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St Michael

Farthinghoe

Northamptonshire

C12-15 with C17 additions

Architectural Features

In the South wall is a C14 trefoil headed lancet

To the right is the head of a Decorated window with reticulated tracery the lower section now forming doorway to the late Perpendicular South vestry, reputedly built as a schoolroom in the C17

Porch rebuilt 1871 (date stone) in gable re-using C13 and C14 work

C12 west doorway with plain round arch

Interior: early C13 south arcade, 3 bays with pointed double chamfered arches and round piers, one capital carved with stiff leaf, the other moulded

Similar North arcade has capital with primitive stiff leaf carving, the other moulded

The lead corbels in the clerestory are Perpendicular Plain C12 tower arch

Monument to George Rush died 1806

Free standing sarcophagus with life size white marble figure in loose robe reclining with slippers on feet and Bible in hand

Photo coming soon