Description

CATESBY LOWER CATESBY
SP55NW
4/42 Chapel of St. Mary and St.
18/01/68 Edmund
GV II
Church. Built 1861-2 on foundations of C17 chapel of Old Catesby House by Gillet
of Leicester for James Attenborough; Porch and vestry of 1894. Ironstone ashlar,
tiled roof. Rectangular plan. 3-light mullioned and transomed east window with
hood mould. 2-light mullioned windows to north and south sides. Angle and side
buttresses. String courses below windows. One-bay vestry on south-east corner.
West porch timber-framed on low stone walls. Small single-light window above
porch. At apex of gable stone bellcote with single open pointed arch containing
one bell. Roof has 2 timber dormers north and south and stone coped gables with
kneelers. Interior: reset piscina and sedilia of c.1300 from Catesby Priory of 3
bays with crocketed gables and pinnacles, now framing door to vestry. Fragments
of medieval stained glass in west window. C19 stained glass in east and
south-east windows. C17 woodwork from former chapel including late C17 communion
rail with barley sugar balusters. Early C17 pulpit with tester. Jacobean panels
incorporated in pews. Some of Jacobean-style timber corbels supporting roof may
be original. Painted Royal Arms of Charles II at west end and hatchments of
Parkhurst family.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.145; Rev. S.H. Marriott, Some Notes
for a History of Catesby).

Listing NGR: SP5155559579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26653136

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]