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Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Norton, West Northamptonshire

  • All Saints: church mostly in Decorated style; three-light windows with curvilinear tracery

  • All Saints: c13 west tower with lancet windows at lower stage; Perpendicular top with battlements

  • All Saints: north arcade with octagonal piers, slightly earlier south arcade of quatrefoil piers, both Decorated; late c16 clerestory; restored 1894

  • All Saints: nave looking towards three-storeyed west screen with commandment boards now much hidden by organ & gallery

  • All Saints: Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602; alabaster with recumbent effigy; black columns, outer obelisks

  • All Saints: close up of arch from the monument to Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602, with much ribbon work

  • All Saints: effigy of Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602

  • All Saints: Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602

  • All Saints: inscription from the monument to Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602

  • All Saints: shield from the monument to Lady Elizabeth Knightley (nee Seymour), d.1602

  • All Saints: memorial to Dudley Knightley, d.1602, son of Elizabeth

  • All Saints: memorial to Elizabeth Verney, d.1633; allegorical figures on broad pillars

  • All Saints: Elizabeth Verney, d.1633; open ruff, veil flowing behind; kneeling on cushion

  • All Saints: inscription & shields from the monument to Elizabeth Verney, d.1633

  • All Saints: shield from the monument to Elizabeth Verney, d.1633

  • All Saints: memorial to Nicholas Breton, d.1624; tablet with two cherubs

  • All Saints: memorial to Anne Breton, nee Verney, d.1635; banded obelisks, skull in open pediment

  • All Saints: memorial to Nicholas Breton, d.1658 & wife Elizabeth (Knight)

  • All Saints: inscription from the monument to Nicholas Breton, d.1658

  • All Saints: brass to William Knyght, d.1501, & wife Katherine, d.1504; 'special benefactors to the church'

  • All Saints: William Knyght, d.1501; civilian dress

  • All Saints: Katherine, d.1504, wife of William Knyght; headdress with lappets

  • All Saints: brass inscription to Ann Ward, d.1631

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Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 18 January 1968

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1076507

English Heritage Legacy ID: 360809

ID on this website: 101076507

Location: All Saints' Church, Norton, West Northamptonshire, NN11

County: West Northamptonshire

Civil Parish: Norton

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire

Church of England Parish: Norton All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

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