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St Peter's Church Northampton
Heritage Open Day: The most outstanding Romanesque church
St Peter's stands in a pretty grass churchyard in Northampton town centre, beside the buried remains of a Saxon palace. This 900-year-old Norman church is filled with glorious carved treasures. Built around 1150 AD, St Peter’s is a Grade 1 Romanesque building of national repute. The magnificent architecture includes the finely carved tower arch and decorated capitals sculpted in local stone. A 12th century highly decorated grave slab shows an elaborate ‘green man’ type head disgorging creation: foliage and animals.
This Norman building replaced a Saxon church. It was the minster ‘mother church’ of Northampton from which the settlement grew eastwards.
In the churchyard see the tomb of William Smith, the ‘Father of English Geology,’ 1851, and his fine marble memorial inside the church.
St Peter's stands in a pretty grass churchyard in Northampton town centre, beside the buried remains of a Saxon palace. This 900-year-old Norman church is filled with glorious carved treasures. Built around 1150 AD, St Peter’s is a Grade 1 Romanesque building of national repute. The magnificent architecture includes the finely carved tower arch and decorated capitals sculpted in local stone. A 12th century highly decorated grave slab shows an elaborate ‘green man’ type head disgorging creation: foliage and animals.
This Norman building replaced a Saxon church. It was the minster ‘mother church’ of Northampton from which the settlement grew eastwards.
In the churchyard see the tomb of William Smith, the ‘Father of English Geology,’ 1851, and his fine marble memorial inside the church.
Sat 13 Sep to Sunday 21 September
St Peters Church, Marefair, Northampton, Northamptonshire NN1 1SR
Sat 13 Sep:1000-1600; Sun 14 Sep:1400-1700; Sat 20 Sep:1400-1700; Sun 21 Sep:1400-1700; Free Entry.
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