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- 1. St Mary, Grendon, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church St Mary's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with four-bay arcades. In each arcade the two western bays are 12thc., and the two eastern bays 14thc. The short 12thc. nave seems to have been lengthened eastwards in the 14thc., and the clerestorey was added at that time. There are two doorways: the 12thc. S doorway is elaborate and protected by a porch; the 13thc. N doorway very plain and unprotected. The chancel and its arch are also 14thc. The W tower is 15thc. (money was left for the fabric of the 'campanile' in 1453) and of five storeys, the two lowest with ashlar bocks in alternately brown ironstone and grey limestone courses. Above this the ashlar is newer and appears 19thc. The clock is dated 1862. The nave, aisles and chancel are faced in stone rubble. Romanesque sculpture is found in the W bays of both arcades and the S doorway.
- 2. St Bartholomew, Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church (benefice of Greens Norton with Bradden and Lichborough) Greens Norton is a substantial village in the S of the county, a mile NW of Towcester and less than a mile from Watling Street, the main Roman road running NW out of London. The church is in the village centre. It has a W tower with a spire, an aisled nave and a two-bay chancel. The easternmost bay of the nave is separated from the two western bays by heavy piers which appear to represent the end of an aisleless Anglo-Saxon nave. They include long and short work and carry a cross wall with a blocked, triangular-headed window. A continuous hammerbeam roof over the E bay of the nave and the chancel renders the liturgical divisions of the church ambiguous. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
- 3. St Peter and St Paul, King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church The church has a tall W tower with a slender spire supported by delicate flying buttresses and decorated with pinnacles and crockets. This late 14thc. work, described by Pevsner as 'one of the finest, if not the finest, spire in this county of spires'. It was partly rebuilt in 1898 and repaired in 1968. To the W of the tower is a Perpendicular porch. The nave aisles extend W alongside the tower. The N nave arcade dates from around 1300, and the S arcade has the same tall, spacious proportions, but in this the piers and arches of a 12thc. arcade have been reused. The chancel arch is also c.1300, but the chancel itself is 12thc., with internal wall-arcading, much restored and with arches that are entirely 19thc., and an external corbel table, completely reset. The font is 12thc., simple and unusually wide.
- 4. All Saints, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave of four bays with arcades and S aisle windows of c.1300 but Perpendicular windows in the clerestorey and the N aisle. The chancel has a plain 12thc. doorway, and there is another, more elaborate but not much, re-set in the S nave aisle under a Perpendicular porch. A N vestry has been added to the chancel. At the W is a low tower with a bell stage of c.1250-1300. Construction is of irregular stone (aisles and tower) or ashlar (clerestorey and chancel). Included here are the S doorway and the font.
- 5. All Saints, Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church All Saints has an aisled nave with five-bay arcades, a chancel and a W tower. All of this is by Slater and Carpenter, dating from 1867-68, except the N nave aisle and the W tower, which are early 14thc. The only 12thc. feature is the important S doorway, with its figural tympanum. This is set under a 19thc. porch.
- 6. St Mary, Wansford, Northamptonshire, England
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Chapel of ease St Mary's has a nave with a two-bay N aisle without any windows and a S doorway under a porch. The square-ended chancel has a N vestry and organ chamber, and there is a W tower with a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. An 11thc. window in the W wall of the nave indicates an early date for the core building. The S doorway dates from the early 13thc., and the N arcade and tower are slightly later. The S porch is dated 1663, and at that date too the S nave wall was rebuilt. The clerestoreys to N and S were presumably added at that time too. At some point, probably in the 15thc., the chancel fell down, and the E nave wall was rebuilt without a chancel. Until the new chancel was built in 1902 on the old foundations, St Mary's was claimed to be the smallest parish church in England. Construction is of stone rubble and ashlar. The church boasts an exceptional font of the 1120s, which is the only feature described here.
- 7. St Mary the Virgin, Woodford, Northamptonshire, England
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Parish church St Mary's has a clerestoreyed nave with N and S aisles. The arrangement of the arcades is rather complex. There are six bays on the N and five on the S. The two east bays of each arcade correspond. The next pier W of each arcade is a short section of wall with responds to E and W and transverse arches across nave and aisles. W of this there are four bays in the N arcade but only three in the S, although the arcades are of equal length. This is because the S arcade has pointed arches throughout, and the N round arches. Of this ensemble, the earliest work is in the W section of the N arcade, say c.1190-1210. The two E bays of both arcades date from a decade later; pier 1 of each arcade is cylindrical with a moulded capital and the arches on the N are round, but on the S the round arches have been replaced by pointed ones with an unusual double hollow profile. This modification probably belongs to the later 13thc., and from this period too dates the entire west section of the S arcade. The E part of the present nave was, of course, the chancel originally, with chapels to N and S now integrated into the nave aisles. A new chancel was built to the E in the 13thc., but the present chancel is largely of 1866-67, and by James Fowler of Louth. The remainder of the church was restored in the same period, by William Slater of Northampton. The S nave doorway is covered by a porch, which also incorporates a tiny 13thc. chapel, once vaulted, open to the S aisle. The W tower dates from c.1250, and has a 14thc. ashlar broach spire.
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