Find Spot record 2402/0/20 - Medieval building remains, Churchfield

A later 12th century stone window head found in 1955

{1} Lying against the eastern wall of the farmhouse is a well preserved stone window head with running saltire ornament in the Transitional style of the later 12th century, found just north of the site in 1955.

{2} A window head has also been found. It consists of a semicircular tympanum-shaped stone with ribbed tooth decoration round the perimeter, and a rebated vesica-opening in the spandrel between the heads of two pointed lights; these lights are chamfered and terminate on involuted capitals and responds, and at the apices are pierced lugs for vertical bars. It is probably late 12th-century and of secular origin. Some fragments of cylindrical shafts have also been recovered.

{3} Deserted vill of Churchfield. Large piece of a C14th window at Farm. Work and article by A.E. Brown. DNH Database: Oundle/Site 7

<1> Brown A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Medieval), p.22 (checked) (Article). SNN26725.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.18 site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<3> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, Oundle/Site 7 (Database). SNN102279.

<4> Historic England, FRAGMENT OF WINDOW TRACERY AT PRESENT FARMHOUSE,FROM EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH OR SUBSTANTIAL DOMESTIC BUILDING (12TH CENT.), BB73/01297 (Archive). SNN114882.

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