A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



in the western bay, and the chancel was completed 

 in its present form c. 1270-80. A keel-shaped string- 

 course runs round the whole of the chancel below 

 the windows, and along the aisles to within about 

 20 ft. from the west end. 



About the middle of the 15 th century, the clear- 

 story was added, the porch built, and new windows 

 inserted in the aisles, the walls of which were 

 heightened. The spire is approximately of the same 

 date, perhaps immediately following the clearstory, 

 and the church then assumed its present aspect. 



The chancel has been much restored.*" It has 

 two-stage buttresses of small projection, and a 

 modern five-light east window with geometrical 



with smaller attached shafts at the angles. The 

 west windows of the aisles are modern copies of 

 late 13th-century two-light openings, but all the 

 other windows north and south are four-centred 

 15th-century insertions of three cinquefoiled lights. 

 The clearstory windows, six on each side, are three- 

 centred, and of two trefoiled lights. 



The tower is of three stages, with good coupled but- 

 tresses and moulded plinth. The old stones having 

 been used in the rebuilding, it has lost little or nothing 

 of its original appearance. The doorway on the north 

 side reproduces a 14th-century opening in the same 

 position ; the entrance to the vice-turret in the south- 

 west angle, with its beautiful trefoiled head, has been 



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 Plan of Burton Latimer Church 



tracery, but the other windows, three on each side, 

 are c. 1 280 of two trefoiled lights, with pointed trefoils 

 and cusped circles differing in detail in the heads. 

 There is a scroll string at sill level inside, but no 

 ancient ritual arrangements remain. The 13th 

 century chancel arch is of two chamfered orders, 

 the inner springing from half- octagonal responds 

 with moulded capitals and bases, the capitals being 

 cut back for a much restored and painted 15th-century 

 screen." 



The arches of the three 13th-century eastern bays 

 of the nave arc of two chamfered orders springing from 

 piers of four clustered shafts and from half-octagonal 

 responds, all with moulded capitals and bases. The 

 13th-century north doorway is of a single continuous 

 chamfered order with hood, and retains a 15th- 

 century oak door on which are inscribed the names 

 of ' Ihon Campyon and Ihoan hys wyf.' Tiic lofty 

 porch is open to the roof and has a moulded outer 

 arch with canopied niche above breaking the parapet 

 of the gable. The south doorway is of late 12th- 

 century date with round head of two moulded orders, 

 the outer on nook shafts with carved capitals and 



blocked and an external doorway made. The west 

 window is a widely splayed single lancet with rear 

 arch, and the lower stage is open to the nave by an 

 arch of three chamfered orders springing from clus- 

 tered shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The 

 middle stage has plain arcading of three pointed arches 

 on the north, south and west sides, the middle arch 

 on the west being pierced by a lancet. The double two- 

 light bell-cliamber windows were originally without 

 tracery, but the lights were afterwards trefoiled and 

 a quatrefoil inserted in the head. The battlemented 

 parapet is the same date as the spire, which has two 

 sets of crocketed gabled lights. 



The roofs of the nave and aisles are in the main 

 ancient, with moulded principals and carved bosses, 

 but all the rafters arc new. 



The font is ancient and consists of a plain octagonal 

 bowl and stem on a chamfered base : on the west the 

 stem has a solid projection bringing it in line with the 

 bowl. 



The north aisle wall had formerly a painting, per- 

 haps of the 14th century, representing tlie story of St. 

 Katharine, within a border, but only a fragment now 



"About 1750 a pUiter ceiling wai 

 erected over the ch.incel and the cait 

 end partitioned of! Co form ■ veitr/, a 



doorway bcinj; broken thr'»u;!i the east 

 wall. 



" The icrcen ,wh(ch had been removed 



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W.1S put hack at tlic time of the restoration 

 and a luft added. 



