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St Mary and All Saints

St Mary And All Saints

Fotheringhay

Northamptonshire

Shallow gabled roof with castellated parapet and remains of gargoyles

Architectural Features

Octagonal lantern has diagonal shafts at corners decorated with panel tracery and carved heads, each terminating as a crocketed pinnacle

Nave roof has curved braces and collars with carved bosses at intersection of purlins

Perpendicular pulpit with rib vaulted tester with a larger Jacobean tester over

Stained glass: mid C20 armorial shields of House of York, east window of south aisle

Fragment of wall painting to right of west window

Perpendicular octagonal font has medieval carving incorporated into cover

Monuments: matrices of medieval brasses in chancel and sanctury floor

Edmund Second Duke of York and Richard Third Duke of York, identical monuments to either side of altar, erected in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I. Each is of limestone, ashlar, with central armorial devices with strapwork flanked by pairs of attached Corinthian columns, similar columns on return walls facing into nave

Thomas Hurland, died 1589: brass tablet in sanctuary floor, Kath Hutchins, died 1726: Rococo style tablet on centre pier of north nave archade