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St Edmund

St Edmund

Hardingstone, Northamptonshire

The nave aisles were added, the chancel rebuilt, and the tower raised in the C14

Architectural Features

The S chapel was added in the C15 and the S porch in the C16

S porch has a blocked, C16 depressed-headed arch with a hood mould, single light N and S windows, and a C18 obelisk finial

Early C13 tower arch, lower than the arcades, of three plain, square orders on chamfered imposts

In the chancel, the sedilia in the chancel S wall is a table tomb recess with a late C16 or early C17 arch with guilloche and other Renaissance motifs, surmounted by an angel with a trumpet and the Tate crest

There are a number of important monuments, including in the SE chapel, alabaster and black marble wall monument to Stephen Harvey (d 1606), his wife (d 1590) and three sons; kneeling figures in two tiers in canopied recesses. Also in SE chapel, alabaster monument to Sir Stephen Harvey, Knight of the Bath (d 1630) with recumbent figure on a chest, with some original colour surviving