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1. St Peter and St Paul, Abington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The church has a 13thc. chancel as shown by a small lancet in the N wall, now opening into the N chapel. There is a S chapel too, and both now give onto a wide, approximately square nave. This had aisles originally but after a storm in 1821 they were removed and the present nave created. The windows in the side walls are large and pointed with gothick Y-tracery. The wooden gallery at the west end dates from 1924. The nave has N and S doorways; the S of c.1200 under a porch, the N slightly later, single-order, continuous, pointed and chamfered and completely plain. This now gives access to an L-shaped suite of modern vestries and offices that surrounds the NW angle of the nave, abutting the N wall of the west tower. The tower arch from the nave is of c.1200, and the tower itself is very tall and of four slightly stepped storeys with a blocked c.1200 window in the S wall of the third storey. The fourth storey is Perpendicular with transomed bell-openings and battlements. The Romanesque features described here are the S doorway and the tower arch.
2. St Leonard, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Leonard's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with arcades and aisle windows of c.1300 and the clerestorey a Perpendicular addition. The chancel is substantially of c.1300, but much restored. The W tower is 12thc. with plain round headed lancets at ground storey level, but bell-openings dating from the 13thc. The W doorway is also early 13thc., and in front of it is a Perpendicular west porch. The N nave doorway is late 12thc. but blocked: the S doorway is 13thc. and protected by a porch. Construction is of ashlar with a rubble W tower. There was a restoration in the 1870s and another in 1881-82 by J. M. Townsend. Romanesque interest centres on the boldly carved early 12thc. font and the N doorway.
3. St John the Baptist, Barnack, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St John the Baptist's church has an early 11thc. W tower with an octagonal upper storey and broach spire of c. 1200, an 11thc. nave to which aisles were added, the N in the late 12thc. and the S, along with its porch, in the 13thc. The chancel has a 12thc. N chapel and a broad S chapel (the Walcot Chapel) of c. 1500. The chancel was lengthened and a wider chancel arch built c. 1300. Shortly afterwards the E part of the S nave aisle was widened to form a chapel, and the N chancel chapel was also rebuilt at this time, with a vestry added to the E of it. There was a major restoration in 1853-55, which included the removal of a 13thc. wall blocking the tower arch and the strengthening of the tower walls with iron bands. In the 1935-37 restoration these bands were removed and a number of openings unblocked.
4. St Botolph, Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Botolph's consisted originally of nave and chancel with a central tower, all of the early 12thc. Original nave windows, now blocked, are visible on the N and S walls inside. To this nave was added a 13thc. S aisle, two bays long, and this was rebuilt by Carpenter and Ingelow in 1878 as a second nave with a second, broad chancel to the E. The original nave received a clerestorey of trefoil lights in spherical triangles, probably c.1300. The central tower retains its narrow E and W arches, with important carved capitals, but the space beneath it has been converted into a vestry and organ loft, with the original chancel serving as a small chapel. Inside this is splendid wall arcading with naturalistic foliage capitals of c.1300. When visited, the second nave and chancel to the S had been arranged for a concert, with the stage in the chancel and auditorium occupying both the original nave and the new one. The plain font may be 12thc. On the exterior, some herringbone masonry is visible in the N walls of the tower and chancel. Early 12thc. sculpture survives on the N nave doorway, with its figural tympanum, and the elaborate windows on the N wall of the tower, nave and chancel. The 12thc. tower itself is of three storeys, undivided by string courses; the bell-openings are of the early 14thc., and the parapet still later.
5. Holy Trinity, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (redundant)
The church is set in woodland, alongside the stables of Blatherwycke Hall (the house was demolished in 1948). The nave has an early 12thc. S doorway, and must date from that time. A two-bay N aisle has been added, the arcade of c.1200 but the aisle itself widened in the 19thc. There is no clerestorey, but the interior is bright owing to the large 14thc. windows in the S wall. The chancel has a three-bay N aisle, the arcade 13thc. The W tower is slender and unbuttressed, dating from early in the 12thc. The plain W doorway and plain windows in the N, Sand W walls (not described) attest to this, as does the E bell-opening (the rest are later). Construction is of grey stone blocks, roughly shaped and coursed.
6. St Peter with St James, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
Brackley is a town in the far S of the county, sited in a loop of the Great Ouse, which forms the border with Buckinghamshire. It is an ancient site on the main road from Northampton to Oxford, and evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlement has been found in the town. There seem to have been two centres to it; one around St Peter's church towards the E of the present town, and the other on its southern edge, overlooking the river, around the site of the Norman castle, of which a motte 3m high and 40m in diameter survives.
7. St Laurence, Brafield-on-the-Green, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Laurence's has a three-bay aisled nave without clerestoreys. The N aisle and arcade date from 1850, the S has elaborately carved 12th-13thc. capitals, at the very least heavily restored in the 19thc., carried on piers of a variety of forms. The arches above are 13thc. The chancel was rebuilt by J. M. Derrick in 1848, with no chapels or vestries. The W tower is 12thc. in its lower stages, with a plain 12thc. doorway to the S, but heavy buttresses and a top storey were added, probably in the 15thc. In 1999 a kitchen and lavatory block was added to the N of the tower, communicating with the N aisle. The church also contains a font, stylistically 12thc. but suspiciously crisp and regularly carved.
8. St Andrew, Brigstock, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (benefice of Brigstock with Stanion and Lowick and Sudborough)
Brigstock is toward the N of the county, 6 miles NE of Kettering. It is a substantial village lying in the valley of Harper's Brook, a tributary of the river Nene. The settlement is an ancient one, and a good deal of Roman material has been found around the village. It is within Rockingham forest; a royal hunting ground created by William I, but by no means entirely wooded even then. The church is in the centre of the village, alongside the brook. St Andrew's has a tall 11thc. nave with a blocked window remaining in the N wall. N and S aisles have been added, with three-bay arcades; the two western bays of the N arcade 12thc., the E bay and the entire S arcade are 14thc. The S doorway is of c.1200, under a Perpendicular porch. The chancel arch is tall and Perpendicular, but the chancel itself has a N chapel with a two-bay 13thc. arcade and a S chapel now housing the organ. The N chapel contains the tomb of Robert Vernon, first Baron Lyveden (d.1873) with a marble effigy. The nave aisles extend westward alongside the tower, and it is this for which the church is known. The tower arch is tall and round-headed; the tower originally short and of rubble with long-and-short quoins. There is a rough round-headed window high on the N face. A round stair turret is attached to the W wall, entered from within by a triangular-headed doorway. A completely plain round-headed arch, probably 12thc., links the tower and the N aisle extension. To the 11thc. tower has been added a 14thc. storey of ashlar and a broach spire with three rows of lucarnes. The church was restored by Carpenter (1876-77). The tower arch is described here, although it is probably pre-Conquest. Also recorded are the 12thc. parts of the N arcade and the S doorway.
9. All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints, Brixworth is essentially an Anglo-Saxon church, described by Clapham as 'perhaps the most imposing architectural memorial of the seventh century surviving north of the Alps'. The date is based on the 12thc. Peterborough chronicle of Hugh Candidus, who attributed its foundation to Cuthbald, abbot from 675. Fernie (1983) preferred a date between 800 and 860 on the basis of continental parallels, particularly for the exterior ring crypt, the square choir bay preceding the apse, and the probable original form of the wall between nave and choir. The church has a long, unaisled nave of four bays, these marked by wall arches of brick now containing windows. These arches originally led into flanking spaces divided into porticus. East of the nave is the square choir bay, now entered under a broad 15thc. arch, and east of this the apse with three windows. From the exterior the apse is polygonal, but this is a 10thc. modification; it was originally semicircular. Here too can be seen the remains of the ring crypt, original to the design and formerly barrel-vaulted. On the S side of the square choir bay is a chapel of c.1300. At the west end signs of a late 10thc. remodelling are also visible. The west porch was heightened into a tower and a window into the nave added, and on the west wall of the tower a stair turret was added. The tower was heightened again and a spire added in the 14thc. The church is included here on the grounds of a late-Romanesque doorway inserted into the west arch on the S side of the nave.
10. St James, Brackley, Magdalen College School, Northamptonshire, England

School chapel (formerly chapel to the Hospital of St James and St John)
Brackley is a town in the far S of the county, sited in a loop of the Great Ouse, which forms the border with Buckinghamshire. It is an ancient site on the main road from Northampton to Oxford, and evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlement has been found in the town. There seem to have been two centres to it; one around St Peter's church towards the E of the present town, and the other on its southern edge, overlooking the river, around the site of the Norman castle, of which a motte 3m high and 40m in diameter survives. The church is a long single-celled building with a short tower attached to the N side, W of centre. There is no chancel arch, but the extent of the original chancel is marked by an arcade of four bays on the N wall, now blocked but originally giving onto a chapel. There was apparently another chapel on the N side of the nave, W of the tower, where a tall quatrefoil-section pier survives with the first few voussoirs of vault-ribs above its capital. The exterior masonry is much disturbed on the S side, where blocked doorways and a total lack of fenestration at the W end indicate the removal of conventual buildings which communicated with the church. An elaborate late-12thc. W doorway is the earliest dateable feature of the fabric, but most of the remainder suggests a 13thc. date, including the W window, the triple-lancets of the chancel S wall, and the simple lancets of the tower. Construction is of stone rubble. There was a restoration in 1869-70 by Buckeridge. The only Romanesque features are the W doorway and the font, both of c.1200.
11. St Peter and St Paul, Brockhall, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
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.
12. St Andrew, Broughton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Andrew's has a clerestoreyed and aisled nave with three-bay 14thc. arcades. The chancel and its arch are 14thc. too, as are the clerestorey and the aisle windows. The chancel was in fact rebuilt in 1828. The W tower is of c.1300, and has a broach spire. What remains of the 12thc. church is the masonry at the SW angle of the nave and the S doorway, now reset and protected by a porch.
13. St Mary Magdalene, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The church of St Mary Magdalene stands in the Castle Ashby estate, with access through the S entrance for the parish, and through the N entrance for the house. It has a three-bay aisled nave with Perpendicular arcades; the N aisle extended eastwards to form a chapel with an arch from the chancel. This has a N vestry, and there is a Perpendicular W tower with a lead ogee roof. There are nave doorways to N and S, both under porches, and the N porch entrance is treated as a 12thc. doorway using some Romanesque stones but incorporating a good deal of 19thc. material too. The exterior is faced in small grey stone blocks, roughly shaped and coursed.
14. St Kyneburgha, Castor, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Kyneburgha's is described by Pevsner as the most important Norman parish church in the county (i.e. Huntingdonshire). An aisleless cruciform church was built in the early 12thc. and dedicated in 1124. In the 1220s a S aisle was added and the chancel replaced; in the 1260s the S transept was replaced by a large chapel with an E aisle; and early in the 14thc. a N aisle was added. A broach spire was added to the tower around 1350, and the nave clerestoreys were inserted in the mid-15thc. The tower is of ashlar, the rest of the church of stone rubble.
15. St Peter, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Peter's has a three-bay aisled and clerestoreyed nave with late medieval arcades whose capitals are ornamented with heads and shields. The chancel is also elaborate, with 13thc. blind arcading on the side walls. The arch of a N chapel cuts into the arcading, but the chapel itself was replaced by a vestry in 1869. W is a tall Perpendicular tower of three storeys. The late-12thc. N and S doorways remain: the S more elaborate and protected by a porch. Construction is of grey limestone in rough little blocks, with larger blocks of ironstone used as quoins and facings, more liberally on the tower than elsewhere.
16. St Denys, Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Denys has a nave without aisles but with a clerestorey on the S side. It retains its wooden W gallery, now housing the organ. It has a W tower, a chancel with a 19thc. E window in a 14thc. style and porches covering the N and S nave doorways. The N porch was converted into a vestry in 1881, and the N doorway retains some of its 12thc. sculpture. The S porch is dated 1696. A stained glass window installed by the vicar Gregory Bateman in 1882 in memory of his wife shows the interior and exterior of the church.
17. St Andrew, Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (benefice of Warmington, Tansor and Cotterstock and Fotheringhay and Southwick)
Cotterstock is in the N of the county, a mile N of Oundle. It is a crossing point of the river Nene, but consists of little more than the church, a hall, a mill and a few houses ranged along a minor road. The church is alongside the river and has a W tower, an aisled nave with a vaulted south porch, and a large three-bay Decorated chancel. The only 12thc. feature is the re-set W tower doorway.
18. St Mary, Dallington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has a nave with N and S aisles and Perpendicular clerestoreys. The arcades are both of the 13thc. and very similar, of four bays of which the W bays on either side are very narrow. The reset nave doorways are of c.1200; the N unprotected, the S, of two orders with nook-shafts, under a porch. The S aisle was rebuilt in 1877, and the chancel in 1883. On the N side of the chancel is the Raynsford Chapel (now used as a vestry), built in 1679 in a gothic style and containing family monuments of some pretensions. The W tower is of four slightly stepped storeys, the lowest three of c.1200 to judge from a blocked window in the S wall. The top storey is Perpendicular. Romanesque features recorded here are the N and S doorways.
19. St Mary, Duddington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has a nave with three-bay aisles and a clerestorey. The two E bays of the N arcade are round-headed with scallop capitals and chevron on the arches, c.1150-70. The corresponding bays on the S are slightly later, with waterleaf and chamfered arch orders. The third bay on each side is an addition of c.1225. The tower stands at the E end of the S aisle, the bay below it now housing the organ. It is later 12thc. in its lower parts, with a simple S doorway and a plain window above. The S nave doorway is late 12thc. and stands under a porch. The N porch has been blocked and converted into a vestry. The chancel is described by Pevsner as 'an over-restoration of 1844.' Romanesque sculpture is found in the E bays of both arcades, the two S doorways and the S tower window.
20. All Saints, Earl's Barton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The well-known Anglo-Saxon W tower, which is profusely decorated with raised flat bands (lesenes), may originally have formed the nave of the church. The present nave is essentially Norman, but has added aisles with late-13thc. or early-14thc. arcades and Dec. windows. The chancel is also Norman, but was lengthened in the 13thc. Romanesque features described here are the blind arcading and sedilia within the chancel, with their associated stringcourses and some re-set chevron voussoirs or jamb-stones; the south nave doorway and the tower and chancel arches.
21. St Michael and All Angels, Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
Romanesque interest at St Michael's centres on the W tower; constructed of bands of ironstone and grey stone in its lower parts, and originally unbuttressed but with diagonal buttresses and a plinth course added. The top storey is of rubble and has 14thc. windows and a battlement. Inscriptions supply the names of two churchwardens and the date 1654, which must correspond to a restoration. 12thc. work surviving here comprises the W doorway and the tower arch, both extremely plain. For the rest, the nave is aisled with 13thc. arcades of three bays and a later clerestorey. The chancel is narrow with S chapel (now a vestry) as wide as the nave aisle and almost as long, and there are signs of a rood loft inside, and a stair turret for it in the angle between nave and chancel on the N side.
22. St Michael and All Angels, Great Creaton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Michaels has a nave with a S aisle, added in 1857, and no clerestorey, chancel with a N organ niche, and a short 14thc. W tower. The S arcade is of three bays and there is no nave doorway on this side. The N doorway, under a porch, is of c.1200 and is the only Romanesque feature of the church.
23. All Saints, Great Addington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with 13thc. three-bay arcades, an early-14thc. chancel with a contemporary N chapel, now housing the organ, and a 19thc. N vestry. The W tower is also early 14thc. with a later parapet. Romanesque interest centres on the S porch entrance, an elaborate reset work of the late 12thc. The plain and slightly later N doorway is also included.
24. St Mary, Grendon, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with four-bay arcades. In each arcade the two western bays are 12thc., and the two eastern bays 14thc. The short 12thc. nave seems to have been lengthened eastwards in the 14thc., and the clerestorey was added at that time. There are two doorways: the 12thc. S doorway is elaborate and protected by a porch; the 13thc. N doorway very plain and unprotected. The chancel and its arch are also 14thc. The W tower is 15thc. (money was left for the fabric of the 'campanile' in 1453) and of five storeys, the two lowest with ashlar bocks in alternately brown ironstone and grey limestone courses. Above this the ashlar is newer and appears 19thc. The clock is dated 1862. The nave, aisles and chancel are faced in stone rubble. Romanesque sculpture is found in the W bays of both arcades and the S doorway.
25. All Saints, Hargrave, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The largely 13thc. church has a W tower with a broach spire, an aisled nave of four bays, a N transept and a square-ended chancel. The tower was rebuilt in 1868-70. The only feature described here is the S doorway, protected by a porch.
26. All Saints, Harpole, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with four-bay arcades of c.1300 and a Perpendicular clerestorey. The S doorway, reset under a porch, is 12thc., but the N doorway is 13thc. The chancel is also 12thc., with an original priest's doorway, although Perpendicular windows were added on the south. The chancel arch is 12thc. but remade with a pointed arch c.1300. On the N of the chancel is a chapel of the late 13thc., now housing the organ, and there is a vestry to the E of this. The W tower is 13thc. except for a later parapet. The tower is of rubble; the remainder of ashlar. Romanesque features are the S nave and chancel doorways, the chancel arch, and an elaborately carved font.
27. St Botolph, Helpston, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Botolph's has an aisled, clerestoreyed nave with N and S doorways, the S under a porch; aisleless chancel with a N boiler-room, and a W tower with a spire. The tower, 12thc. in its lower parts, was rebuilt in 1864-65 under the direction of Edward Browning, and at that time Anglo-Saxon foundations were discovered. The S aisle, with its two-bay arcade, was added in the early 13thc., and the N in the mid 13thc. The S doorway, under a 14thc. porch (rebuilt in 1901), belongs stylistically to c.1200, but might be contemporary with the S arcade. The N doorway has been blocked, probably in 1864-65. Around 1300 short bays on corbels were added at the E end of each arcade, and the chancel rebuilt. The chancel windows are dated 1609. At the W end, the aisles flank the tower, but the tower arches to N and S are 19thc. copies of 12thc. work. The tower's lowest storey is square; a chamfer in the 2nd storey produces an octagonal plan, which is maintained for two further storeys. On top is a short stone spire with a single row of lucarnes. Construction is of ashlar except for the chancel, of roughly coursed stone. Romanesque features are the tower arch responds and capitals (the arch is later) and the S doorway.
28. All Saints, Laxton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints owes a great deal to the restoration by Lord Carbery (d.1894). From the exterior it appears to be a 19thc. church, apart from the late 13thc. W tower and broach spire. Inside, the nave has a three-bay 13thc. S arcade and a 19thc. N arcade. The clerestorey consists of a single central dormer window on each side; clearly an idea of Lord Carbery's. The chancel is 19thc. The S nave doorway, under a porch, is also 19thc. work, but contains reused 12thc. material and is described below. There is no N doorway.
29. St Mary the Virgin, Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England

Chapel
St Mary's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with three-bay arcades. Of these bay 1 of the S arcade is 13thc. and may, according to Pevsner, have been a transept arch originally. The rest of the S arcade and the entire N arcade are either 19thc. in their entirety or heavily restored work of the years around 1300. The clerestorey windows are 14thc. The S aisle has been extended E alongside the chancel to form a chapel, now in use as an organ loft and vestry. The chancel also belongs to c.1300. At the E end the lowest part of a tower remains, including a 14thc. window. The spire had fallen in 1703, and most of the remainder was demolished in 1967. In its place a bellcote was built on top of the west gable. A date stone of 1601 over the S doorway presumably records a restoration. The church is of ironstone and grey stone in roughly-coursed blocks. The only Romanesque feature is the elaborate late 12thc. S doorway.
30. St Mary the Virgin, Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has a clerestoreyed nave of three bays with 19thc. arcades. In fact, although both arcades appear the same, the N aisle dates from Buckeridge's 1873 restoration, while the S arcade was only restored at that date. The S aisle extends W halfway along the tower, while the N aisle stops at the tower junction. A vestry has recently been added alongside the tower on the N. At the E end of the nave, the aisles extend to form chapels alongside the chancel, the N deeper than the S. Both have arches from the chancel; the N arch 19thc., the S late medieval.
31. St Mary, Maidwell, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has an aisleless nave with plain 12thc. N and S doorways, both under porches but the N porch blocked off and converted into a vestry. The chancel is entirely 19thc. (by St Aubyn, 1891), with big niches to N and S. The N niche contains the 1634 tomb of Katherine Lady Gorges (d.1633); the N contains the organ. The west tower is 13thc. and unbuttressed but has shafts at the angles. Its bell-openings date from 1705. The church is faced with grey rubble except for the chancel, of regularly coursed brown sandstone.
32. All Saints, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave of four bays with arcades and S aisle windows of c.1300 but Perpendicular windows in the clerestorey and the N aisle. The chancel has a plain 12thc. doorway, and there is another, more elaborate but not much, re-set in the S nave aisle under a Perpendicular porch. A N vestry has been added to the chancel. At the W is a low tower with a bell stage of c.1250-1300. Construction is of irregular stone (aisles and tower) or ashlar (clerestorey and chancel). Included here are the S doorway and the font.
33. St Mary the Virgin, Moreton Pinkney, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's is a church of nave, chancel and W tower. The nave is aisled with three-bay arcades, the N late 12thc., the S 13thc. The roof has been heightened and there is a late medieval clerestorey. The chancel arch is 13thc. as is the chancel stylistically, but it was entirely rebuilt by Sir Henry Dryden in 1846. The tower is of three storeys, 13thc. except for the battlement. The N and S nave doorways are both under porches; the N doorway being contemporary with the N arcade and the N porch dated 1649. Construction is of stone rubble except for the clerestorey and the rebuilt chancel, both of ashlar. Romanesque features are the N doorway, N arcade and font.
34. St Mary the Virgin and All Saints, Nassington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
It is evident that the nave is Anglo-Saxon, since it has a blocked triangular-headed window high in its W wall. A tower was added by the late 12thc. (to which the tower arch belongs), and the reset N doorway dates from the same period. Aisles were added to the nave with four-bay arcades dating from the late 13thc. The aisles have been extended W alongside the tower, incorporating fragments of 13thc. dogtooth, and these spaces are now used as vestries.
35. Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The core of the church is the original circular nave, now called the Round, with an annular aisle and an arcade supported on eight columns with early Romanesque capitals of various designs. The aisle wall retains one original respond with its capital. The columns now support chamfered pointed arches carrying an octagonal clerestorey wall pierced by square-headed double lights. This upper section belongs to a rebuilding of c.1375. To the E of the Round and reached by steps was originally the Romanesque unaisled chancel, terminating in an apse, and this remains as the nave and chancel of the present church. A two-bay N aisle was added to it c.1200. A second N aisle was added later, and in the 14thc. a S aisle was added. As it stands, therefore, the church has four parallel naves, terminating at their E ends with (from N to S) a vestry, the Chapel of St Thomas, the chancel with an apse, and the Chapel of St George, but it will be seen that much of the fabric is 19thc. At the W end, the original W doorway was demolished and a tower with a spire added in the 14thc. By the 17thc. only the Round was in regular use, and the rest of the church fell into disrepair. The choir and the outer N aisle were demolished. In 1851 the tower was struck by lightning, and in that year George Gilbert Scott was engaged to carry out a thorough restoration of the entire church. He rebuilt what had been lost, including the outer N aisle and the chancel with its flanking chapels, and the church was reopened in 1864. The vestry at the end of the N outer aisle was added in 1887. The Romanesque sculpture falls into two groups. The main arcade piers and their capitals belong to the original fabric of c.1110, as does the single remaining aisle wall vault respond. To these must be attached a small tympanum now set inside the aisle wall, and the corbels of the original chancel (now visible high on the inner walls of the S and inner N aisles). The N doorway of the Round is of c.1170-80.
36. St Giles, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The church of St Giles is a large cruciform building with a crossing tower. The tower is 12thc. in its lower parts and has crossing arches to E and W only. To the N and S are plain walls now; the arches were blocked after the upper part of the tower collapsed in 1613. Rebuilding was from 1616, and included the E bays of the N nave arcade and the clerestorey as well as the tower. The aisled and clerestoreyed nave has arcades of five bays, the three E bays originally 14thc. (and still 14thc. on the S), the two western ones added in 1853-55, when the 12thc. W doorway was reset. The nave aisles extend E alongside the tower, replacing the 12thc. transepts. On the N side of the nave an extra aisle, a bay shorter than the main aisles, was added in the 19thc. The present chapel contains 13thc. lancets in the N and S walls, and is offset slightly to the N from the line of the nave and crossing. It has N and S chapels, both 14thc. The 1853-55 work is by E. F. Law, following a report of 1840 by G. G. Scott. The N transept now contains lavatories and a crèche. Romanesque work is found in the two arches of the crossing and the reset W doorway. The crossing arches were unblocked in 1853-55 and rebuilt on the basis of the remains of the E arch, but the present author has identified no 12thc. work in either arch. They are described below on the assumption that they are a fair copy of at least part of what was there before.
37. St Peter, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Peter's is the finest 12thc. church in the county, and its capital sculpture is one of the highlights of the Romanesque in England. There is no structural division between nave and chancel, and the exterior treatment is uniform throughout the length of the building except for the low W tower. Nave and chancel are aisled and decorated externally at clerestorey level with blind arcading and a corbel table. Within there is no chancel arch; the division between nave and chancel being marked by a low step and the position of the choirstalls. The chancel arcades are of three bays, and both aisles are now used as vestries. In both nave and chancel the clerestorey windows are fairly regularly spaced, but their spacing is greater than a bay but less than two, so their positions vary in relation to the piers. The chancel has no provision for vaulting or roof support whereas in the nave every second pier has a respond on the nave side, running up the wall to a capital at the top, and a transverse arch respond on the aisle side. The nave aisle arches are gone now, but arch springings are sometimes visible. Intermediate piers are cylindrical. The nave arcades are five bays long (two and a half double bays), and the beginning of another bay at the W end of either arcade indicates that the nave was originally longer. It was shortened from six bays in the 17thc. when the W tower was rebuilt approximately 3m E of its original position. There are N and S nave doorways, the N under a porch.
38. St Pega, Peakirk, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Pega's has a clerestoreyed nave with N and S aisles and W bell-cote, and a chancel with N chapel and vestry which together extend the N aisle to the E wall as the chancel. The nave is tall and narrow, with long-and-short quoins at the SW angle which suggest an 11thc. date. The N arcade dates from the 12thc., and the S arcade from the 13thc. The N chapel arch and the chancel arch are later 12thc, the latter perhaps in its lower parts only. The exterior is faced with ashlar blocks; regular in the S aisle, irregular elsewhere. Romanesque features are the nave doorways, the S elaborate and protected by a 14thc. porch, the N plain and unprotected; the N nave arcade, chancel arch and N chapel arch; the W bell-cote, and a loose capital now in the N aisle.
39. St James, Pilton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The church has a clerestoreyed nave with N and S aisles; the S arcade13thc., the N apparently a modern copy. The chancel dates from 1862-64. The W tower dates from the end of the 13thc., with Y-traceried bell-openings and a broach spire with two rows of lucarnes. It was restored in 1896. The reset S nave doorway, now under a 13thc. porch, is the only 12thc. feature.
40. All Saints, Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints has an aisled nave with five-bay arcades, a chancel and a W tower. All of this is by Slater and Carpenter, dating from 1867-68, except the N nave aisle and the W tower, which are early 14thc. The only 12thc. feature is the important S doorway, with its figural tympanum. This is set under a 19thc. porch.
41. All Saints, Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
The church comprises an aisled nave, having a tower with a stone spire on its SW bay, N and S transepts and a square-ended chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway, the arches to the chancel and the N transept, the N nave arcade, and a length of string course and a corbel reused as a water spout on the N porch.
42. St Mary, Roade, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has a chancel with a S vestry, a central tower and a nave with a 19thc. N aisle and no clerestorey and a S doorway under a porch. The N nave doorway now communicates with a church hall, added in 1972 to replace the old church institute, dating from 1886, which had fallen into disrepair. The original aisleless nave and chancel are mid-12thc. work, to judge from the small round-headed lancets in the chancel and the S nave doorway, with beakhead decoration. The tower, a substantial structure of stone rubble, is presumably contemporary, but the pointed lancets and the spacious triple arcading on the N and S walls suggest a remodelling around 1200, while the transomed, trefoil-headed double bell-openings of the upper storey must date from the 15thc. The nave roof collapsed in 1660, and in 1669 it was re-roofed and new windows put in the S wall. At the same time one of the tower arches was bricked up, and only a small door provided to give access between nave and chancel. In 1822 the chancel was still walled off from the nave, and was in use as a Sunday School. The partition was eventually taken down in 1840. Meanwhile the nave was repaired in 1822, when the floor level was raised and a gallery was added at the W end. The N aisle was added in 1850. The tower was restored in 1856, and the chancel in 1857 by E. F. Law, including re-roofing with the present high-pitched roof. The nave roof was raised to match the chancel roof in 1864. The S vestry was added in 1879. A major restoration of the tower took place in 1949-50, and in 1950 the interior of the church was restored. A further restoration of the exterior took place in 1981. Features described here are the S nave doorway and the tower arcading.
43. Holy Trinity, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (benefice of Rothwell with Orton and Rushton with Glendon and Pipewell)
Rothwell is a small town towards the N of the county, 3 miles W of Kettering on the A14, where it crosses the A6 to Market Harborough and Leicester. The church is in the centre of town, and is the longest in the county at 173 feet. Its building history is a complex one and can only be sketched here. The Norman church was cruciform, and the size of the crossing piers indicates that there was once a central tower. The nave is now of four bays, with early 13thc. arcades which have been heightened, possibly when the aisles were widened. The W tower arch, of c.1280-1300, suggests that this was done before that date. The W tower itself is earlier, c.1170-80 in its lower parts, and this includes the arch of the W doorway, re-set on early 13thc. embrasures. The tower was raised by a storey, and a spire added but this fell in 1660, taking with it (according to Bridges) six bays of the church. The tower is now capped by a low pyramid roof with a spike. The Norman chancel wall survives on the S, with a corbel table marking the original height and three round-headed windows below it. Four-bay chapels were added on either side, perhaps in the 13thc., but the two easternmost S chapels have been removed. Further chapels have been removed from the S walls of the S transept, and of the remaining S chapels. The church was lengthened eastwards in the 15thc., and at the same time a clerestorey added to the nave and transept. Construction is of ironstone. The church was extensively restored at the expense of the parish between 1900 and 1906.
44. St Andrew, Spratton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Andrew's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with four-bay arcades; the N of the late 12thc., the S 13thc. with pointed arches and moulded capitals. The N and S doorways are 12thc., the N doorway under a porch. The aisle windows are renewed in an early 14thc. style. At the E end of the nave, above the chancel arch, is a large blocked window, apparently 14thc. The chancel has 14thc. sedilia. On the N side of the chancel, and separated from it by a two-bay arcade, is a chapel added by John Chambre between 1495 and 1505, now housing the organ and a vestry. This extends the N nave aisle as far as the E end of the chancel, but is screened from it. There is a 12thc. W tower with a contemporary tower arch. It is of three storeys; the lowest containing an elaborate W doorway and a blind arcade on the W face only, the next decorated with blind arcading, and the topmost with double bell-openings flanked by blind arches and a corbel table at the top. The belfry-stage lancets are Scott's replacements of Decorated windows (see Parker). It has a later recessed spire behind a battlemented parapet. The church was restored by Scott before 1849.
45. St Michael, Stowe Nine Churches (Church Stowe), Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
Stowe Nine Churches is made up of Church Stowe and Upper Stowe (formerly Great and Little Stowe). St Michael's has a nave, chancel and W tower. There are aisles extending from the W wall of the tower to the E wall of the chancel. Inside, this curious arrangement resolves to nave aisles with three-bay arcades and two-bay chancel chapels on either side. All the arcading appears to be 19thc. In the chancel, the N chapel contains a Purbeck tomb, reputedly of Sir Gerard de l'Isle (d.1287), and the S the tomb of Lady Elizabeth Carey (d.1630), with an effigy made by Nicholas Stone ten years earlier. A vestry has been added to the N chancel chapel. In the nave there are N and S doorways, the S under a porch, the N blocked and overgrown. Battlements have been added to the nave, but no clerestorey. The original nave has the tall proportions of the 11thc., and the tower arch is certainly of this period or earlier. The tower has part of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft built into an exterior angle, and more pieces are inside the church. Also in the tower is a small round-headed W window, splayed towards the exterior. Unfortunately it is covered with render and the stonework cannot be seen, although it has been examined in the past (Taylor and Taylor). It has no buttresses and has been considerably heightened, with a late-medieval bell-storey and a battlement. The core of this too is Anglo-Saxon. The rest of the church is faced with coursed stones. There was a restoration c.1860 described as 'very drastic' (Taylor and Taylor, 96). Features here described are the 12thc. doorway reset in the N aisle and the chancel arch.
46. All Saints, Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Saints' is a small two-cell aisleless church with a double bell-cote in the W gable. The nave has a 12thc. S doorway, much restored, and there is a small plain 12thc. window in the N wall of the chancel. The chancel arch responds and capitals are early 12thc., but the arch has been replaced with a pointed head. The interior, including the sculpture, is coated with a thick layer of whitewash. The church was restored in 1861, and the chancel E wall, the nave N wall and the chancel arch completely rebuilt.
47. St Michael and All Angels, Sutton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Michael's has an early 12thc. nave with a 13thc. bell-cote on the W gable. A S aisle with a two-bay arcade was added at the end of the 12thc., and the nave was heightened and a clerestorey added in the 15thc. The chancel arch is a fine piece by the Castor workshop. To the S of the chancel is a large 13thc. chapel converted to house the organ, and vestry. Construction is of coursed irregular blocks of Barnack limestone. The chancel and S aisle were restored in 1865-68. In addition to the chancel arch the church has a set of 12thc. corbels set high in the S wall of the nave, a small doorway reset in the S aisle wall, and inside a recumbent lion, perhaps from an elaborate doorway.
48. St Mary, Tansor, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Mary's has an aisled nave with a clerestorey. The nave is more or less rectangular in plan, but the arcades to N and S are differently treated. On the S are five uneven bays; the two western bays round-headed and the remainder pointed. The N arcade piers are more regularly spaced, i.e they are entirely out of step with those on the S. In the N there are three round-headed bays at the W end, then two full-sized pointed bays and a short pointed bay, leading to a vestry and partly blocked with a later doorway inserted. These different arrangements bring the two arcades to roughly the same point, and here the aisleless chancel starts, although there is no masonry chancel arch. The liturgical arrangements have been altered at some time, and a chancel step built right across the nave at S pier 1, which is part-way along the first full-sized bay on the north. This bay now houses the organ, and the liturgical changes have brought it into the chancel. The chancel is short and square-ended, substantially 13thc., although on its E wall are the remains of an earlier round-headed window. The W tower arch is 12thc., but a pointed arch has been inserted to reduce its size. The tower itself has a tall lower storey of rubble with plain 12thc. windows, and to which a 13thc. storey has been added. There are N and S nave doorways, both under 19thc. porches. Romanesque work is found in the nave arcades, the tower arch, the N nave doorway and a piscina set in the S nave aisle. The church was restored by Ewan Christian in 1885-87 (N and S porches, N aisle wall), and by H. F. Traylen and F. J. Lenton in 1933-35 (tower).
49. St Mary, Tichmarsh, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
From the outside St Mary's has all the appearance of a classic Perpendicular church: faced in ashlar with a W tower with mullioned and transomed windows, quatrefoil friezes and crocketed finials; a clerestoreyed nave with great four-centred windows to aisle and main vessel; similar fenestration to the chancel, and battlements throughout. Thomas Gryndall bequeathed money towards the building of the tower in 1474. Within, however, the nave arcades are seen to be 13thc. and the chancel has a N chapel of similar date with a 19thc. vestry leading off it. The chancel S doorway is an unobtrusive 13thc. opening, quite plain on the outside, but remodelled within to accommodate an arch of reused chevron voussoirs. This is the only Romanesque feature of the church.
50. St Nicholas, Twywell, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Nicholas' was an early 12thc. cruciform church without aisles. The N transept has been removed, but its arch is visible inside and out. The S transept was overbuilt by a S aisle, but the arch remains as bay 1 of the S arcade, including its E respond and capital. The remainder of the S arcade is 13thc. A 14thc. clerestorey was added on both sides of the nave. The N nave doorway remains from the early 12thc. campaign; the more elaborate reset S doorway could be slightly later. Plain 12thc. windows survive in the chancel N wall, the nave N wall, the W tower W wall, and reset in the S aisle W wall. The chancel can thus be dated to the 12thc. too, although its S windows indicate a remodelling c.1300. It has a S chapel now housing the organ and vestry. Finally the 12thc. W tower is of three storeys with much-altered bell-openings and a corbel table. A parapet with quatrefoil frieze and battlements was added in the 15-16thc. there was a spire which collapsed in 1699.
51. St Michael, Upton, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Michael's stands in the grounds of Quinton House school. It has a simple nave, chancel and W tower. The chancel is very slightly wider than the nave and there is no chancel arch, so that the interior forms a single hall-like space with unrendered stone walls, the side walls pierced by an unusually large number of windows of all periods from the 12thc. to the 15thc. There is a 12thc. window in the S nave wall, another in the N nave wall and a third in the N chancel wall. The church has plain 12thc. doorways to N and S of the nave and to the S of the chancel. The S nave doorway is under a porch dated 1594. The slender tower is built within the nave and has a polygonal W stair turret. The pointed, chamfered lancets in the lower storey suggest that the tower was originally 13thc., but its bell-openings and embattled parapet are 15thc. The plain doorways are described below, along with a chevron voussoir reset high in the tower S wall.
52. St Mary the Virgin, Weekley, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (benefice of Geddington with Weekley)
Weekley is a small village in the N of the county, just outside the conurbation of Kettering on the NE, and within the ancient forest of Rockingham. It stands on the W bank of the river Ise, overlooking its valley. The church is just outside the village on the N side, and there is a moated site at the SE edge of the village. St Mary's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with three-bay Perpendicular arcades; the aisles extending eastwards to form chapels alongside the chancel. The S doorway is of c.1200 and protected by a 19thc. porch. The chancel has one 13thc. lancet, but the chancel arch and the E end were rebuilt by Blomfield in 1873. The S chapel contains the organ now, but the north houses the grand tomb of Sir Edward Montagu (d.1601) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1618) with effigies of both under a canopy, as well as other Montague memorials. In the E wall of this chapel a 12thc. carved stone has been set. At the W end, the tower is 14thc., with a short spire behind the battlement.
53. All Hallows, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
All Hallows is a large church of ironstone and grey ashlar with an aisled and clerestoreyed nave, a 14thc. chancel with Perpendicular N and S chapels (the N now housing the organ), and a W tower with a broach spire. The c.1300 nave arcades are of four bays and there is a small S chapel off the east bay of the S aisle. Both nave doorways are under 14tc. two-storey porches. The N chancel chapel has a three-bay arcade towards the chancel, and there is a vestry to the E of it. The S chancel chapel is longer with a four-bay arcade, and an altar at its E end. The tower is of c.1250-1300 with a W doorway of that time. Its upper section and spire are of grey ashlar; the lower section banded with ironstone.
54. St John the Baptist, Werrington, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
Nave and aisles with three-bay, 13thc. arcades and no clerestorey. There is no W tower, but a double bell-cote between nave and chancel. The chancel is aisleless with a 13thc. N chapel, now in use as a vestry. The nave has N and S doorways, the N giving access to a 2001 lavatory block at the W end of the N aisle; the S a reset 12thc. doorway under a medieval porch bearing the dates 1668 and 1892, which refer to restorations. There was a collapse at the NW corner of the nave, and this area, including the W bay of the N arcade, is a copy of the original dating from 1680 (date stone in W wall). A further restoration of the chancel was carried out in 1901-02. Construction is of thickly-mortared rough ashlar blocks with bands of more regular ashlar. Romanesque features described here are the chancel arch, S doorway and bell-cote.
55. St Peter, Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church
St Peter's has a nave with a three bay N aisle and no clerestorey. The N arcade is 19thc., but the N doorway, reset under a porch, is 12thc. The chancel has stepped 13thc. lancets, but also a 12thc. priest's doorway. On the N is a chapel and a vestry by A.A.J.Marshman of 1969-71, much admired by Pevsner. The unbuttressed W tower is 12thc. in its lower parts, with a plain, blocked W doorway in very crude masonry. It rises four storeys, and the topmost has 13thc. bell-openings and a 13thc. corbel table. Above this is a low pyramid roof. The tower arch is plain and late 12thc. The 12-13thc. work is of stone rubble, the vestry of coursed stone blocks, everything else of coursed stone alternating with rubble. Features recorded here are the W tower doorway, N nave doorway and S chancel doorway.
56. All Saints, Wilbarston, Northamptonshire, England

Parish church (benefice of Stoke Albany with Wilbarston and Ashley with Weston-by-Welland and Sutton Bassett)
Wilbarston is in the NW of the county, within the ancient forest of Rockingham, and 2 miles from the river Welland that forms the border with Leicestershire. The village stands on a hill, separated from its neighbour, Stoke Albany, only by a stream. The Jurassic Way; a long-distance walkway along the limestone ridge between Stamford and Banbury, passes through the village, and the church is on the N edge of the village. All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with arcades of three bays. The N arcade is carried on cylindrical piers with 12thc. half-column responds at the E and W ends, but the pier capitals are 13thc. moulded work, and the arches must date from c.1300. The S arcade is also much modified. Bay 1, perhaps a transept arch originally, is round-headed and substantially 12thc., while the arches of bays 2 and 3 are 13thc. and pointed. All the capitals are moulded, and the piers cylindrical, except that shafts have been added on the E side of pier 1 to match the arch profile (see below). The S nave doorway is 13thc., under a 19thc. porch, and the N doorway is blocked. The chancel contains a 12thc. priest's doorway. The W tower is late 13thc., short and unbuttressed with a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The church is built of yellow stone throughout. The nave was restored in 1884. Romanesque sculpture is found in the two nave arcades and the S chancel doorway.
57. St Mary, Woodnewton, Northamptonshire, England

Chapel
St Mary's is a cruciform church to which a three-bay south nave aisle, with an arch to the transept, was added in the early 13thc. The nave has a 15thc.-16thc. clerestorey on the S wall only. The N transept now houses the organ, and its arch is 13thc. and pointed, but the transept itself is a modern rebuild. The S transept arch is late 12thc. and round-headed. The chancel belongs to the early 13thc. too, but its S doorway is, stylistically at least, late 12thc., and is included here. The W tower was rebuilt in the 16thc., and its arch is of reused material. The south nave doorway is 13thc., under a porch bearing a date stone of 1662. There is no N doorway. Construction is of stone rubble, much disturbed. Features described here are the S transept arch and the S chancel doorway.