For centuries this was an estate church to a succession of families; the Burnabys, Clerkes, and then the Henley/Eden family who successively owned the Watford Estate and Manor here.
Watford, Northamptonshire
Today much of the local land and buildings are still in Eden family ownership. All that survives of the 16/17th mansion is a pair of stranded gate piers on the road that leads to the church into the motorway valley.
The restoration of the church in the mid 19th century brought with it the handsome low box pews and the stained glass in the chancel by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Here you will also find wall monuments to both the Clerke and Eadon families.
Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire
The church of the Catesby family, whose manor is famous for the Gunpowder Plot Room where the conspirators formulated their plan, and where Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy were supposedly felled by a single shot here.
Crick, Northamptonshire
Crick is a village with the quality of an 18th century town, with a very pleasant variety of buildings, at one end stands the majestic church.
Norton, Northamptonshire
A large 14th and 15th century church with a slightly earlier tower impressively placed at the edge of the village near Norton Hall formerly a seat of the Knightley family and in the 19th century Beriah Botfield, the bibliophile.
