Church

From GrendonVillage

Contents 1 About St. Mary's Church 1.1 Contact the Rector - Father David Spokes 1.2 Assistant Priest - Rev. Dr. Judy Craig Peck 1.3 Licensed Reader - Mrs Penny Brannon 1.4 A CHURCH NEAR YOU 1.5 Services 2 Historic details taken from Wikipedia

About St. Mary's Church

Grendon is part of the United Benefice of Yardley Hastings, Denton, Grendon, Castle Ashby and Whiston.

Parts of the church date back to the 12th century but sections were rebuilt/added in the 14th and 15th centuries. For a fuller history please see this entry in Wikipedia

Contact the Rector - Father David Spokes

• The Rectory, Castle Ashby Road, Yardley Hastings, Northampton. NN7 1EL
• Tel: 01604 696080
• email: mailto:mail@davidspokes.com

Assistant Priest - Rev. Dr. Judy Craig Peck

• 10, Sharplands, Grendon, Northampton. NN7 1JL
• Tel: 01933 663323

Licensed Reader - Mrs Penny Brannon

• 3 Mile Street, Bozeat, Northamptonshire NN9 1LY
• Tel : 01933 663359

A CHURCH NEAR YOU

• Grendon
• Castle Ashby
• Denton
• Yardley Hastings
• Whiston

Services

• 1st Sunday of the Month - 10.30am Family Eucharist and Sunday Club
• 2nd Sunday of the Month - 9.50am Family Service
• 3rd Sunday of the Month - Benefice Services are held in one of the churches - please call for details or see the Parish News Magazine.
• 4th Sunday of the Month - 6.00pm Youth Worship
• 5th Sunday of the Month - 10.30am Benefice service in one of the benefice churches

• Wednesdays 9.30am - Holy Communion

Historic details taken from Wikipedia

On the church, Sir Nicholas Pevsner says, "The first three bays on both sides are Late Norman. Next in order of time the late 12th century doorway with one order of shafts carrying simple moulded capitals and an arch with a thick roll moulding. Early 13 century the simple north doorway close to a pair of lancets. Money was left to the campanile in 1453."

Other features include:

• A book of commemoration for the eight parishioners killed in the two world wars
• A wooden bier
• An oak pulpit dating from 1908
• A Victorian lead lined font
• A medieval squint cut through the wall to give a view of the altar during mass
• A memorial plaque to Thomas Willoughby of nether Grendon (Lower End)
• A three seat sedilla set into the stone wall which was used by the priest, the deacon and sub-deacon
• Set into the south wall is a 13th century piscina used by priests to rinse their hands during mass
• Set into the floor, a 15th century brass of an unknown and unnamed woman set between two husbands dressed in the armour of the type used at the Battle of Bosworth Field