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St Mary, Everdon, Northamptonshire

Location
(52°12′41″N, 1°7′50″W)
Everdon
SP 595 574
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Northamptonshire
now Northamptonshire
  • Ron Baxter

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Feature Sets
Description

St Mary's is a spacious church with a four-bay aisled and clerestoreyed nave, probably 14thc., and a broad aisleless chancel, also 14thc., with a N vestry. The W tower is Decorated too, and of three storeys. The nave doorways are both under porches. Construction is of ashlar. The only Romanesque feature is the Sussex marble font.

History

Everdon was held by William from the Bishop of Bayeux in 1086. No church was recorded.

Benefice of Weedon Bec with Everdon and Dodford.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

Pevsner describes the font as Purbeck and 13thc. The date might well be correct, but it follows a 12thc. form, commonest in Sussex but extremely widespread, and is likely to have been imported to Northants.

Bibliography
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire. Harmondsworth 1961, rev. B. Cherry 1973, 210-11.