A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



of this period survives. The next enlargement was 

 about the middle of the 13th century, when a south aisle 

 was added, and later in the century, c. 1290, the north 

 aisle was rebuilt, the south arcade reconstructed with 

 the old materials, and the aisle widened. The chancel 

 was rebuilt in its present form about 1370-75, and the 

 porch, clearstory, and tower and spire are approxi- 

 mately of the same date. The vestry is contemporary 

 with the chancel. The chancel was restored in i860, 

 and the rest of the building in 1876, when the north 

 aisle was rebuilt. With the exception of the tower 

 and the west end of the nave, all the walls are plastered 

 internally. 



The chancel has an east window of five cinquefoiled 

 lights with vertical tracery, perhaps a later insertion, 

 and is lighted on the south side by three 14th-century 

 windows each of two trefoiled lights with traceried 

 heads differing in design, and one at the west end of 

 the north wall. The sill of the eastern window is 

 lowered internally so as to form two graded sedilia, 

 on either side of which in the window jambs are 

 ogee-headed niches. The moulded piscina is also ogee- 

 headed and has a fluted bowl. The west window has 

 a transom at the level of the other window sills, 

 which cuts off the lower portion of both lights, one 

 of which** is rebated as a low side window. There is a 

 scroll string all round the chancel externally at siU 

 level. In the north wall is a rectangular aumbry, 

 and a moulded doorway to the vestry,'* and west of 

 this a restored wall recess. In the east wall, north 

 of the altar, is an image bracket. The chancel arch 

 is of two chamfered orders with hoodmould on each 

 side, the inner order resting on carved and moulded 

 corbels. The oak chancel screen was erected in 

 1921. 



The north arcade, as rebuilt in the late 1 3th century, 

 has three pointed arches of two chamfered orders with 

 hoodmoulds, resting at the west end on the square 

 respond and early pier already described. The eastern 

 pier (c. 129c) consists of four attached shafts with 

 moulded capital and base ; at the east end the inner 

 order of the arch is carried on a moulded and carved 

 corbel. The hoods have stops over the piers. The 

 cylindrical piers of the south arcade are c. 1240, but 

 differ in detail. Both have circular moulded bases, 

 and the capital of the western pier is also circular and 

 has nail-head ornament. The eastern pier is of 

 slightly less diameter and has an octagonal moulded 

 capital with pellet ornament, and the base stands on 

 an octagonal plinth. The responds are similar to 

 those of the north arcade and all four piers stand on 

 high square plinths, perhaps parts of the walling of 

 the original church. The arches, as on the north, are 

 of two chamfered orders. 



In the south aisle are three late 13th-century 

 windows of two lights, that in the west wall witli 

 forked mullion and low transom, the bottom lights 

 of which are rebated inside though the sill is over 

 5 ft. above the floor. The window west of the porch 

 is of two trefoiled lights with a cuspcd circle in the 

 head, and the window at the east end of the aisle is 

 of the same type, with an image bracket on either side. 



Next to it in the south wall is a two-light window with 

 14th-century tracery ; its sill is lowered inside to 

 form a seat, at the back of which below the window is 

 a piscina with trefoiled ogee-head and projecting 

 moulded basin carried on a small shaft. The middle 

 window of the aisle is a 15th-century insertion of three 

 lights. The south doorway is modern. 



At the east end of the north aisle is a pillar piscina 

 with moulded basin on three clustered and banded 

 shafts with chamfered base and square plinth ; the 

 recess has a plain ogee head and the bowl is fluted. 

 More to the north is a 13th-century piscina with 

 trefoil headed recess and bowl in the thickness of the 

 wall. There are two image-brackets in the east wall, 

 the window of which is modern ; but with one exception 

 the other windows of the aisle, and the north doorway, 

 are the old ones re-used. The clearstory windows, 

 four on each side, are square-headed and of two tre- 

 foiled lights. 



The tower is of three stages with moulded plinth, 

 diagonal buttresses and a projecting vice in the south- 

 east angle. The two lower stages are blank on the 

 north and south, but on the west there is an ogee- 

 headed window of two lights, the mullion and tracery 

 of which are new, and in the middle stage a circular 

 moulded window with modern ' roue tournante ' 

 tracery. The bell-chamber windows are of two 

 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the head, and the 

 cornice above, from which the graceful broach spire 

 rises, is carved with grotesque heads and birds clinging 

 head downwards. The broaches have small octagonal 

 pinnacles, and there are three sets of spire lights on 

 the cardinal faces. The tower arch is of three 

 chamfered orders on moulded and carved corbels. 

 The doorway to the vice has a shaped and moulded 

 head. 



The late 13th-century font is similar to that at 

 All Saints' church, with octagonal bowl and shafted 

 stem. 



The pulpit and other fittings are modern. 



In the chancel is an elaborate mural monument to 

 Margaret Davenant (d. 1613) with shield of arms, and 

 on the entablature the date of erection ' Anno Domini 

 1616.' 



There is some interesting mediaeval glass. In the 

 western window south of the chancel are figures of 

 St. George and St. Christopher beneath canopies, 

 c. 1290, and with a border of alternate white hounds 

 and yellow hares ; in the top lights of the east window 

 are figures of two priests, one representing Roger 

 Travers, rector, and the other William de Luffwyck, 

 the builder of the chancel, who was rector 1335-80 : 

 both are mentioned by name in inscriptions. The 

 tower window has modern glass commemorating 

 Thomas Fuller. 



There are five bells by Taylor and Co. of Lough- 

 borough, 1903. A former ring of three (the tenor 

 dated 1585, and the second by Thomas Eayre of 

 Kettering, 1724)'" was then recast and a new treble 

 and tenor added. 



The plate consists of a cup, paten, and flagon of 

 1855 ; there is also a plated paten." 



•• The wcit light : the lower hook on 

 the weitern jamb itill rcmalni, and the 

 two bolt hold on the mullion cin itill be 

 traced. The height of the lill above the 



floor ii z ft. 8 in. 

 nil, 379. 



Asi. Arch Soc. Reps. 



•• The vcitry originally wai of two 

 itoriei \ it hat a lingle upper window on 

 the north tide. 



" North, Cb. Bells of Norlhanls. 178, 

 where the inscriptions on the old bells are 

 given, 



" Markham, Ch. Hate of Nortbanls. 6. 



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