CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1052135
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-26
Reference:: IOE01/07403/14
Rights:: © Mr Ian Paterson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1052135
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARBOROUGH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HARBOROUGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brampton Ash
National Grid Reference:: SP 78866 87480

Details

BRAMPTON ASH HARBOROUGH ROAD SP78NE (South side) 3/23 Church of St. Mary 25/02/57 GV I

Church. C13 and C14, with minor C19 restoration. Regular coursed lias and limestone with lead roofs. Aisled nave, chancel, west tower and north and south porches. South elevation of chancel of 2-window range of C14 two- and 3-light windows. Ashlar gable parapet with 2 gargoyles. Shallow pitched roof. C13 four-light east window has Y-tracery with 3 roundels, discretely restored C19. North elevation of chancel of 2-window range with C13 two-light window to left with Y-tracery and C13 single lancet to right. Blocked north door between. Ashlar gable parapet with 2 gargoyles and carving of bat at north-east corner. South aisle of 2-window range of C14 three-light windows. Ashlar gable parapets and lean-to roof. Central C14 gabled porch with roll moulding to outer opening. North aisle of 3-window range of C14 three-light windows. Ashlar gable parapets with gargoyles. Lean-to roof. C14 gabled porch to right of centre is similar to north porch but has niche above outer opening and 2-light windows to return walls. Nave clerestory of 4-window range of C14 two-light windows. Ashlar gable parapet with 5 gargoyles. Shallow pitched roof. C14 west tower, 3 stages with sub-division in the lower stage. Shallow 2-stage clasping buttresses to lower 2 stages. Single lancet to north and south face of second stage and 2-light bell-chamber openings to each face of third stage. C14 broach spire with diamond and quatrefoil frieze at base. 2 tiers of lucarnes. Interior: nave arcade of 4-bay range of C14 double chamfered arches with slender piers having hollow-chamfered projections to nave and aisles and shafts with capitals to the arch openings. C13 double chamfered chancel arch and C14 chamfered and moulded tower arch. Roofs, restored C19, retain some original timbers. Fragments of vaulted ceiling to the tower. Piscina with triple sedilia in chancel. Tall C14 niches flanking east window. C18 communion rail. Octagonal font. Royal arms in relief, with pediment over, above chancel arch. Monuments: south wall of chancel, Charles Norwich, died 1605, and wife, 2 kneeling figures under arch. North wall of chancel, Thomas Farmer, died 1764, and 2 other tablets. Chancel floor has indents of brasses. West wall of south aisle: George Bosworth, died 1804; marble tablet with 2 weeping willows bending over an urn. 2 C19 tablets alongside. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p119)

Listing NGR: SP7886687480

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Legacy System number:: 230879
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 119

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.