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Architectural Features

Interior: chancel has chamfered pointed arched niches, flanking east windows, with traces of medieval wall-painting inside

North aisle has piscina with cusped head and traces of medieval wall-painting to jambs of former east window, overlaid by C16/C17 texts

Octagonal font with stiff-leaf foliage

Complete set of C18 box pews and double-decker pulpit with marquetry to panels and sounding board

Royal Arms of George IV, dated 1825, oil on board

5 Fermor hatchments, oil on canvas

Stain-glass east window said to be designed by Sir F. Shuckburgh (Pevsner) made by F and C. Crace

Monuments: Chest tomb with brasses to Richard Fermor, merchant of Staple of Calais and purchaser of the manor, d.1552 and his wife Anne

palimpsest of brasses of c.1480-1525, Wall monument to Sir John Farmer (sic) d.1577 and his wife Dame Maude with small figures kneeling at prayer desk facing each other, of limestone and alabaster with apron and cartouche of arms above

Large alabaster monument to Sir George Farmer (sic) d.1612 and Dame Mary d.1628 with two recumbent effigies, children kneeling in relief to front of tomb chest, arch behind supported by Corinthian columns, its head filled by scalloped fan with pennons

Strapwork to spandrels, obelisks and achievement of arms flanked by allegorical figures

Marble wall monument of similar size to Sir Hatton Fermor erected 1662 with life-size standing figures of Sir Hatton and his wife, a bust between them, flanked by black marble corinthian pillars with three female half-figures at prayer on cornice and obelisk finials

Marble wall monument (in chapel) to Anne Fermor d.1740 with obelisk background

White marble wall monument by Chantry in style of Greek stele erected 1819 to 2nd Earl of Pomfret d.1785 and his wife Anne Marie d.1787 with relief of figures bidding farewell

White marble wall monument to 3rd Earl of Pomfret d.1830 with lifesize male figure seated by urn

Another large Grecian style monument to Peter Denys d.1816 and Lady Charlotte Denys d.1835 with relief of three female genii hovering over draped urn and sarcaphagus

Other C19 and C20 Fermor and Fermor-Hesketh monuments. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, pp200-201

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