All Saints
Aldwincle, Northamptonshire
A medieval wonder in a pretty village.
It was built by Lord Lovel, Lord Chamberlain to Richard III. It is by far and away the most impressive in the county. It rises through five stages incorporating a west door, large lancet windows, gothic panels that now support the clock face, three further lancet windows, and finally turrets which form the base to a crocketed spire
The main body of the church is one of accretion from the Norman period to the present day that said this roomy church overall has in its nave a feeling for the perpendicular period and in its chancel the Victorian.
Overall it is large and airy.
The late 17th century incumbent, Revd Theophilius Pickering, his cousin John Dryden the poet, and parents are commemorated in highly unusual painted memorials by their kinswoman Mrs Creed, cousin of Samuel Pepys (other sculptural monuments to the Pickerings and Creeds are also to be found here by William Woodman and Edward Bingham). In the late 19th century another woman, Agnes Saunders, added the painted decorative cycle which winds its way around the chancel.
The Victorian windows here are by Kempe and Hardman.
