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St Andrew

St Andrew

Yardley Hastings

Northamptonshire

C13 and C14

Architectural Features

Coursed limestone rubble, limestone and ironstone dressings, lead and plain-tile roofs

Single-stepped and hollow-chamfered south doorway, with medieval ridged and studded plank door, probably C14, with original hinges, brattished cross-piece at level of springing of arch, cusped arch mouldings and scalloped top

Original early C13 corbel table and C15 battlemented parapet

South aisle has pointed trefoil-headed piscina and image brackets either side of east window, that to left with carved head, that to right with foliage

Large brass chandelier hanging in nave, presented 1808 by Reverend George Rooke and signed Cocks and Son, Birmingham with 10 branches in 2 tiers, ormolu rococo flame finial and rise and fall mechanism

Royal arms of George III, oil on board

2 funeral hatchments, oil on board, one with Compton arms, the other with arms of Reverend George Rooke, d,1856, Early C20 stain-glass windows to chancel and south aisle

Monuments: wall monument of white marble with slate inscription panel to John Wilson d.1695

Wall monument to Reverend Humfrey Betty d.l737 and his wife Dorothy d.1717 with veined grey marble apron and lamp with flame finial

Veined grey marble wall monument to William Underwood d.1760, postmaster of Oxford, Witney and Burford "who by care and industry acquired/An handsom Furtune/which he by will divided amongst his/Poor Relations./Being born in this Parish/It was his dying request/To be buried near the Rails/In this Chancel". Apron and lamp finial

Veined white marble wall monument to Reverend Edward Lye d.1767 signed by William Co of Northampton

Wall monument of white marble on grey marble ground to George Rooke d.1807, erected by his father, rector of this parish

Other early-mid C19 wall monuments