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St Margaret

Crick

Northamptonshire

C14-C15, incorporating C12 work, restored in 1840 by R.C. Hussey

Architectural Features

Coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, coursed squared ironstone and sandstone tower, tile and lead roofs

C14 three-light window with Intersecting tracery to west of north doorway

C14 north doorway has arch with continuous mouldings

The chancel windows have double label stops carved with figures, exotic beasts and foliage

Stone corbels to nave roof include reused C12 beasts' heads

Romanesque sandstone font, the base formed by three crouching figures supporting a circular bawl carved all over with bead decoration

Stone effigy of a woman c.1300, badly eroded, fragments of Flemish C16 stained glass in north aisle window

Parson's Hutch, in the south aisle, a sentry box like structure formerly used to shelter the parson at funerals, probably C18-C19, The Church is said to have been remodelled for Sir Thomas de Astley in C14. (Buildings of England

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