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St Mary The Virgin

Stoke Bruerne

Northamptonshire

C14 and C15 with late C12 origins

Architectural Features

External covered stairway of 1879 on north side of chancel leads to rood screen gallery door inside church and has blocked hollow-chamfered door with 4-centred head and hood mould and 3 stepped 1-light windows with cusped and hollow-chamfered stone surrounds with ogee-arched heads

Gargoyles to middle of north and south sides

South door has fine C14 foliage finials of former hood mould or reset

Font has octagonal plinth, stem and tapered bowl

Rood screen Perpendicular with 1-light ogee-arched divisions and panel tracery above

Communion rail, C17 with fat turned balusters now used as stall fronts

Monuments

Wall monument with brass to Richard Lightfoot, d.1625, in pilastered limestone surround with apron and hour-glass to finial

Wall monument resembling small hatchment, with coat of arms and inscription to Jane Nailour, d. January 1655/6, daughter and sole heir of Robert Wicken

Wall monument to Mrs

Wall monument to Anna, wife of Francis Arundell, d.1674, with bolection-moulded slate surround to marble inscription panel

Veined marble wall monument to Reverend William Rolfe, d.1693

Wall monument to John Blackburn, d.1719, with bolection-moulded stone surround painted black

Wall monument signed Middleton, Towcester, to John Smith, merchant in London, d.1768, erected by his executers in memory of his parents sister and uncle

Veined marble wall monument to Reverend Joseph Tordiff, d.1775, with urn finial

Wall monument to members of Vernon family beginning with Henrietta Vernon, d.1796

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