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All Saints

All Saints

Norton

Northamptonshire

Cl3, C14 and C15, chancel rebuilt early C18, and again Cl9

Architectural Features

C13 south door with shafts and capitals, one with faces, bearing many moulded arch

C19 stain-glass east window of 1847 by Willement

C20 nave roof, C17 tie beam roof to north and south aisles

Complete scheme of C19 stained glass with single figures and armorial panels to aisle windows

Late C17 communion table at east end of north aisle

Octagonal Jacobean pulpit

Fine set of funeral hatchments

Royal Arms of Queen Anne dated 1709, oil on board, in tower

Good set of monuments including: brass to William Knight d.1501 and his wife Katherine d.1504

painted alabaster monument with recumbent praying effigy in coffered arch flanked by black marble Corinthian columns and outer obelsiks and topped by armorial panels, to Lady Elizabeth Seymour d.1602, 2nd wife of Sir Richard Knightley

wall monuments to Dudley Knightley d.1602, Nicholas Breton d.1624 with broken pediment flanked by cherubs, Ann Breton d.1635 of similar proportions with broken segmental pediment framing wreathed skull and flanked by obelisks with diamond bosses supported by cherub's heads

large wall monument to Anne Verney d.1633 with kneeling figure in round-arched niche with broken segmental pediment flanked by angels supporting arms

Nicholas Breton d.1658 and his wife Elizabeth with busts of each and framed by composite columns supporting broken segmental pediment: Charlotte Botfield d.1825 by William Behnes with life-size figure of mourning son. (Buildings of England: Northants, p.359