Description

SP6668 EAST HADDON MAIN STREET
(North side)
18/143
02/11/54 Church of St. Mary
- II*

Church. C12-C14 with C19 restoration. Regular coursed lias with slate roof,
nave, south aisle, chancel and west tower. Chancel, south elevation of 3-
window range of 2-light window with reticulated tracery probably dating from
restoration by Mackesay 1872-74 or E.F. Low of 1877. Similar 3-light east
window. North elevation of chancel similar with organ chamber projection.
Gabled roof with ashlar parapet and corbel-table. South aisle of 3-window
range of 3-light square headed windows with similar east and west window.
Porch between windows 1 and 2 from west end with double chamfered arch and
plank and braced door. Ashlar parapet and shallow lean-to roof. South nave
clerestory of 3-window range of 2-light squared headed windows. Nave, north
elevation: three 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, gabled roof with
ashlar parapets. West tower, Perpendicular 3-stage with angle buttresses, 2-
light bell chamber windows to each face of third stage, having cross transoms.
Double string course with crenellated parapet above of 1673 with truncated
pinnacles. Inscribed tablet illegible below south bell chamber window.
Interior: C14 double chamfered chancel arch has C12 double nook-shafted
responds with leaf and waterleaf capitals. Nave C14, four-bay, south
arcade of double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Triple-chamfered
tower arch, C19 kingpost and tie beam roof in nave, similar arched braced
roof in chancel. Stained glass in north and south chancel windows and east
window of south aisle. Chancel, north and centre south wall by O'Connor
1861, and chancel south west by Kempe 1883. Piscina with ogee head and shaft
below basin. Triple sedilia with ogee heads adjacent, font C13 with
decorated frieze. Monument to Clarke Adams 1776 is a marble tablet with small
urn above by William Cox.
(Buildings of England: Northhamptonshire, p.198)

Listing NGR: SP6673068166

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557646

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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