A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



bell-gable holding a small modern bell, and replacing 

 a boarded wooden turret. 



There are no ancient fittings in the church, and 

 the font is plain and modern. 



The plate consists of a silver cup and paten of 

 1817, inscribed 'Long Thorpe Chapel, 1817,' and a 

 plated bread-holder. The parish registers date only 

 from 1850. 



OXNEV is situated about a mile south of the 

 village of Eye, just within the civil parish of Peter- 

 borough Without. It is first mentioned in the survey 

 of the possessions of Peterborough Abbey of the time 

 of Henry I, as being the residence of a cowherd with 

 twenty-three beasts in his charge.' In the time of 

 Abbot Martin, 1 1 33-55, there was a chapel at Oxney,' 

 the chancel of which was enlarged or rebuilt by 

 Abbot Robert, 1214-22, who at the same time set 

 up a painting of the Blessed Virgin over the altar.' 

 William of Hotoft, 1246-9, obtained a grant of an 



eight days' fair at Oxncy.'andon his resignation of the 

 abbacy he retired thither.' Abbot Godfrey, 1299- 

 132 1, made a special provision for the food of the 

 brothers at Oxney from the manor of Eye.' During 

 his abbac)' the chancel of the chapel was enlarged, and 

 licence was given by Bishop Dalderby of Lincoln, 

 1300-19, for the dedication of a fixed altar, and he 

 also granted an indulgence to those visiting the chapel.' 

 The dedication was performed by Walter, bishop of 

 Armagh, in 131 5.* After the dissolution of the abbey 

 of Peterborough, the site of the ' cell ' ° of Oxney was 

 granted by Henry VIII to Roger Horton,'" and it was 

 sold about 1568 by Margaret Horton, widow, to 

 Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghlcy." The 

 site of the grange is now occupied by a farmhouse and 

 buildings, and still preserves remains of its former 

 importance in the shape of a stone-vaulted room of 

 14th-century date, now used as a kitchen, but exter- 

 nally nothing of the ancient appearance is to be seen. 



BAINTON 



Badington, Badinton (xii cent.), Badington, Bayn- enclosure award, dated 17 September, 1 799, is in the 



ton (xvi cent.). custody of the rector of Ufford. The village is small. 



The civil parish of Bainton, including Ashton, which lying for the most part on the north side of the road 





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Bainton Church and base of Cross. 



is ecclesiastically attached to Ufford, has an area of 

 1,739 acres, of which 602 are arable and 476J pasture. 

 It lies in the valley of the Wclland, and rises in no part 

 to 1 00 ft. above the ordnance datum. The soil is clay 

 on a substratum of Oxford clay and great oolite. Corn 

 (chiefly barley) and pulse form the principal crops. The 



from Stamford to Helpston. Its only street, bordered 

 with small stone built cottages, runs north and south 

 at right angles to the Stamford road, having Bainton 

 House, and its well-timbered grounds on the west, and 

 the church on the south-east. At the junction of the 

 street and the road is the base of an ancient cross, on 



* Chronicon, 165, 



3 Swapham, fol. l\^b, 



' Sparke, Serif/ores, loS. 



•• Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, p. ^44. 



* Sparke, Scripiores^ 128. " Ibid. 



[61. 



'Ibid. 155; Epis. Reg. Line. Dal- 

 derby Mem. ff. 24s, 278 d. 



* Cbron. Angliae Petroh. (Caxton Soc.), 

 160. 



^ So called in this and some subsequent 



460 



documents, but there is no evidence that 

 there was ever a cell in the ordinary 

 sense of the word at Oxney. 



1" L. and P. Hen. yill, xvi, 501. 



" C.il. of F. Northants, East. 10 Eliz. 



