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This is a church for those who enjoy an architectural jigsaw. The exterior gives a clue to the complexity of the game.

Here is a large town church that speaks of the 15th century. In 1483 Edward V, the husband of Elizabeth Woodville of nearby Grafton Regis, gave a large grant of stone from the royal quarries nearby in Whittlebury.

The church is the early 12th century and the subterranean charnel chapel houses one of only two remaining in situ medieval ossuaries (collections of human bones) in England.

It will be primarily the late 19th and 20th century stained glass that will draw you to this small medieval church at the centre of this handsome ironstone village.

The dignified 14th century stone steeple of Olney church makes a distinctive landmark in its setting beside a bridge over the winding River Great Ouse.

Topped with rows of neat battlements like a church from a medieval fairytale, Clifton Reynes church sits at the end of its secluded village surrounded by open country, in a bend of the River Great Ouse.

A large grand church set in the heart of this village positioned on a knoll.

Despite being in the busy Nene Valley between Wellingborough and Thrapston, Irthlingborough church seen from the far side of the river retains a timeless and surprisingly isolated quality, its extraordinary tower remains the highest building in the area.

One of the outstanding late medieval churches in the county.

If All Saints Northampton is the county’s response to Wren’s London city churches, Holy Cross Daventry is that to Gibbs St Martin in the Fields.

Built by the Wrighte family in the 1720s in the style of a Georgian Reception Hall to match the development of Gayhurst Manor.

There are two distinct reasons for coming here. The rare medieval wooden effigies and the association with the great nonconformist missionary William Carey (1761–1834).