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St Michael And All Angels

Bugbrooke

Northamptonshire

C13 to C15

Architectural Features

Coursed squared ironstone and limestone, and coursed rubble, ironstone dressings, lead roofs, except for plain-tile roof to chancel

White marble wall monument below sill to Samuel Whitfield, patron of living and benefactor, d.1734 with coat of arms and ironstone hood-mould carved with helmet above arms

Two fine early C18 gargoyle heads

South chancel chapel has small piscina with pointed hollow-chamfered arch and 2-light C13 east window, now internal, which has Y-tracery with nailhead decoration and hollow-chamfered jambs and mullion

Nave has C13 4-bay arcades, that to south earlier with round piers, semi-circular responds, moulded capitals, 2 with stiff-leaf foliage and chamfered arches

Octagonal font, C15

C15 rood screen with ribbed coving and Perpendicular tracery

Painted Glass panel in north aisle window of Christ carrying Cross signed C.L. Gray 1827

Stained-glass east window c.1900, C19 stained glass window in tower, other stained glass windows of c.1900 to aisles

Monuments: brass plate to John Wyatt, d.1658

White marble wall monument either side of altar, that to right dated 1704 to Alicia Whitfield d.1617 and other members of same family, with coat of arms and flanking volutes

Wall monument to Reverend Samuel Kenton, d.1753, and his wife d.1747, erected by their only child Catherine

Similar wall monument to Catherine and Reverend Francis Reynesford, d.1785, with urn finial and cherub's head below

Similar wall monument to James Wassen, d.1797

Other C19 wall monuments. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.129

D. Peet, A Brief History and Architectural Description of the Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels at Bugbrooke, 1970).

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