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St Bartholomew

St Bartholomew

Greens Norton

Northamptonshire

Saxon (mid C10-C11) C13, C14

Architectural Features

Coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings, plain-tile roofs, except to aisles - of lead

Long and short work to angles of Saxon nave visible at west end and to west of easternmost bays of arcades inside

Image brackets with carved heads flank east window south chapel, which has piscina with ogee-arched cusped head

Circular font carved with beaded diamonds, filled with flowers

Pulpit has Jacobean panels

Royal arms of Elizabeth I dated 1592, oil on board

Royal arms dated 1826, carved wood, the gift of W. Edwards

C19 stained glass, east windows and into aisles

Monuments: brass to Lady Greene (Sir Thomas d.1417). Alabaster effigies of Sir Thomas Greene d.1457 and his wife

Brass of Sir Thomas Greene d.1462 inside large recess with moulded 4-centred arched head, on tomb-chest with shields in pointed quatrefoils

Alabaster wall monument to John Hicklinge d.1558 with marble colonettes, slate inscription tablet, apron, obelisks and cartouche with arms

Alabaster wall monument to William Hicklinge d.1606 and his wife Frances d.1603: kneeling couple facing each other at prayer desk, daughter behind her mother, large plumed helmet behind her father in niche with semi-circular superstructure and curtains held open by angels either side

H.M and J. Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Vol.I, pp.261-2).