintels) either side of pair of one-light leaded windows with chamfered stone surrounds. Plain stone-coped parapets. South aisle has 3-light Decorated east window with hood mould with renewed tracery and ogee-moulded surround. 2-light straight-headed windows to south with ogee-arched heads and ogee-moulded surrounds. South door has double sunk quadrant mouldings in porch of 1883 with red sandstone dressings. Diagonal buttresses, chamfered plinth and hollow-chamfered stone eaves; stone-coped half-gables. 3-stage west tower has west door with sunk quadrant-moulded j red head and hood mould. Small lancet windows to west of middle stage and to gables of saddleback roof. 2-light bell-openings with Y-tracery and hood moulds. Plain stone-coped parapets to north and south and diagonal buttresses. Interior: chancel has piscina with crocketed nodding ogee-arched head. Dado to sanctuary of cut-down C18 panels with 2 cut-down early C17 carved panels and C15 tracery heads probably part of former screenwork. Two image brackets flank east window. Simple Perpendicular pews in chancel from Eydon Church (Pevsner). Nave has 3-bay south arcade with octagonal piers and polygonal responds, capitals and double-chamfered arches. South aisle has ogee-arched piscina. Triple-chamfered tower arch dying into plain chamfered piers. C19 roofs throughout. C19 stained glass east window to chancel and aisle. Royal arms of George III oil on board, painted by J. Collins, 1813. Commandment Board, oil on canvas, in tower.

{11} Undated photo;

{12} (SP60975253) Church.

{13} [Former list description] The Church of St Peter and St Paul at Maidford is a fourteenth century small stone building, with later restoration.

{16} Painting, sketches, drawings, lithograph, plans, measurements;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/93 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.301 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> 1928, Kelly's Directory (1928), (unchecked) (Trade Directory). SNN104681.

<6> 1987, Letter re: Lowering of Ground Level During Floor Re-Laying, (checked) (Correspondence). SNN57279.

<7> Gotch Pearson, 1987, Miscellaneous Plans of Repair Work, (checked) (Plan). SNN57280.

<8> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.249-50 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77325.

<9> Glynne S., 1859, Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne, (unchecked) (Manuscript). SNN39492.

<10> Richmond H., 1988, Survey of Northamptonshire Parish Churches, (unchecked) (Unpublished Report). SNN1195.

<11> Photographs of buildings in Maidford (Photographs). SNN112797.

<12> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), OS 6" 1958 (Map). SNN112944.

<13> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Ministry of Housing and Local Government List Towcester Rural District, 1949, p. 12 (Report). SNN112993.

<14> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, District of South Northamptonshire, 14/12/1987 (Report). SNN112993.

<15> Undated, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Maidford, BF107367 (Archive). SNN113784.

<16> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/179/1-6, 8-26 (Archive). SNN115.

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