St Peter and St Paul, Brockhall, Northamptonshire

I Location

Site Location: Brockhall
National Grid Reference: SP 633 627
County: traditional: Northamptonshire
now: Northamptonshire
Diocese: medieval: Lincoln
now: Peterborough from 1539
Dedication: medieval: not confirmed
now (or name of monument): St Peter and St Paul
Type of building/monument: Parish church

II General Description

: Exterior from SE

The church has a nave with a 13thc. south aisle extended west alongside the tower, no clerestorey, a chancel and west tower. The 13thc. nave arcade is three bays long. In the aisle is a late-12thc. doorway under a porch. The north doorway is later and has no porch. The tower is 13thc. in its lower parts, with early 14thc. bell-openings. Construction is of stone rubble. The only Romanesque element is the plain S doorway.

III Exterior Features

1. Doorways

(i) S nave doorway

: S doorway

: S doorway, E impost

Round headed, two orders. Both orders have plain chamfered arches and jambs. The impost blocks are holllow chamfered with a double roll below a fillet on the face. Both orders share a monolithic impost on either jamb, but the front faces are cut back. The label is plain and chamfered.

Dimensions

h. of opening	2.24 m
w. of opening	1.16 m

VII History

William held Brockhall from the Count of Mortain in 1086. No church was noted.

Benefice of Heyford with Stowe Nine Churches and Flore with Brockhall.

VIII Comments/Opinions

The doorway dates from c.1200.

IX Bibliography

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth, 1961, rev. by B. Cherry, 1973, 127f.