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All Saints

Middleton Cheney

Northamptonshire

Early C14 with Perpendicular tower

Architectural Features

Windows in chancel and aisles all have early C14 geometric tracery (some renewed C19). 4-light east window in chancel, 2-light windows in side walls

C14 gabled south porch with stone vault carried on transverse arch with head corbels and tracery motifs above it

Inner doorway, early C14, has jamb shafts with bell capitals and hood with head stops

North doorway C14, with continuous mouldings

West tower of 3 stages, has cornice with gargoyles

Elaborately carved west doorway has continuous mouldings set with rosettes flanked by small figures of the Virgin Mary and angel Gabriel

Square hood with a frieze of angels with outspread wings

C14 chancel arch, responds altered C19

Perpendicular font, octagonal, carved with rosettes

Perpendicular polygonal pulpit with blind tracery and C19 painted decoration

Important collection of stained glass by the William Morris firm

A.C. Sewter: The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, Yale 1974-5, 2 Vols. Catalogue volume, p.133-134).