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St Lawrence

Brafield-on-the-Green

Northamptonshire

C12, C13 and C15, restored 1858

Architectural Features

Coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, slate and plain-tile roofs

Massive diagonal offset buttress, gargoyles to angles and battlemented chamfered chancel arch with polygonal responds

South arcade has polygonal east and west responds with stiff leaf capitals, one circular pier with basketweave decoration to north side, waterleaf to other sides, and another with keeled shafts to angles, coupled shafts to four sides, and capital with stiff-leaf and carved heads to angles, both with moulded bases and octagonal abaci

Norman font has square bowl with ornament of interlacing semi-circles and circular stem

7-sided panelled pulpit, probably late C18.

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