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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Towcester

Northamptonshire

C13, C14, C15

Architectural Features

North chapel has 3-light east window with simple C18 or early C19 tracery with crown glass quarries, and 3-light windows to north with cinquefoil-headed lights and 4-centred heads

Projecting stair turret to former gallery of rood screen between north aisle and chancel chapel

Interior: chancel has C17 tie-beam trusses and purlins

Double-chamfered arch to south aisle, innermost on carved figure corbels

3 re-used C13 capitals, one with waterleaf decoration

Octagonal font with panelled bowl on crocketed nodding ogee arches

Fragments of C15 stained glass in east window of south chapel including arms of Archdeacon Sponne from Talbot Inn

East window of 1885, other C19 stained glass windows to south aisle

Monuments: table tomb of William Sponne, a chaplain of Henry VI, rector of Towcester and archdeacon of Norfolk, d.1448, with restored effigy and cadaver below

Alabaster wall monument to Jerome Farmore d.1602 with small kneeling figures facing each other at prayer desk in scalloped niches, flanked by Corinthian colonettes

Marble wall monument to Mary Hastings d.1686 with Corinthian columns supporting volutes either side of urn

Stone wall monument to Mary Hodges d.1759 with broken segmental pediment framing urn and signed Jn

Veined marble mid C18 wall monument to William Benson with cherubs' heads and urn finial. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.433