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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Gayton

Northamptonshire

C14 and C15, with older origins

Architectural Features

C13 south door with pairs of shafts, moulded capitals and many-moulded arch in porch rebuilt C19

Interior: chancel has reredos with C16 linenfold panelling, probably re-used, and piscina with cusped and chamfered ogee-arched head

Circular font with intersecting arcading

6 C15 stalls in chancel said to come from St

James Abbey near Northampton with carved arm-rests and misericords representing the Virgin of the Misericord, a lion and a dragon fighting, a seraph astride two figures, three seated female figures, Christ in Majesty, Christ's Entry in Jerusalem and small praying figure with another on horseback below

C15/early C16 screenwork in vestry, much repaired

Jacobean pulpit with 2 tiers of blank arches

pulpit door re-used in bottom half of low-side window

C14 stained glass to north-west window of chapel including arms

Painted glass roundels in chapel windows with coats of arms, 3 of which are dated 1632 and smaller c17 roundels said to came from Church of St

given by W.H. Fox Talbot of Laycock Abbey. c19 stained glass east and aisle windows

Monuments: oak effigy of knight said to be Sir Philip de Gayton, d.1316, an tomb-chest with ogee-headed crocketed panels in ogee-arched recess between chancel and chapel, which is crocketed and has pinnacles and finial

Early C16 chest tomb in recess on south side of chancel with depressed arch and battlements with Purbeck marble slab and matrix of brass in back wall, possibly to Robert Tanfield, d.1504

Brass plates mounted on wall to William Houghton, d.1600, with verse, and Mary Breton, d.1704

Large C18 marble monument to Lockwood family by Robert Blore with long inscription framed by columns

Wall monuments to Richard Kent, d.1753, and Richard Kent, d.1780, both vertical ovals with cartouches of arms and signed W. Cox, Northampton. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, pp.221-2