All Saints, Braunston, Northamptonshire

I Location

Site Location: Braunston
National Grid Reference: SP 537 661
County: traditional: Northamptonshire
now: Northamptonshire
Diocese: medieval: Lincoln
now: Peterborough from 1539
Dedication: medieval: All Hallows 1516
now (or name of monument): All Saints
Type of building/monument: Parish church

II General Description

: Exterior from E.

: Interior to E.

The medieval church was demolished in 1848, and the present one built by R. C. Hussey, using some of the old stone alongside newly quarried Warwickshire sandstone. The dressings are of limestone. The nave is of five bays with aisles to N and S, and transverse arches as well as the longitudinal ones in both nave and aisles. The chancel has a S chapel, now used as a vestry. The church was restored by Butterfield in 1874. The font is use is a 19thc. affair of coloured marbles, but a damaged and unusable Romanesque font is also kept inside the church.

V Furnishings

1. Fonts

(i)

: Font from W.

At the E end of the S nave aisle, an unlined cylindrical bowl of grey sandstone with slight traces of cable moulding at the upper rim; the entire bowl broken in two around its circumference, low down. It stands on an equally eroded cylindrical pedestal of coursed stones.

Dimensions

overall h. of font	0.78 m
h. of bowl	0.43 m
ext. diam. of bowl	0.70 m
int. diam.of bowl	0.53 m

VII History

In 1086 Braunston was held by Walter d'Aincourt, apart from 1 virgate of the Bishop of Bayeux's fief held from him by William.

Benefice of Daventry, Ashby St Ledgers, Braunston, Catesby, Hellidon, Staverton and Welton.

VIII Comments/Opinions

IX Bibliography

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth, 1961, rev. by B. Cherry, 1973, 120.
R. Wilson, Churches in and around Daventry, Market Harborough, 1999, 13-17.