A large grand church set in the heart of this village positioned on a knoll.
Everdon, Northamptonshire
Before rushing inside stray round the back as here you will not only get a very good view but also encounter the gothic south porch which is particularly handsome and well decorated. Then back to the north porch and inside.
It strikes you as a huge space, one which would have inspired late 18th century watercolourists like Girton or Cotman. Their eye would certainly have been caught by the unusual elevated balcony high up at the back of the nave. Lower down they would have observed the 14th century stone screen with its delicate tracery which still lies between nave and chancel.
The very scale of this interior makes you stop and think what was it that inspired the medieval mind at Everdon to create such a building. The 19th century intervened twice, first with a sensitive restoration of the chancel in 1862-3 by the local boy Giles Gilbert Scott, who was born just over the Buckinghamshire border at Gawcott in 1839. Then in the early 1890s Bodley and Garner provided very good choir stalls, the lectern and then the organ.
The contemporary windows are Burliston & Grylls. There is one good Jacobean wall monument to Thomas Spencer by Jasper Horremans 1606.
Fawsley, Northamptonshire
A romantic church that stands alone, shorn of its former medieval village, looking out across the Capability Brown landscape of 1760’s toward Fawsley Hall, the seat of the Knightley family and now a country hotel.
Farthingstone, Northamptonshire
It will be primarily the late 19th and 20th century stained glass that will draw you to this small medieval church at the centre of this handsome ironstone village.
Dodford, Northamptonshire
