A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



way is of two continuous wave-moulded orders. The 

 windows of the south aisle are also square-headed, the 

 easternmost being of three and the others of two cinque- 

 foiled lights, and the doorway is of two continuous 

 moulded orders. Internally there is no trace of either 

 doorway, the blocking masonry being covered with 

 plaster. No ancient ritual arrangements remain in either 

 aisle. 



The clerestory has three plain square-headed win- 

 dows on each side. The north porch' is without but- 

 tresses and has a wave-moulded pointed doorway and 

 low-pitched coped gable with 18th-century finial. 

 The larger south porch has a four-centred moulded 

 doorway and single-light lateral windows. The stone 

 benches are in position but the floor has been removed 

 to allow of access to a heating-chamber. 



The tower is of two stages, the older lower stage 

 serving as an entrance porch. The square-headed west 

 window, like the north doorway, was inserted during 

 the 1868 restoration and represents no ancient feature. 

 A buttress at the south-west angle and one against the 

 south wall were probably added subsequent to the 

 erection of the upper stage in the 14th century. There 

 is no vice. The pointed bell-chamber windows are of 

 two trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the head, and 

 the tower terminates in a battlemented parapet with 

 18th-century angle pinnacles surmounted by iron 

 vanes.^ The wide pointed tower arch is of three square 

 orders towards the nave, on chamfered imposts, the 

 voussoirs being alternately of dark- and light-coloured 

 ironstone. 



The font is modern, with octagonal stone bowl, 

 in the style of the 14th century.^ The oak pulpit 

 is in memory of the Rev. N. T. Hughes, vicar 1892- 



1913- 



The fine alabaster monument, erected 'to the pious 

 memory of Stephen Harvey Esq. [d. 1606] auditor 

 of the Dutchy of Lancaster', his wife (d. 1590), and 

 three sons, stands against the north wall of the chapel at 

 its east end. The kneeling figures of the man and wife 

 together with a shield of arms are above the cornice, 

 below which are three canopied recesses containing the 

 effigies of their sons, all kneeling, the youngest, Stephen 

 Harvey, citizen and merchant of London 'by whose 

 appointment this monument was erected', being in the 

 middle.'* On either side are Sir Francis Harvey, kt., 

 one of the Judges of the Common Pleas (eldest son) 

 who died 1632 and 'lyeth hereby buried', and William 

 Harvey, who died 1633 and was buried at Weston 

 Favell. The arched canopies are supported by columns 

 of black marble, and in the lower part of the monument 

 are inscribed black marble tablets. 



The monument of Sir Stephen Harvey, Knight of 

 the Bath (d. 1630), son of Sir Francis, is against the 



south wall of the chapel, and is of white marble with 

 recumbent figure in the habit of the time.^ 



Within an arched recess in the south wall of the 

 chancel is a table-tomb, the slab of which is without 

 inscription and at present forms a seat. The arch is 

 enriched with Renaissance ornament and is surmounted 

 with the Tate crest.* On the north wall is a large 

 marble monument by Rysbrack with portrait busts to 

 Bartholomew Clarke of Roehampton (d. 1746) father 

 of Lady Bouverie, and Hitch Young (d. 1759) brother 

 to Mrs. Clarke, and in the chancel floor are the marble 

 grave-slabs of Bartholomew Tate (d. 1704) and 

 Mary widow of William Tate (d. 1699). A tablet 

 at the west end of the south aisle records the burial 

 in a vault under the chancel of Benjamin Clarke (d. 

 1765),' and the chancel contains a number of marble 

 tablets to members of the Bouverie family, and one 

 of alabaster to John Augustus Shell Bouverie (d. 1894) 

 and his son Francis Kenelm (d. 1891). In the aisles 

 are a number of memorial tablets of i8th- and 19th- 

 century date, and one in oak in memory of twenty-five 

 men of the parish who fell in the war of 1914-1 8. In 

 the south aisle is an iron-bound chest with three locks. 



There is a ring of five bells, the first, fourth, and 

 tenor dated 1669, the third by Henry Bagley I of 

 Chacombe, 1682, and the second by Taylor & Co. of 

 Loughborough, 1871.' 



The plate consists of a silver cup of 18 10, and a 

 plated paten, flagon, and bread-holder.' 



The registers before 18 12 are as follows: (i) all 

 entries 1 562-1651; (ii) baptisms 1653-1726, mar- 

 riages 1677-1726, burials 1676-1726; (iii) burials 

 1678-1722; (iv) baptisms and marriages 1727-48, 

 burials 1727-50; (v) baptisms 1749-1805, marriages 

 1749-53, burials 1751-1805; (vi) marriages 1754-79; 

 (vii) baptisms and burials 1805-12; (viii) marriages 

 1779-1805; (ix) marriages 1805-12. 



The church and whole tithe was 

 ADVOWSON given to St. Andrew's priory by its 

 founder.'" The priory held the church 

 appropriated to its uses, a perpetual vicarage being set 

 out in 1224," until its surrender. The Crown then 

 retained it until 1874,'- though, on account of its small 

 value, it was in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, not the 

 king.'^ In 1874 it was transferred to the bishop of 

 Peterborough, the present patron.'* 



Delapre Abbey in 1535 paid 13/. \d. stipend to 

 a chaplain to celebrate mass once weekly in the 

 chapel of 'Gore', not otherwise recorded. From its 

 first foundation it gave 21 J. %d. yearly to the poor in 

 money, bread, and fish, and a further 5/. yearly from 

 later benefactions. ■' 



The chapel of St. Leonard probably dated from the 

 foundation of the hospital, and there is a list of chap- 



' The porch is used as a storeplace for 

 tools. 



^ The vane at the south-east angle is 

 surmounted by a cross. 



5 It is of Mansfield stone, the gift of 

 the architect, Robert Palgrave, in 1868. 

 It replaced the 18th-century font now in 

 the churchyard. 



* He died 1636 and was buried in the 

 church of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Billings- 

 gate, London. The monument is described 

 and the inscriptions are given by Bridges, 

 Hht. of Northams. i, 360. 



5 The monument is described and the 

 inscription given in Bridges, op. cit. i, 

 362. Sir Stephen married Mary, only 

 daughter of Richard Murden, of Moreton 



Morrell, co. Warwick, by whom he had 

 two sons and six daughters. He died at 

 the age of thirty-four. There is a shield of 

 arms at the west end of the tomb, the east 

 and south sides of which are against the 

 wall. Under the effigy, on the long side, 

 are the words *Obdormivi — Resurgam*. 



*' It is apparently the monument in this 

 position described by Bridges as of 'free-, 

 stone covered with black marble' to Bar- 

 tholomew Tate of Delapr^ (d. 1704), but 

 the ornament appears to be earlier in date. 



' He was brother of Bartholomew 

 Clarke and had issue two daughters, who 

 married respectively Timothy Rogers and 

 John Heycock. 



8 North, Ck. Bells of Northants. 289, 



where the inscriptions are given. The 

 first, fourth, and tenor are apparently by 

 Henry Bagley though his name is not on 

 them; the tenor has a stop which he fre- 

 quently used. The bells were rehung by 

 A. Bowell of Ipswich in 1910. In 1552 

 there were four great bells and one sanctus 

 bell broken. 



' Markham, Ch. Plate of Northants. 

 144. 



'" Cal. Chart. 1327-41, p. 119. 



'■ Rot. Hug. de tVelles (Cant, and York 

 Soc.), ii, 113. 



■2 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



" Cal. S.P. Dom. 1676-7, p. 343. 



'■• Land. Gaz. 10 July 1874, p. 3437. 



" Valor Eccles. (Rec. Com.), iv, 321. 



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