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St Mary

Ashley

Northamptonshire

Late C13 and early C14

Architectural Features

3 windows to centre retain some C14 tracery

Lean-to roof with plain corbelled eaves and gargoyles

Ashlar buttresses between all windows and carved label stops to all windows on south-east and west elevations of south aisle and chancel

Shallow gabled roof with ashlar parapets and gargoyles

Brass gates at chancel steps and brass and wrought iron communion rail

C19 stained glass by Clayton and Bell to chancel windows, east windows of aisles and west windows of tower

C19 screen of 7 bays forms end of north chapel into vestry C19 pink marble font with gilding in nave and C18 pedestal font in chancel

Monuments: early and mid C19 marble tablets to Farrer family, reset in north wall of chancel

Chancel floor of encaustic tiles with marble insets. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.93)

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