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Anglican and Methodist Church of St Giles

Anglican And Methodist Church Of St Giles

Desborough

Northamptonshire

C13, C14, C15, C16, restored mid C19

Architectural Features

4-stage west tower, early C16, has clasping buttresses, moulded string courses, quatrefoil frieze with gargoyles

On each side, to west, a C15 flat headed 2-light window and to east, 2 similar openings containing C19 casements

West end has a C15 2- light window with a flat head

Transepts, late C13 and C15, have chamfered plinths, sill bands and coped parapets with gable crosses

Gables have late C13 triple lancets with intersecting tracery

North transept west side has to left a C15 Perpendicular double lancet

East side has 2 C13 Y-traceried double lancets

South transept east side has 2 similar windows and above, 2 C15 ogee double lancets with panel tracery

Above, 2 C15 cusped double lancets

C13 coved and roll moulded inner doorway has shafts and hood mould

Shallow south porch has roll moulded C13 doorway with shafts, hood mould and mask stops, and coped gable with kneelers

C16 moulded tower arch has central quatrefoil pier with unusual stiff leaf capital, octagonal respond to east and mask corbel to west

C14 south arcade has octagonal pier and east respond with impost to west

North aisle west end has panelling,1945, and stained glass window, c 1907

East end has a C14 double chamfered arch with a re-set mask corbel

C15 roof has moulded cambered tie-beam and wall shafts

Transepts have moulded arch braced C19 roofs, North transept has to south east a C13 double lancet opening into the vestry, and 2 re-set roof brackets and a mask corbel to its right

South transept has a traceried oak screen, C16, restored 1918

East side has a central window with stained glass by Smith of London c 1945 and to its right, a stained glass window c 1953

Beyond, an ogee headed niche and re-set finial and a C13 style piscina

Chancel has double chamfered C14 arch with hood mould and octagonal responds, and moulded sill band

East end has panelled dado and to right of the window, a large corbelled figure bracket

South side has to east a C13 double piscina and a heavily restored C13 sedilia with clustered shafts

2 stained glass windows, 1870 and 1918

Fittings include C19 font and pulpit in C13 style

Brass eagle lectern, 1919

Memorials include 3 fragments of Anglo-Saxon crosses

Replica brass dated 1584 and 1598.