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Church of St Peter

A Grade I Listed Building in Lowick, North Northamptonshire

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  • St Peter: Perpendicular church built by Greene family from 1370-1480; approach from the south-west

  • St Peter: view from the south; tall transomed Perpendicular windows

  • St Peter: tower completed c.1470

  • St Peter: nave c.1450-1480; octagonal piers; late c15 chantry chapel to south

  • St Peter: figures in north aisle window from Tree of Jesse, 1310-1330; Joseph, Zachariah, Micah & Sir Simon de Drayton holding church (an early donor)

  • St Peter: alabaster tomb (by Pentys & Sutton of Chellaston, Derbyshire) of Sir Ralph Greene d.1417 & wife Katherine (Mallory); angels carrying shields; canopies with lierne vaults

  • St Peter: effigy of Ralph Greene, 1417; plate armour & chain mail, Greene arms on breastplate

  • St Peter: Katherine, wife of Ralph Greene, 1417; horned headdress

  • St Peter: alabaster effigy of Edward Stafford, second Earl of Wiltshire, 1499; founder of chantry chapel; heraldic tabard; maternal grandfather was Henry Greene

  • St Peter: Lancastrian SS collar from effigy of Edward Stafford, 1499

  • St Peter: Henry Greene of Drayton & wife Margaret, 1467

  • St Peter: Henry Greene, 1467; knight in tabard

  • St Peter: Margaret (Roos), wife of Henry Greene, 1467

  • St Peter: Charles Sackville, fifth Duke of Dorset, 1843; mantle hangs over tomb; coronet & seated angel

  • Front Tower, Church of St Peter

  • Gargoyle, Church of St Peter

  • Medieval Front Door, St Peters

  • Overhead door entry, St Peters

  • Greene and Sackville tombs

  • Tomb effigies: Ralph & Katherine de Greene

  • Dog at the feet of Ralph de Greene

  • Effigy orders in French for Ralph & Katherine de Greene as ordered by the latter

  • Description detail for carvers orders, effigy of de Greenes

  • Sir Simon de Drayton, 1300, the kneeling knight donor

  • Church of St Peter, Lowick, Northamptonshire

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Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 23 May 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1040265

English Heritage Legacy ID: 232540

ID on this website: 101040265

Location: St Peter's Church, Lowick, North Northamptonshire, NN14

County: North Northamptonshire

Civil Parish: Lowick

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire

Church of England Parish: Lowick St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

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