Church Of St Mary And St Wilfred

The Church of St Mary and St Wilfred is a Roman Catholic church built in 1841 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Henry Howard of Corby Castle. It features red sandstone snecked ashlar walls and a slate roof with coped gables. The church has a nave consisting of four bays and a single bay chancel, along with a gabled south porch and an added sacristy on the south wall of the chancel. The nave's walls are buttressed and display alternating large and small lancet windows, with the larger windows featuring Y-shaped tracery and cusped heads. The west entrance and porch have pointed arches with moulded surrounds and hood moulds that end in mitred heads. The west gable is adorned with three lancets that have trefoil heads and hood moulds, topped by a hexagonal bellcote.

Inside, the church boasts an open timber roof that is painted and decorated with gold. There is a stone font near the south entrance and a cut-stone pulpit on the south wall of the nave, adjacent to the chancel arch. The pulpit has an entrance from the sacristy and is decorated with figurative painted panels. A corresponding niche on the north wall contains a figure of the Virgin Mary. Text is painted around the dado panels, and decorative motifs are painted on the splays of the smaller lancets. The stained glass windows, created by Harrington of London in 1860, 1865, and 1867, were presented by Philip Howard.

The chancel features a screen made of carved and painted wood, which includes a central crucifix flanked by figures of the Virgin Mary and St Wilfred. The ceiling is a decorative painted ribbed plank design, and the walls are also painted. The altar is stepped and heavily gilded, with metalwork designed by Pugin, and it is flanked by two small coronas also by Pugin. There are sedilia and a piscina in the south wall, and a recess resembling an Easter Sepulchre in the north wall contains the tomb of Henry Howard, who died in 1842. The church retains all of its original decorations, many of which are in line with Pugin's designs.