St Mary's church is all that remains of the medieval village of Easton Neston when, following the enclosure of the land, the village was transferred to Hulcote.
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire
The church stands adjacent imposing Easton Neston House, designed by Nicholas Hawksmore for the Fermor (later Hesketh) family.
The building is a beautiful early medieval church.
The most outstanding feature is the 17th century chancel memorial to Sir George Femor and his wife. There are a number of other monuments to the Fermor-Hesketh family around the church.
The rebuilding of the house circa 1700 affected the church with a new pulpit and box pews.
The interior was again changed in the 19th and early 20th century with heraldic stained glass connecting the family to the Plantagenets, and the reorganisation of the north chapel.
The churchyard is well known for the beautiful display of snowdrops in early spring, followed by daffodils and then white cherry blossom.
Towcester, Northamptonshire
Here is a large town church that speaks of the 15th century. In 1483 Edward V, the husband of Elizabeth Woodville of nearby Grafton Regis, gave a large grant of stone from the royal quarries nearby in Whittlebury.
Tiffield , Northamptonshire
Delightful limestone church dating from the 13th century and quite possibly replacing a wooden Saxon church which existed on the site when the Domesday Book was written in 1086.
Paulerspury, Northamptonshire
There are two distinct reasons for coming here. The rare medieval wooden effigies and the association with the great nonconformist missionary William Carey (1761–1834).
