A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



side the chancel opens to the chapel by a 15th-century 

 arcade of two arches, and on the south by a similar 

 arcade of tliree arches, all of two moulded orders on 

 piers composed of four attached slufts with separate 

 capitals and bases. The north chapel is about 28 ft. 

 long internally by 18 ft. 6 in. wide, and has a five- 

 light east window and two three-light windows in the 

 north wall with three-centred heads, cinquefoiled 

 lights and transoms ; all are restorations. In the south- 



I5th-century work of three bays, the principals of 

 which are increased in depth and connected with the 

 wall-pieces by braces, with solid spandrels carved in 

 low relief. 



Both chapels are separated from the aisles by 

 moulded arches, and the chancel arcades are filled 

 with modern screens. There is also a modern screen 

 between the north chapel and the aisle. 



The nave arcades follow the design of those of the 



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east corner is a cinquefoiled piscina, and in the east 

 wall, north of the altar, a niche for a statue. The roof 

 is of two bays, with good carved tie-beams. 



The south chapel, sometime known as ' Mr. 

 Sawyer's aisle,'"* is about 38 ft. long by 21 ft. in 

 width, and is faced with ashlar. It is divided into 

 three bays, and has a five-light cast window, and three 

 four-centred windows of three liglits on the south, 

 with Perpendicular tracery, but no transoms. The 

 rood-screen crossed the whole church, and the stair- 

 way to the loft, with lower and upper doorways, 

 is in the south-west corner of the chapel, but no part 

 of the screen remains. In the north-west corner, 

 higli in the wall, is the doorway to the chancel Kift, 

 and below it a consecration cross within a roundel. 

 TiiC roof of the chapel is a very beautiful piece of 



chancel, with clustered columns of four attached 

 shafts and well-moulded arches. The windows of the 

 aisles are all of three cinquefoiled lights, with four- 

 centred heads and embattled transoms, but the west 

 window of the north aisle is higher and narrower 

 than the corresponding window on the south side.^ 

 At the east end of both aisles there were altars against 

 the screens, the aumbries in connection with which 

 remain, and in the north aisle a niche for a statue. 

 Tlic early 14th-century north doorway has a moulded 

 arch and jamb shafts, with moulded capitals, but the 

 bases are hidden ; the door bears the date 1682. 



The porch is set at an oblique angle, a position 

 accounted for by the ancient entrance to the church- 

 yard, with which it is in line." It is of two stories, 

 with low-pitched gable, access to the chamber being 



" From 16th-century Kettering wilU 

 it appciri there were chaprli of St. John 

 the Hjptiit, probably that on the luuth 

 ■ide ; a Lady chapri with a tabernacle or 

 niche for the figure of the Virgin, which ii 

 probably repreicnted by the remaini of 



the niche in the nortli chapel ; and the 

 chapel of St. Kalherine which may have 

 been at the eait end of the nnrtii or south 

 aisle. There were aWo gilds of St. John the 

 Haptist.Our Lady, and the Holy Sepulchrr 

 (Hull, op fit. Supplement, 21, 22.) 



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" Over the west end of the south aisle 

 is a panel with the names of the church- 

 wardens and the date 1746, probably the 

 year in which the west hay was refaced 

 in ashlar. 



'■" hillings, op. cit. 1 1. 



