Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126693
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126693
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 15252 07959
Details
1. 5141 NORTHBOROUGH CHURCH STREET (north side) Church of St Andrew TF 1507 27/420 15.12.55 I GV 2. Late C12 to C13 nave. The west end of nave has 4 thin buttresses and gabled bellcote with 2 moulded arch bell openings. Parapet with dog tooth frieze and moulded coping. C13 aisles. North aisle has chamfered doorway, 2 C17 straight headed windows and C13 west window with Y-tracery. South aisle has 2 C13 Y-traceried windows. East window with quatrefoiled circle and parapet with frieze of small groteques. Good C13 south doorway with 2 orders of colonettes, heavily moulded arch. C15 porch with 4 centred arch. Decorated chancel with reticulated traceried north and south windows and restored Perpendicular east window. Very large south chantry chapel built by Geoffrey or Henry Delamore circa 1330-50. The missing effigies for 2 tomb recesses inside the chapel are said to be those in the porch of Glinton Church. The chapel is 2 bays with large 4 centred arch, 5-light south window with circular tracery between 2 polygonal turrets. The east and west windows have segmental arches. The chapel is ashlar built with battlements and ballflower frieze below. Under the chapel is a vaulted charel house with bone shoots. Mrs Oliver Cromwell is buried below the chapel. Interior: C13 3 bay arcades with circular piers, circular capitals and abaci and double chamfered arches. Decorated chancel arch with fillets on the responds and one capital has carved foliage, chamfered and moulded arch. Depressed tie beam nave and chancel roofs. C15 sedilia and piscina in south aisle. Rebuilt C17 altar rail. Plain Cl5 octagonal font C19 and modern furnishings. Monument to James Claypole 1594/Claypoles owned Northborough Manor Ebue, Oliver Cromwells daughter married a Claypole and his widow also lived at Northborough. VCH Northants Vol II.
Listing NGR: TF1525207959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50208
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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