St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley

Photo of St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley, a church in Northamptonshire, central England.

St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley

© Colin Park / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Colin Park / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley

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St Mary’s stands alone in parkland at Fawsley, its village long gone, looking out over a Capability Brown landscape of 1760s lakes toward Fawsley Hall. Inside are the alabaster tomb chests of the Knightley family, finest among them that of Sir Richard Knightley (d.1534), which still carries its original paintwork. The church is open daily, though it may shut in bad weather to keep the mud out.

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