Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1968. Church.

Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund

WRENN ID
fossil-chapel-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 January 1968
Type
Church
Address
Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund, Catesby
OS grid reference
SP 515 595
Coordinates
52.23202, -1.24654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund is a church built between 1861 and 1862 on the foundations of a 17th-century chapel associated with Old Catesby House. It was designed by Gillet of Leicester for James Attenborough, with a porch and vestry added in 1894. The chapel is constructed from ironstone ashlar and features a tiled roof with a rectangular plan.

The east side has a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a hood mould, while the north and south sides each have two-light mullioned windows. The building includes angle and side buttresses, as well as string courses beneath the windows. A one-bay vestry is located at the south-east corner. The west porch is timber-framed, resting on low stone walls, and has a small single-light window above it. At the top of the gable, there is a stone bellcote with a single open pointed arch that houses one bell. The roof features two timber dormers on the north and south sides, along with stone coped gables that have kneelers.

Inside, there is a reset piscina and sedilia from around 1300, originally from Catesby Priory, which now frame the door to the vestry. The west window contains fragments of medieval stained glass, while the east and south-east windows feature 19th-century stained glass. The interior also includes 17th-century woodwork from the former chapel, such as a late 17th-century communion rail with barley sugar balusters, an early 17th-century pulpit with a tester, and Jacobean panels incorporated into the pews. Some timber corbels supporting the roof may be original and in Jacobean style. Additionally, there are painted Royal Arms of Charles II at the west end and hatchments belonging to the Parkhurst family.

Local climate

Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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