Thorpe Malsor is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3 km) west of Kettering.
The Church of England parish church of All Saints was built late in the 13th and early in the 14th centuries.[2] In 1877 the Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe restored the church,[3] with Harry Hems of Exeter undertaking the carving.[2] All Saints parish is now part of a single benefice with the parishes of Broughton, Cransley and Loddington.[4]
The village well in the middle of the main street was sunk in 1589.[2] Thorpe Malsor Hall is a Jacobean house that was refenestrated in the 18th century and enlarged in 1817.[2]
Parish Church. Late C13, C14. Restored, and south porch and sacristy added, 1877, to the designs of Clapton Rolfe. Ironstone with limestone dressings. Stone slate, Welsh slate and slab roofs. West tower with spire, nave with clerestorey, north and south aisles, north porch, south porch and sacristy, Lady chapel, chancel. 4-stage west tower, C13 and C14, has clasping buttresses, moulded plinth and string courses, quatrefoil frieze. West side has a restored moulded doorway and above it, a C14 double lancet flanked by single cusped niches. Doorway and window have hood moulds. Third stage has a single lancet to north and south. Bell stage has on each side a double lancet bell chamber opening with
hood mould and a central mask stop. Octagonal broach spire has 2 tiers of gabled lucarnes with single and double lancets. Above, finial with
wind vane. 3-bay nave clerestory has moulded parapet and gable and on each side, 3 plain C14 lancets in flat headed openings. Aisles have
plinths, moulded string course and sill band and coped parapets. 3-bay north aisle has single 2-light Perpendicular windows with flat heads
flanking the porch. That to east has dogtooth ornament to the surround, that to west, ballflower. Both have hood moulds. West end has a single lancet. Early C20 north porch has rubble side walls on plinths and unglazed arcaded wooden sides. Gabled common rafter roof with billleted
transom and barge boards. Moulded inner doorway has band of rosettes and hood mould with mask stops. South aisle has to east a small
buttress and a C19 flat headed triple lancet. C19 priest's vestry at east end has a single lancet with hood mould. West end has a flat headed
Perpendicular 2-light window. South porch and sacristy, 1877, Early English style, has plinth, moulded string course and dogtooth eaves band,
coped gable and finials. Porch has double chamfered doorway with mask corbels and hood moulds, and above it, a small lancet. Rib vaulted
interior has wall shafts and roll moulded inner doorway with double shafts. Sacristy south side has 4 cusped lancets with hood moulds. West
end has central roll moulded doorway flanked by single niches, all with dogtooth ornament, triple shafts and impost bands. forth side has a
double side-wall stack and a spout in the form of an eagle. North east corner has a square crenellated stair turret with gargoyles and dogtooth
ornament, pyramidal lead roof and finial cross. Parapeted and gabled Lady chapel,2 bays, has trefoil frieze. North side has to east an
untraceried flat headed triple lancet and to west, a restored Geometrical double lancer. East end has a C14 triple lancet with intersecting
tracery. All the windows have hood moulds. 2-bay chancel, C14, has moulded eaves band with fleurons. East end has angle buttresses, string
course and sill band, coped gable with cross, and Decorated 4-light window with hood mould and Rash stops. South side has to left a double
transomed Perpendicular triple lancet, and to east a plain double lancet with flat head. Both windows have hood moulds. Interior: late C13
double chamfered tower arch has octagonal responds and contains elaborate C19 organ case with stencilled decoration, flanked by groups of
show pipes. Nave arcades, early and mid C14, 3 bays, have double chamfered arches with hood moulds, with stops to the north. North arcade
has quatrefoil piers with moulded bases and capitals. South arcade has octagonal piers. Clerestory windows nave C19 stained glass. C19 roof
has cambered tie beams with arch braces and traceried spandrels on mask corbels. North aisle has late C19 stained glass west and north side
windows. To the left of the doorway, a small C16 aumbry and to its right, a restored C13 piscina. East end has a double chamfered archway
with mask imposts. South aisle has C19 stained glass south and west windows, South side has to west, 2 chamfered doorways to sacristy. East
end has roll moulded C19 doorway with triple shafts to priest's vestry, which has C19 stained glass window and stone roof. Both aisles have
restored roofs with wall shafts. Lady chapel has stained glass north and east windows, 1877, the east window flanked to right by a C13 style
foiled aumbry and piscina with hood mould. South side has 2 C14 and C19 double chamfered arches separated by a pseudo-pier, that to the east with round responds, that to the west with imposts. C19 roof. Chancel has C14 double chamfered arch with octagonal responds. East end has late C19 alabaster gradine and stained glass windows c1860. South side has to east an Early English style piscina with shafts, and renewed triple
sedilia all under continuous hood mould with stops. 2 late C19 stained glass windows. Elaborate arch braced C19 roof with traceried spandrels
and angel corbels. Fittings include C14 octagonal font with crocketed ogee arches on clustered shaft stem. Semicircular C19 frescoed stone
pulpit. C19 oak altar, stalls and benches. Memorials include marble and slate pedimented tablet ,1677, and 3 C17 brasses, and large painted stone
Baroque style pedimented war memorial, 1921.
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