Description

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5141 MARHOLM CHURCH WALK
Church of St Mary
TF 10 SW 10/340 15.12.55
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C12 and C13 church with C15 and C16 alterations and additions. Nave with
Perpendicular clerestory windows and moulded ashlar parapet. C19 (externally)
north and south aisles and C19 south porch. Large Perpendicular chancel
rebuilt in 1534 by Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton (Sherrif of Northamptonshire
in 1524) with battlements, large angle buttresses and 4-light Perpendicular north
and south windows and 5-light Perpendicular east window and 4 centred arch
south doorway. Ashlar south wall of chancel, north and east walls rendered.
Squat Norman west tower in 3 steps with clasping buttresses, battlements
and pinnacles and with pyramidal Collyweston stone roof and slit lancet
bell openings. The tower is ashlar and the remainder of church stone rubble.
Interior: Round single stepped tower arch with crocketed capitals to the
responds. C13 3 bay arcades with double chamfered arches and quatrefoil
section piers and similar C13 dormer arch. Octagonal font probably C17
with rose and leaf spray on each face.
Monuments: circa 1400 recumbent effigy of knight on largely C19 tomb chest.
Monument to Sir William Fitzwilliam 1534 with tomb chest with canopy on
colonnettes and ogee arches, and with brasses against the back wall. Sir
William Fitzwilliam 1599, 2 recumbent effigies.
Edward Hunter alias (Perry) 1646 with bust of boy over cartouche with flanking
plinth and with obelisk behind and an inscription below.
William First Earl Fitzwilliam 1719 and wife by James Fisher of Camberwell -
standing figures, Corinthian columns and open segmental pediment.
Veil Northants Vol II.

Listing NGR: TF1462401916

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528793

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability