Building record 3884/0/133 - No.24 (Vicarage)

Vicarage. Reputed c.1843 with later Cl9 additions. Rendered brick and stone with ashlar dressings. The medieval vicarage may have also been situated here.

{1} Vicarage. Reputed c.1843 with later Cl9 additions. Rendered brick and stone with ashlar dressings. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys, 3-window range. Central 4-panel door has projecting stone porch with flanking stone mullion bay windows, all with plain parapet. First and second floor casement windows with glazing bars have dripstones above. Castellated parapet and rendered stacks at ends. Rear and side elevations have some sash windows with glazing bars. Interior; staircase has stick balustrade. Some 6-panelled doors.

{4} Undated photo;

{5, 6} The Abbots of Crowland held the advowson of the church from the 10th century. The rectory was appropriated in the medieval period and a vicarage instituted. The tenement called the vicarage in the court roll of 1545-6 is not located. The vicarage now lies immediately north east of the church, and although it could represent the site of the medieval vicarage, in the 1771 survey it is described merely as a freehold property. However Cole states that the vicarage House built in 1813, that which survives today, was built 'on the site of an ancient edifice, said to have been an antique thatched building, with dismal low rooms and cells', implying but not confirming that it too had been the vicarage.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9+11/92 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Looker J., 2005, All Hallows Vicarage, 24 Church Street, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Report). SNN105316.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Wellingborough (Photographs). SNN115387.

<5> Foard G, 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Wellingborough (Medieval + Post Medieval), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100339.

<6> Cole J., 1837, The History and Antiquities of Wellingborough, (unchecked) (Book). SNN43829.

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Apr 25 2025 9:16AM