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St Mary

St Mary

Woodnewton

Northamptonshire

C11 to C15, tower rebuilt C17 and north aisle and transept demolished, porch remodelled as datestone 1662

Architectural Features

C12 priest door, to left, has semi-circular head with zig-zag decoration

3-light window with intersecting tracery and carved label stops, to right

3-light centre window has triangular head, 3 cusped circles and carved label stops

C12 inner doorway with semi-circular head, nailhead decoration and 2 orders of shafts

2-window range to centre and right of C17 four-light square-head windows

2 C15 two-light clerestory windows to far left

South nave clerestory of 5-window range of C15 two-light windows similar to north elevation

Interior: 3-bay south nave arcade of early C13 double chamfered arches with circular and quatrefoil piers with nailhead decoration

East respond has capital with carved heads

Late C12, single stepped, semi-circular arch from nave to former south transept has flat responds

Late C12 triple stepped and chamfered tower arch, with polygonal responds, is set in square surround

Octagonal font on octagonal base, probably modified

Stained glass: fragment of medieval glass to south window of former trancept

C19 glass in chancel

Monuments: fragments of stone coffin lids in porch