A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



The whole of the building is faced with rubble 

 and has low-pitched leaded roofs behind plain and 

 battlemented parapets. InternaUy, except in the 

 chancel and chapels, where the plaster remains, the 

 waDs have been stripped. 



Of the 1 2th centur}' fabric a fair amount of walling 

 remains at the east end of the nave and west part of 

 the chancel, the arches to the chapels and transepts 

 having been cut through the earlier walls. Archi- 

 tectural features, however, are scanty. The top of 

 a round-headed window remains over the arch between 

 the chancel and north chapel, and the inner arch of 

 the blocked north doorway of the chapel appears to 

 be of this date, but if so it is not in its original place, 



probably indicates that there was a projecting vice 

 or staircase turret at the north-west corner of the 

 tower,** which would stand within the aisle until the 

 tovver was demolished, and thus account for the 

 different spacing of the arcade on that side. 



The chancel has a five-light east window with 

 perpendicular tracery and a roof of four bays. In the 

 south wall are two 13th century windows, each of 

 two trefoiled lights and quatrefoil plate tracery, 

 lengthened in the 15th century by their heads being 

 raised, and there is a similar window in the north 

 wall. The plain trefoiled piscina recess is original, 

 but the three sedilia west of it, arranged in ascending 

 order, were made in the 14th century, and have ogee 



■ 120 Century 



[111132 Century 

 OI4™Cent.cI340-5 

 ^ 14 111 Century late 



□ I511JCE.NTURYCI485 



S 162 Century 



□ Subsequent &. Modern 



SovLE OF Feet 



Plan of Oundle Church 



the position of the vnndow indicating that there was 

 no chapel here in Norman times.*' The south-west 

 quoining of the original south transept at its junction 

 with the aisle is still visible, and portions of early 

 masonry in all probability remain at the angles of 

 both transepts, and possibly at the west end of the 

 nave.** The position of the west arch of the central 

 tower seems to be indicated by corbels which remain 

 in the walls, and the 12th century plinths of the chancel 

 arch and of the responds of the north and south 

 arches of the crossing remain below the present 

 bases. The longer masonry pier at the east end of 

 the 13th century nave arcade on the north side 



cinquefoiled arches with crocheted hoods and finials 

 on detached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. 

 The responds of the arches between the older western 

 part of the chancel and the chapels have rounded 

 capitals with good early 13th century mouldings and 

 bases with deep water moulds. The arch on the 

 north side is segmental in form and cuts into the 

 sill of the Norman window ; that on the south side 

 is pointed, with two chamfered orders, and retains 

 traces of colour. The west arches of both chapels 

 opening into the transepts are of two chamfered 

 orders and the capitals of the half round responds 

 have nail-head ornament much renewed. The arch 



"The chamfered itring in the north " Ahience of bonding between the been deilroyej when the tower wai joined 



aiile and a fragment of itring in the nave and aiile walli «hows th.it the 12th up to the nave. 



louth wall of the louth chapel appear century church wai aiilcleti ; but all the " Reaioni for this view are itatcd bjf 



alio to belong to the 12th century original maionry at the west end may have Mr. A. B. Whittingham in Smalley Law, 



building. op. cit. 17. 



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