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St John The Evangelist

Wicken

Northamptonshire

Off-set diagonal and angle buttresses and plain stone-coped parapet with gargoyles to angles

Architectural Features

Piers have two shaft-bands and capitals in later C13 French style with shallow foliage and square abaci with hollows at angles

Font: square bowl of Purbeck marble with 3 shallow blank round-headed arches to each side on octagonal stem and octagonal shafts to each corner

Late C19 and early C20 stain glass to chancel, south chapel, north aisle and west window, that to chancel north 1921 by Eleanor Brickdale

Monuments: brass to Thomas House, d.1633

Wall monument to Margaret Shirte, d,lb34, with Latin inscription on brass plate in moulded stone surround

Wall monument to John Sharp, d.1726, with two seated putti holding cartouche of arms against slate obelisk background and inscription to apron flanked by scull and cross-bones

Similar wall monument to John Hosier Sharp, d.1734, son of John Sharp, with urn against obelisk background

Pair of marble wall monuments flanking tower arch of similar size

Wall monument to Elizabeth Sharp, d.1810, signed by J. Bacon Jun. with draped urn against black marble background weeping willow and bas-relief with Sorrow and Charity

Early C19 wall monuments to Emily Elizabeth Fitzroy, d.1827, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, d.1829, and Reverend Henry Quartley signed P. Rouw, sculptor, Portland Road, London. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, pp461-2

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