← Database
St Luke

St Luke

Kislingbury

Northamptonshire

C14, restored c.1700 with some alterations, tower restored 1717, spire rebuilt 1926, body of church restored and vestry added 1829-30

Architectural Features

C15 south porch has chamfered doorway with 4-centred head and hood mould and 2-light Perpendicular windows east and west with straight heads. stone in gable inscribed with churchwarden's names and date 1747 and another below of red sandstone recording "thorough and complete repair in the years 1829 and 1830". 3-stage west tower has west door with chamfered jambs and lintel inscribed with churchwarden's names and date 1717 and 2-light window above with Y-tracery

Octagonal font with fleurons in quatrefoils to sides and to underside of bowl and panelled stem, Chest of c.1500 with blind arcading and big rosettes

C18 16-broach brass chandelier with dove finial

Monuments: alabaster wall monument with slate inscription to Rev

John Perkins, d.1728, flanked by panelled pilasters, carved apron and urns with flame finials, signed John Hunt, Northampton

Veined marble wall monument to John Jephcott, d.1743, and Reverend Henry Jephcott, d.1798, and her husband, d.1801

Early and mid C19 wall monuments with white marble inscriptions on black marble ground, 2 signed Whiting Northampton. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.283 and 284