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St Andrew

Billing, Northamptonshire

Parish church begun early C12 or earlier, exhibiting an interesting and unusual range of fabric phases including both Medieval and post-Medieval work

Architectural Features

The S door is c1400 and has a pointed head with crockets and shields on the hood mould stops

The nave parapet has panels of Elizabethan balustrading with pierced quatrefoils set into it; these are said to have come from the old Billing Hall, demolished 1776

The upper part of the tower was rebuilt after the fall of the spire in 1759, and the parapet has Elizabethan balustrade panels like those in the nave clerestory

The late C17 N chancel chapel is dominated by the monument to Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond

Reredos of c1400 in the S aisle E wall, with a tall, ogee-headed central recess flanked by two smaller ogee recesses, said to once have had a painted inscription in the central recess

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