Monument record 1160/217/1 - St Peter's Street

St Peter's Street was a broadly east-west aligned street south of St Peter's Church until redevelopment of the area in the 1970s. Freeschool Street lay at its east end aand at the west it joined Green Street/Elephant Lane. Archaeological excavation in the 1970s determined that it probably originated in the late 11th century.

{1}St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church;

{4}St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church; connects Green Street with Freeschool Lane;St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church;

{5}St Peter's Street; runs behind St Peter's Church; connects Elephant Street to Freeschool Street;

{2}St Peter's Street not named on map; runs directly behind St Peter's Church; runs between Bakewell Street & Freeschool Lane;

{6}15cm road make-up observed above grey loam with occasional charcoal flecks; finds of few oyster shells & bottle glass & post medieval pottery not retained;

{7}Metalling along line of present St Peter's Street; compact mass of ironstone fragments; finds include furnace bottom or forging slag; lead sheet offcut; worked bone spindle whorl & highly polished antler tool probably once spindle & bone skate & other worked bone included three fragments of antler working waste; road was re-metalled at time of rebuilding of street circa 1410-20;

<1> Speed J., 1610, Map of Northamptonshire, (checked) (Map). SNN559.

<2> Noble; Butlin, 1746, Town Map, (checked) (Map). SNN430.

<3> Roper; Cole, 1807, Map of The Town of Northampton, (checked) (Map). SNN621.

<4> Wood; Law, 1847, Town Map of Northampton, (checked) (Map). SNN752.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Mapping Series (45.09), (unchecked) (Map). SNN106108.

<6> KIDD, 1994, SMR REPORT FORM, (unchecked) (Report). SNN49433.

<7> Williams J.H., 1979, St Peter's Street, Northampton: Excavations 1973-1976, p.76 (checked) (Report). SNN342.

Record last edited

Aug 20 2025 3:41PM