St Mary the Virgin at Fathingstone is a late C13 church that was extensively restored in 1852, 1872; and 1924-28 by Talbot Brown & Fisher.
The north part of the church contains a plain octaganal tub font.
Whilst the body of nave contains mid C19 pews with carved poppy-heads.
The east window shows the subject of Jesus raising the widows son and is the only glass in the church that is not a memorial to the Agnew family.
Two of the other windows were designed by John Henry Dearle for the William Morris company. The first (Flora after Burne-Jones) is dedicated to Christine Elaine. The second (St Dorothy) is dedicated to Enid Jocelyn.
The fibal two windows are dedicated to male members of the Agnew family. The first is dedicated to Ewan Siegfried Agnew Lieut. 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers who died in 1930 due to illness contracted during WW1. The second is dedicated to Michael David Agnew Evans, Lieut. Royal Horse Guards who died in Syria in 1942.
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St Luke’s church at Cold Higham is a C13 building with a Norman saddleback roof tower. Currently on the “Heritage At Risk Register” which states that “structural movement to the east end has occurred leaving the masonry vulnerable to water ingress and there is erosion of all ironstone; this is a particular concern at high level on the tower.” On the outside wall on the south side of of the chancel is a C14 tomb recess.
The church yard contains a number of C17 and C18 grave stones.
The three light curvilinear east window dates from the early C14, and the south wall has a leper squint into the south chapel, which is now blocked by the tomb monument to Sir John de Patteshall (d1349). See also Radstone. The nave is of 4 bays.
The tomb consists of an effigy of a cross legged knight made from oak, with the knights feet resting on a lion.
There are two windows containing victorian stained glass a 1-light window of Matha and Mary with Jesus, and a 2-light window depicing Mattew and Mark.
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The church of St Peter at Market Bosworth was built from the early to mid C14.
View of chancel from nave and of the nave from the chancel.
The hexagonal font is C14 and consists of sculpted shields beneath ogee arches.
The five light east window is by Kempe (1900) and shows the Annunciation, Madonna and child, and Epiphany. Another three light window in the south aisle is by Kempe and consists of St George, St Peter, and the Virgin Mary.
Other stained glass in the church are Chist surrounded by the four evangelists, the good Samaritan, and a mid C20 Madonna and Child.
The stained glass window depicting the Supper at Emmaus is dated 1925 and dedicated to the rector Percy Harris Bowers.
There are two monuments of note an early C19 casket dedicated to Wolston Dixie, his wife and nine children. The old monument is of the Reverend John Dixie (d1719) which is a reclining woman and roccoco cartouche.
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The parish church of St Denys in Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, has a simple plan, consisting of a west tower, nave and chancel. There are no aisles, transepts, although there is a clerestory. The church was mostly built between the 12th and 14th centuries, of ashlar block from the local Lias stone, and was restored in the 1840s.
The Perpendicular style font has craved flower motifs on the underside of the bowl.
The vicar, Gregory Bateman, in the 19th century carried out a number of improvements in the church, including the High Victorian style Lych Gate of 1883, and the church contains a number of monuments including stained glass to him and his wife. The stained glass dedicated to him shows him preaching in the church, and welcoming the parishioners at the Lynch Gate.
There is another wall monument to Gregory Bateman, and two other late 18th century monuments, an oval monument to Elizabeth Castle and Elizabeth Markham, and another monument to Alice Wickes.
The outside south wall of the church contains a sundial and the remains of a medieval scratch dial.
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Completed in 1854, this Catholic Church dedicated to St. Joseph, was built in the Early English style by Pugin’s master builder George Myers.
The church contains many early stained glass works by John Hardman. Hardman was present at the church’s opening and sang with a part of the St Chad choir from Birmingham. Both the west window contain a crucifixion scenes, and has the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist in the lancets to the left and right. The east window window has a central figure of Christ, within a vesica piscis, who is sat on a rainbow that is above New Jerusalem. A number of Seraphim make up the ruby red background of the mandorla. On the left the Virgin Mary is holding a lily that symbolizes the Annunciation, and in the right window St Joseph is holding a flowering rod. In the Lady Chapel the two donor figures at the bottom of the lancet windows s are St. Aloysius Gonzaga, and St Helen. This window is dedicated to Thomas Aloysius Perry and his wife Helen (who was the niece of the church’s founder Joseph Knight.
THe nave windows are all dedicated to the donors, including the “Death of St Joseph” which is dedicated to the church Founder who died sixteen days after the church was opened in January 1855.
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