SNN111801 - All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Northamptonshire: The Development of the Fabric c 1100 to 1865

Following the publication of a detailed monograph on the Anglo-Saxon phases of the church, this is an account of its development from the late 11th century until the eve of the Victorian restoration in 1865–66. The Romanesque contribution to the fabric is mainly represented by the late 12th-century south doorway, but a series of reset corbels implies a complete re-roofing; the pitch of the roof was reduced in the late middle ages. Major changes in the late 13th and 14th centuries included the growth by stages of the south-east chapel, the replacement of the Anglo-Saxon apse by a square-ended chancel, and the addition of a bell stage and spire to the west tower. New data from surveys by the Brixworth Archaeological Research Committee have made it possible to propose a detailed sequencing for the south-east chapel, while alternative interpretations of a timber framework in the bell stage of the west tower, not previously recorded, can be suggested.