A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



the window is original but much repaired. In the 

 north wall is a lancet, the upper part of which is 

 blocked, while the lower is cut away to make a door- 

 way to the vestry. The corresponding window on 

 the south side has been cut back for the insertion of 

 late 15th-century tracery of two cinquefoiled lights, 

 and the sill also is carried down to form sedilia, to the 

 east of which is a 15th-century piscina with dog- 

 tooth in the head. West of the window is a priest's 

 door, and close to its western jamb a low side window, 

 at the south-west angle of the chancel, with a square 

 head and flat sill ; in its west jamb is a squint from 

 the south chapel. There is another low side window 

 in the north-west angle of the chancel, a lancet with 

 a groove for glass. 



The north vestry is modern, 1889. 

 The nave, 14 ft. 3 in. by 45 ft. 6 in., has a north 

 arcade of four bays, c. 1 1 90, with semicircular arches 

 of two chamfered orders, and clustered piers of four 

 engaged shafts, with square abaci recessed at the 

 angles. The capitals are plain, square above, with 

 the angles rounded off below to the section of the 

 piers. The south arcade has been of the same kind, 

 but only the eastern arch and the springing of the 

 second arch remain. The wall built c. 1500, as 

 before described, on the line of the arcade contains 

 two large windows each of four cinquefoiled lights 

 under a four-centred head. West of these windows 

 is a plain four-centred south-doorway, under a porch 

 with an outer archway of the same description. 

 The details of the responds of the chancel arch 

 are like those of the nave arcades, but the arch 

 has been widened and the responds set back 

 close against the north and south walls, cutting 

 into the east ends of the nave arcades. The arch 

 is pointed, but may have been semicircular before 

 the widening. 



The clearstory of the nave, c. 1 270, with 

 circular windows enclosing a trefoil, exists on the 

 north side only, that on the south having been 

 destroyed, except for part of the first window from 

 the east. 



The south transept chapel, 1 5 ft. by 1 2 ft. 9 in. 

 wide, has an east window of two cinquefoiled lights 

 under a four-centred head, and a south window of 

 three lights with the same detail. In the west wall 

 is a blocked doorway, into which several mediaeval 

 coffin lids are built. 



The tower, 7 ft. 6 in. square inside at the ground 

 level, is of three stages, and sets back at each stage. 

 It had at first a west doorway of which the lower 

 parts of the jambs remain, below a i 5th-century win- 

 dow of two cinquefoiled lights ; this doorway was 

 probably superseded by one on the south, opening to 

 the porch added c. 1 280, which in its turn was blocked, 

 probably on account of the unsafe state of the tower. 

 In the second stage are small lancet windows on the 

 north, south and west ; and on the east a wide arched 

 opening to the space above the tie-beams of the nave 

 roof. In the belfry-stage are windows of two un- 

 cusped lights with pierced heads and labels with masks, 

 and the tower is finished with an embattled parapet. 

 The south side of the tower is strengthened by two 

 buttresses, and there are also diagonal buttresses at the 

 western angles. 



In the roofs of the nave and chancel are some I 5th- 

 cencury timbers ; both have embattled wall-plates and 

 moulded tie-beams with braced collars and wind 

 braces. The other roo& are not ancient. 



The base of the chancel screen remains with 

 moulded posts and plain panels, and in the first 

 bay of the nave on the north side is part of 

 a parclose screen enclosing the bay on the south 

 and west. The moulded head of the screen remains 

 in part. 



In the nave, on the south side, are four moulded 

 benches of the 17th century. 



In the south chapel, beside the squint already men- 

 tioned, are two brackets south of the east window, 

 and in the south wall a plain piscina with a shelf 

 In the east wall of the south porch is a holy-water 

 stone. 



The font is round, on a round stem, with an 

 annulet at the top of the stem. 



There are a few traces of wall painting in the nave : 

 decorative patterns in red. 



In the south chapel is a large monument to Wil- 

 liam Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, lord deputy of 

 Ireland under Elizabeth, with a recumbent armed 

 effigy on a panelled altar tomb. At the four corners 

 are obelisks, and at the head is an upright stone 

 with the Russell coat impaling sable crusilly and a lion 

 argent (Long). On the back of the stone is a black 

 marble panel with the inscription. At the foot of the 

 effigy kneels a small armed figure. On the sides of 

 thealtar tomb are the kneeling figures of three daughters 

 on the north, and three of Lord Russell's brothers on 

 the south, each h.aving a shield with their marriage 

 impalements. Above their heads are painted modern 

 inscriptions giving their names. Margaret Russell 

 has chequy or and azure a fess gules (Clifford) ; 

 Elizabeth, sable three towers argent ; and Anne, or a 

 lion vert with a forked tail (Sutton). Edward 

 impales or on a chief gules three garlands or 

 (Morrison) ; John, a badly-painted coat which should 

 be or a chevron checkered gules and azure between 

 three cinquefoils gules (Cooke of Giddea Hall) ; and 

 Francis, argent a chevron vert between three hunting 

 horns sable. 



In the nave floor is a broken slab of the early 

 part of the 14th century with a cross and part 

 of an inscription in French : the name and date 

 are missing. 



The plate consists of a silver communion cup and 

 cover paten of 1717, a paten of 1 7 19, and a brass 

 alms basin given in 1889. 



There are three bells, the treble inscribed 'multi 

 voCATi PAi'ci ELECTi 1619,' the second by Tobie 

 Norris of Stamford, 1 634, and the tenor by Warner, 

 i860. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms 

 from 1563 to 1 77 1, burials from 1562 to 1772, 

 and marriages from 1563 to 1754; ^^^ second, 

 baptisms and burials from 1773 to 18 12; the 

 third and fourth, marriages from 1754 to 1813. 

 There are two books of churchwardens' accounts, 

 the first from 1663 to 1703, the second from 1 7 16 

 to 1803. 



The tithe map and award, dated 1 5 February, 

 1839, is in the custody of the rector. 



The Rev. Thomas Woolsey, rector 

 CHARITIES of Thornhaugh-cum-Wansford, left by 

 will of 26 March, 1707, £^^0 for a 

 schoolmaster for four poor children. This, together 

 with j^20 of sundry other donations, was laid out in 

 land, now consisting of 4 acres 2 roods 20 perches in 

 Maxey, and I rood 6 perches in Newborough, pro- 

 ducing £6 8a 8</. The official trustees hold 



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