All Saints, Northampton
All Saints, Northampton
All Saints is a Grade I parish church on George Row in the centre of Northampton, in the Diocese of Peterborough. The present church was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1675 and consecrated in 1680.
- Location
- Northampton, Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Northamptonshire
- City / town
- Northampton
- Address
- George Row, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DF
- Postcode
- NN1 1DF
- Built
- 1676–80; west portico 1701; medieval tower and C14 crypt survive
- Consecrated
- 1680
- Architect
- Henry Bell of King's Lynn and Edward Edwards (surveyors); listing also names Henry Jones of Northampton
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Peterborough
- Parish
- Northampton All Saints with St Katherine
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Baroque Classical
- Grid reference
- SP 754 604
- Opening hours
- Open all day 9am to 6pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records medieval fabric in the western tower, which survived the fire, together with a fourteenth-century crypt. The rebuilt church of 1680 is attributed in the list description to Henry Jones of Northampton; Northamptonshire HER and later accounts associate the work with Henry Bell of King's Lynn and Edward Edwards, appointed as surveyors after Charles II granted timber and a share of the town's rebuilding fund. The plan is a square nave with a dome and lantern over a Greek-cross of segmental vaults on four Ionic columns, with chancel and chapels to the east.
A wide eight-column portico was finished in 1701; John Hunt's statue of Charles II was placed on it in 1712. The listing notes ornate plaster ceilings and a Corporation Pew dated 1680. The top of the medieval tower was refaced in 1928. Wikipedia records later restorations and the church's continuing civic ceremonies on Oak Apple Day.