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St John The Baptist

Thorpe Waterville

Northamptonshire

Early and late C13, restored and enlarged c.1862 by William Slater

Architectural Features

Window to right is late C13 with quatrefoil circle and carved label stops, other 2 are mainly C19

Late C13 two-light south window has quatrefoil circle and elongated trefoils

Early C13 west door has 2 orders of shafts and roll-moulded arch

Corbel table with carved heads linked by trefoil arcading

C13 double-chamfered chancel arch and similar arches to transepts with corbelled responds

Early C13 stiff-leaf capital to north-east respond

Plain octagonal font

C19 stained glass to east window, south window of chancel, and north transept window

Monuments: Arthur Elmes died 16bS, reset oval wreathed tablet in tower with cherub above and scull below

3 other partially legible (:17/early C18 tablets in tower, 2 have armorial devices above, the other is a plain tablet. Sir Thomas Powys died 1719, monument in south transept, said to be reset from Lilford Church, by Robert Hartshorne. Large standing monument with detached Corinthian columns and open segmental pediment: putti and drapery falling over reclining figure below inscribed panel, flanked by figures of Truth and Justice. Charles and Henry Powys died 1804 and 1812, inscribed tablet to west wall of south transept has military still-life below. Henrietta Maria Powys died 1820, inscribed tablet to east wall of north transept has still-life of books and bowls below. Thomas Powys, second Lord Lilford, died 1825, inscribed tablet alongside. 3 similar C19 tablets to east wall of south transept have pediments over. Various C18 inscribed floor tablets to Powys family in south transept and mid C19 brass inscribed tablets to Powys family in transepts and chancel. Thomas Atherton Powys died 1882, marble medallion, with profile, to right of altar. The Powys family lived at Lilford Hall (q.v.). Robert Browne (1550-1630), who was Rector of Achurch, formed the first Independant Congregation. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.427

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