Holy Cross, Daventry
Holy Cross, Daventry
Holy Cross is a Grade I parish church on Church Walk, Daventry, Northamptonshire, in the Diocese of Peterborough, and the only eighteenth-century town church in the county.
- Location
- Daventry, Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Northamptonshire
- City / town
- Daventry
- Address
- Church Walk, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 4BL
- Postcode
- NN11 4BL
- Built
- 1752–58; west porch rebuilt 1951
- Architect
- David Hiorne
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Cross
- Diocese
- Peterborough
- Parish
- Daventry Holy Cross
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Classical
- Materials
- Ironstone ashlar; rusticated ground floor
- Grid reference
- SP 575 625
- Opening hours
- March to the end of September; Tuesday 11am to 2.30pm and Friday 11am to 2.30pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1752–58 by David Hiorne in a classical design of ironstone ashlar, with a rusticated ground floor, pedimented west end, and a west tower and spire in the form of an obelisk. The nave has galleried aisles and seven round-arched windows, a modillioned cornice and a balustraded parapet. The chancel has a Venetian east window. The pedimented west porch, with a Doric order, was rebuilt in 1951.
The interior has Doric columns on pedestals, entablatures carrying arches and a ribbed vault. Heraldic glass fills two upper west windows. Monuments include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century grey and white marble wall monuments in the chancel, a finely carved gallery monument of 1707, a monument of 1741 by B. Palmer, and a gallery monument of 1800 by Cox. The church stands on the site of the medieval parish church associated with Daventry Priory.