All Saints, Naseby, Northamptonshire
Description
The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Early Eriglish style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south porches, and an embattled western tower with crocketed spire containing a clock and 5 bells, dated 1633 and 1640, and bearing various inscriptions: in the south aisle is a fine Decorated piscina, and in the tower is a memorial window to the Rev. James Jones and in the chancel one to Edward Waring Ashby, who died at school, 5th December, 1872: the old copper ball, formerly surmounting a wooden staff or post on the top of the unfinished spire, and placed there about 1790 by George Ashby esq. was taken down on the restoration of the church and presented by the parish to Capt. G. A. Ashby, of this place; at his death it was purchased by R. B. Loder esq. of Maidwell, in whose garden it now stands; this relic was brought by Sir Gyles Alington from Boulogne, when that place was taken in 1544, and was first placed on the cupola of his house at Horseheath, Cambs; but on the dismantling of this building, it was purchased by Mr. Ashby; it will hold, it is said, 60 gallons: the church was thoroughly restored in 1860, when the tower was rebuilt and the spire completed; the weathercock on it is the highest thing in the county, being 760 feet above sea level; in 1891 an organ was presented by the inhabitants, as a memorial to Capt. Ashby, d. 1890: there are sittings for 400 persons.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1563.