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St Mary

Middleton Cheney

Northamptonshire

C14, partly rebuilt C19

Architectural Features

South doorway also C14

Window to left C14, (tracery renewed) 3 lights and hood with headstops

West tower: C14, three stages with crenellated parapet, corbel table, and gargoyles at angles

Interior: chancel arch C14, triple chamfered with half octagonal responds

3-bay north arcade, C14, has octagonal pier and moulded capitals carved with grotesque heads

Above it is part of a blocked C14 arch

C14 arch to transept, double chamfered, with half octagonal responds

Fittings: Tub front, probably Romanesque, re-cut C14 with arcade of blind ogee arches

Re- used C14-15 tracery on bench ends, one carved with an "Annunciation", Effigy of a knight (Sir John de Lyons?) on tomb-chest c.1350, of clunch

Tomb-chest elaborately carved with crockleted ogee panels containing shields and figures of mourners

C14 relief of "Virgin and Child" at foot of effigy not insitu

C14 stone effigies of Knight and Lady, in recesses in north aisle

Wall monument to William Holman died 1740, signed by R. Mottley, in south transept

Late C17-18, with fine lettering and crests carved in shallow relief. (Buildings of England : Northamptonshire, p.444).

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