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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Swinford

Northamptonshire

Nave and aisle roofs probably C14 with carved tracery to tie beams of nave roof and wall shafts supported on carved brackets

Architectural Features

Font, C14 with tracery decorations

Pulpit incorporates part of the rood screen

Screens: Rood screen with Perpendicular base and top reset from Lutterworth, Leicestershire

Choir stalls have panelled fronts one with misericord

C16 linenfold panelling behind

West gallery on Tuscan columns supports early C17 organ reputedly from the Royal Chapel, Whitehall

Stained glass: Chancel east window early C14 depicting the Virgin, Saints, Abbots and the Crucifixion

Also early C14 the chancel side windows depicting 10 apostles and 2 saints

In the south-east window glass c.1500 depicting the Virgin and St

South aisle windows probably early C16 depicting figures

Monuments, south aisle: Defaced effigy of a priest C14 on chest tomb in arch recess decorated with quatrefoils and flanked by buttress

alabaster chest tomb with 2 recumbent figures decorated with shields roundels, putti and kneeling figures

North chancel: Sir Otway Cave died 1830, relief depicting 3 figures, one on a couch reputedly by Kessells

North aisle west Robert Ottoway Cave died 1844, figure on couch by Westmacott

South aisle west: Third Lady Braye died 1862, recumbent and kneeling figures by Mary Thorneycroft

North aisle: Edmund Verney c.1896 has free standing figure to left

17 hatchments. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.407).