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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Wadenhoe

Northamptonshire

Late C12, C13 and early C14, restored C18 and C19

Architectural Features

Chancel has gabled Collyweston slate roof rising behind plain parapet with 2 gargoyles

C13 south doorway has 2-centred arch head and roll mouldings

3-light east window with restored geometrical tracery and carved label stops and 2-light west window with restored tracery

C13 gabled porch in bay to right has roll-moulded inner and outer doorways with 2-centred-arch heads

Late C12 west tower of 3 stages with 2-stage clasping buttresses

Lancet window to west face of first stage and C12 triple arcade with detached shafts to north face

Saddleback roof, with ashlar gable parapets and finial, is probably C13

C13 north arcade with nailhead decoration to capitals and c.1300 south arcade with some stiff-leaf capitals

Double-chamfered chancel arch with bracketed responds with green-man and similar corbel

C13 circular font decorated with stiff leaves and supported on 4 shafts

Fragments of C17 panelling in chancel and south aisle

Late C18 fielded-panelled pulpit

2 hatchments in belfry

Fragment of medieval glass in east window of south aisle

Late C19 and early C20 stained glass in all chancel windows, probably by Kempe, and east window of north aisle

Monuments: John Andrewe died 1629, brass plaque in floor of nave