Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building located in Marholm. This church dates back to the 12th and 13th centuries, with alterations and additions made in the 15th and 16th centuries. It features a nave with Perpendicular clerestory windows and a moulded ashlar parapet. The north and south aisles and the south porch were added in the 19th century.

The large Perpendicular chancel was rebuilt in 1534 by Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, who was the Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1524. It includes battlements, large angle buttresses, and 4-light Perpendicular windows on the north and south sides, as well as a 5-light Perpendicular east window and a 4-centred arch south doorway. The chancel's south wall is made of ashlar, while the north and east walls are rendered.

The squat Norman west tower is built in three steps and features clasping buttresses, battlements, and pinnacles, topped with a pyramidal Collyweston stone roof and slit lancet bell openings. The tower is constructed of ashlar, while the rest of the church is made of stone rubble.

Inside, there is a round single stepped tower arch with crocketed capitals on the responds. The church has 13th-century three-bay arcades with double chamfered arches and quatrefoil section piers, along with a similar 13th-century dormer arch. An octagonal font, likely from the 17th century, is decorated with rose and leaf sprays on each face.

Notable monuments include a recumbent effigy of a knight from around 1400 on a largely 19th-century tomb chest, a monument to Sir William Fitzwilliam from 1534 featuring a tomb chest with a canopy on colonnettes and ogee arches, and brasses against the back wall. There are also two recumbent effigies of Sir William Fitzwilliam from 1599, and a monument to Edward Hunter alias Perry from 1646, which includes a bust of a boy over a cartouche with flanking plinths and an obelisk behind. Additionally, there is a monument to William, the First Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife from 1719, created by James Fisher of Camberwell, featuring standing figures, Corinthian columns, and an open segmental pediment.