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St Mary

Great Brington

Northamptonshire

Late C13 to C19

Architectural Features

South aisle, mid C14, three 3-light windows with reticulated tracery similar west window, ashlar parapet, single pitched roof

Gabled buttresses at corners with gargoyles

2-stage angle buttresses, west door with 4-centred head: tall C14 three light windows immediately above with panel tracery

Interior: 6-bay C14 arcade with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches: South taller with concave sides to piers, stained glass: east window by Morris and Co

South window of chancel has remains of glass c1532

North chapel C19 glass by Ward

Pews c.1846 with poppy heads incorporating C15 work, font, circular, of Purbeck marble, C13 base

Monuments: Inscribed tablets to Robert Washington 1622 and Laurence Washington 1616 in nave and chancel respectively

Spencer monuments in north chapel: south east of chapel Sir John Spencer died 1522 and wife: effigies on tomb chest beneath canopy decorated with shields, quatrefoils and an angel

south-east corner by John Stone, demi-figure rising from urn

John Spencer 1783, by Nollekens, west of bay window is white marble tablet, female figure with male profile in clouds

Other C19 monuments, coronets and hatchments relating to the Spencer family

The Spencer chapel is scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.229)

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