Monument record 2285 - Aldwincle

Unusually for the county, the township had two parishes and each manor had its own church. The two settlements originally seem to have merged in the medieval period

{1} Unusually for Northamptonshire, Alwinkle single township comprised two separate parishes, each of the two manors having its own church. In 1086 there were two holdings.
Analysis of the settlement is difficult because there is no early map and those of 1794 and 1816 are incomplete. The pre-enclosure road pattern is recorded on Eyre's map. At the centre of All Saint's lay the church and rectory, and manor-house. The house is depicted immediately east of the churchyard in 1816, though by then realigned askew to the earthwork enclosure surrounding it. It was demolished in c 1826. Cropmark evidence west of All Saint's church is associated with medieval pottery and stone and indicates that All Saints' settlement originally merged with St Peters'. All Saints' appears to have had a more rectilinear plan-form than today. A priest's dwelling and school house called the chantry house was established in All Saints' in the late 15th century. It was destroyed after the Dissolution and stood in Spinkes' Yard where human remains had been dug up before 1720. St Peters' manor house is lost but probably stood in Hall Close, while the parsonage was in decay by 1570. Probable expansion over adjacent furlongs in the northern part of the village. Central part of the village is more complex but the irregular shape of the tenement groups and several road widenings may be suggestive of infill on a green.

{4} Collection of photographs of buildings in the village.

<1> Foard, G.; Hall, D. & Partida, T., 2009, Rockingham Forest: An atlas of the medieval and early-modern landscape (Book). SNN106598.

<2> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p. 208, 212 (Book). SNN77326.

<3> Page W. (ed), 1930, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p. 164, 168 (Series). SNN100370.

<4> Various, Various, Photographs of buildings in Aldwincle (Photographs). SNN111147.

Record last edited

Jun 1 2018 11:06AM