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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Courteenhall

Northamptonshire

C13-C17, reseated and refloored 1886, partly restored 1897, further restoration in 1912

Architectural Features

Aisles have C17 3-light round-arched mullion windows with cut spandrels and hood moulds, and plain stone-coped parapets

North arcade has one octagonal pier and one circular pier, the latter with stiff-leaf carving to capital and chamfered and wave-moulded arches

Plain circular tub font

Fragment of medieval wall painting with upper halves of female figures against west side of west pier of south arcade

Late C19 stain glass chancel windows to south

4 hatchments, oil on canvas

Monuments: chest tomb with rhyming inscription to limestone base and black marble ledger stone with indents of brasses to Richard 0useley d.1599 and family

Monument to Sir Samuel Jones d,1672 and his wife Mary, of black and white marble with large kneeling figures on base with inscription, flanked by Ionic columns with broken segmental pediment framing cartouche of arts

Marble wall monument by William Cox Senior to Sir Charles Wake d.1769 with apron, Corinthian pilasters of veined marble, winged skull surmounted by canopy above inscription

Wall monument to Isla Campbell d.1837 aged 6 weeks framing soft paste porcelain model of dead child in niche behind glass

Numerous other C19 and C20 marble wall monuments to members of Wake family.