A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



The top stage of the tower is embattled, with tall 

 crocketed angle pinnacles, projecting gargoyles and, at 

 the base of the parapet, a band of quatrefoils. 



The belfry windows are of four trefoiled lights 

 with four-centred heads, each pair of lights, with a 

 quatrefoil over them, being enclosed under an arch 

 ranging with the outer orders of the head. Below 

 the belfry stage are four two-light windows with 

 quatrefoils in the head, and in the stage below these 

 is a square opening enclosing a quatrefoil. The ground 

 stage has a west window of three lights with tracery ; 

 the exceptional detail of its outer moulding has 

 already been noticed. Below it is a doorivay of two 

 continuous moulded orders, and at the base of the 

 tower is a good moulded plinth. 



The roofs of nave, chancel, and north aisle are 

 modern, but the south chapel has a flat roof with 

 moulded beams of the 15th century, and the roof of the 

 south aisle is of the 14th century, of low pitch, with 

 moulded braces and jacklegs against the aisle wall. 

 The north chapel has a plaster ceiling. 



In the east arch of the north arcade is the lower part 

 of a I 5 th-century parclose screen with moulded posts 

 and plain panels from which tracery heads have been 

 removed. There are seven rows of wooden benches 

 in the nave ' with very solid plain ends, their date 

 being given by a shield on the last bench-end on the 

 north side, with thenamcsofrector and churchwardens 

 and the date 163 I. The seats are supported in the 

 middle of their bearing by piecesof 1 5th-century bench- 

 ends, which had buttressed fronts and small animals as 

 finials to the buttresses. In the aisles are I yth-century 

 benches, like those in the nave, and extending west- 

 ward to the same line ; they are fitted with later 

 doors. 



There is a little l^th-century glass with foliage 

 patterns in the heads of the north window of the 

 chancel and the north-east window of the north 

 aisle. 



The font has a panelled oct.agonal bowl and stem, 

 and is a good example of 15th-century date. 



Below the modern south window of the south 

 chapel is a stone slab with a 13 th-century inscription : 



^ Les : cors : sire : Richard : de : Liadone : 

 ►+< e dame : lucte : sa feme : gisent : ici : pricz 

 ►^ pur Ics : ames : ke : Deua : en : eit : mercy 



Richard de Lindone died about 1255. 



In the vestry floor is an incised slab with a figure 

 under a canopy and an inscription in French round 

 the edge, too much broken to be read ; the lines are 

 filled-in with black composition. Two slabs with 

 indents of brasses remain, one ofc. 1330 in the south 

 aisle, with a cross and a figure in the head, the other, 

 c. 1500, set in the north wall of the chancel, showing 

 a kneeling figure with a scroll, and what may have 

 been an Annunciation, and below this a shield and a 

 place for an inscription. 



On the same wall, below the north window, is a 

 slab with a 1 5 th-century inscription with directions for 



^ The last benches arc just cast of the nave doorways, and 

 the rest of the nave westward was probably without seats. 



the keeping of an obit, thus — the first few letters of the 

 inscription being destroyed : 



, . . Robertas Senkcl' quondam Rector iitius ecclesie 

 Anno domini Millcsimo cccc° xj" registratur quod 

 idubus marcij quibus Rector istius ecclesie suet obitum henrici 

 Sampson et Alienore fundatorum cuiusdam cantarie et Robert! 



Sen 

 kel unitoris in capcUa beate marie cum ij denis pulsantibus et 

 una die in qualibet gcptimana dicetur memoria viz Inclina 



domine cum 

 secreto et postcommunione in pcrpetuum pro predictis quorum 



animabus propicictur deus amen. 



The plate consists of a silver cup of 1662, given 

 by Mary Brutnell or Brudenell (and in the inscription 

 on her monument in the church called a ' communion 

 chalice,'), a cup ol 1777, and a cover paten of 1776, 

 fitting neither cup; an alms-dish of 1772; a 

 plated fl.igon, and a pewter plate. 



There are four bells : the treble and tenor by 

 Thomas Norris of Stamford, 1640, the third by 

 T. Eayre of Kettering, 1 749, and the second of the 

 15th century, possibly from a Nottingham foundry, 

 inscribed in black letter smalls : 



PERSONET HEC CELIS DULCISSIMA VOX GABRIELIS 



The registers began origin.nlly in 1 58 1, but nearly 

 all the first page has been cut out. Book i now con- 

 tains baptisms from 1598 to 1652, burials from 1583 

 to 1653 (in both cases the entries after 1646 are very 

 fragmentary), and marriages from 1578 to 1646. Book ii 

 contains baptisms from 1650 to 1699, marriagrs 

 and burials from 1653 to 1699. Book iii baptisms 

 and marriages from 1700101741 and burials from 

 1699 to 1 74 1. Books iv, V, vi, and vii contain 

 baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1742 to 18 12. 



nu jDiT'ira Richard Garford by will, dated 

 24 May, 1070, left three messu.iges, 

 being Nos. 3, 4 and 5, Saint Olave's, Hart Street, 

 Crutched Friars, London, of which the rents were to be 

 used, after deduction of 6s. Sd. for a yearly sermon on 

 the Sunday after Michaelmas, for bringing up and 

 apprenticing four poor children. This property is 

 let on a lease for 99 years from Lady Day 1862, at a 

 yearly rent of £7^- The charity was further en- 

 dowed in 1 766 by Brownlow, earl of Exeter, who 

 gave a copyhold house and small garden in Easton 

 for a school and master's residence. On the Easton 

 enclosure in 18 1 8 an allotment was made to the school 

 trustees. A sum of ;^6oo consols also is held by the 

 official trustees in trust for this charity. 



Tenements and lands ' appropriated under ancient 

 deeds to the reparation of the church and highways, 

 the relief of the poor inhabitants, and the common 

 profit of the town ' are called the town estate, and the 

 rents are applied in aid of the poor's rate. In 1868 

 there was also a sumofj^327 5/. 412'. consols arising 

 from the sale of certain houses belonging to this trust. 



The church estate produced £^o 1 js. and is used 

 for church purposes. 



The Benefaction Fund consists of £81 is. id. 

 consols, held by official trustees, arising from various 

 donations, the interest of which is distributed annually 

 among the poor in fuel. 



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