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All Saints

All Saints

Thorpe Malsor

Northamptonshire

Late C13, C14

Architectural Features

4-stage west tower, C13 and C14, has clasping buttresses, moulded plinth and string courses, quatrefoil frieze

West side has a restored moulded doorway and above it, a C14 double lancet flanked by single cusped niches

3-bay nave clerestory has moulded parapet and gable and on each side, 3 plain C14 lancets in flat headed openings

North east corner has a square crenellated stair turret with gargoyles and dogtooth ornament, pyramidal lead roof and finial cross

East end has a C14 triple lancet with intersecting tracery

2-bay chancel, C14, has moulded eaves band with fleurons

Interior: late C13 double chamfered tower arch has octagonal responds and contains elaborate C19 organ case with stencilled decoration, flanked by groups of show pipes

Nave arcades, early and mid C14, 3 bays, have double chamfered arches with hood moulds, with stops to the north

Clerestory windows nave C19 stained glass

North aisle has late C19 stained glass west and north side windows

To the left of the doorway, a small C16 aumbry and to its right, a restored C13 piscina

South aisle has C19 stained glass south and west windows, South side has to west, 2 chamfered doorways to sacristy

East end has roll moulded C19 doorway with triple shafts to priest's vestry, which has C19 stained glass window and stone roof

Lady chapel has stained glass north and east windows, 1877, the east window flanked to right by a C13 style foiled aumbry and piscina with hood mould

South side has 2 C14 and C19 double chamfered arches separated by a pseudo-pier, that to the east with round responds, that to the west with imposts

Chancel has C14 double chamfered arch with octagonal responds

East end has late C19 alabaster gradine and stained glass windows c1860

2 late C19 stained glass windows

Elaborate arch braced C19 roof with traceried spandrels and angel corbels

Fittings include C14 octagonal font with crocketed ogee arches on clustered shaft stem

Semicircular C19 frescoed stone pulpit

Memorials include marble and slate pedimented tablet ,1677, and 3 C17 brasses, and large painted stone Baroque style pedimented war memorial, 1921.