ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



FAXTON 



his wife, and in the recess of the east window a brass 

 plate in memory of Edward Barnwell (d. 1602), 'some- 

 tyme Lord of >■* manners of Newarks mannor and 

 Pultons mannor here in Cranesley', and his two wives 

 Eleanor Brooke and Ann Spencer: his arms are on a 

 separate plate. A floor-slab dose by bears the figure of a 

 skeleton and border inscription to Edward Barnwell 

 (d. 1557) and Helen his wife. 



There is a little painted glass in the south-east 

 window of the aisle: (i) arms of Ros;' (ii) four cranes 

 separately leaded, no doubt from a shield of the arms 

 of De Cransley; (iii) a piece of yellow glass with three 

 fishes in pale. 



There is a mutilated stone coffin in the south aisle, 

 and also a late- 17th-century parish chest with three 

 locks. At the east end of the south aisle is an 18th- 

 century communion table with turned legs. 



There is a ring of six bells by Matthew and Henry 

 Bagley of Chacomb, 1683.^ 



The plate consists of a silver cup and cover paten of 

 1 61 8, a flagon by John Fawdrey 1707, a bread-holder 

 by Nat Gullion 1723, a chalice and paten of 1884, and 

 a spoon of 1875.' 



The registers before 1 81 2 are as follows: (i) all 

 entries 1561-1714, but irregular after l683;'» (ii) 

 baptisms 1715-96, marriages 1715-64, burials 171 5- 

 97; (iii) marriages 1759-1800; (iv) baptisms and 

 burials 1797-1812; (v) marriages 1801-12. 



The church was valued at ;^8 in 

 ADFOfTSON 1 29 1. 5 The Cransleys and afterwards 

 the Wakes held theadvowson with their 

 manor (q.v.) until the appropriation of the advowson 

 with this manor to St. Mary's College, Leicester, 

 in 1381.* The rectory in 1535 was returned as worth 

 /^l8, the vicarage as £8 yearly.' After the Dissolution 

 the rectory and advowson were annexed to the Duchy 

 of Lancaster, and on 26 May 1579 granted to Edward 



Dalison for 21 years.' On 12 August 1591 they were 



granted by the Queen to Edward Downing and Roger 

 Rante,' and had been acquired by Sir Thomas Cecil 

 before 1595, being conveyed with Dalison 's manor by 

 the Cecils to Thomas Pagett, John Brett, and John 

 Dyison.'" Since that date the advowson has continued 

 to be held with the manor. 



A petition was presented in 1642 for settlement of 

 a competent allowance on the vicarage, which the 

 inhabitants represented had only a yearly stipend of 

 £S from the lords of the manor; and it was stated that 

 the executors having neglected to repair the vicarage 

 house, though a legacy for the purpose had been left 

 by Sir Henry Robinson about four years before, and 

 certain of the holders of the manor, which was held in 

 five parts, refusing to contribute their shares for the 

 allowance of the vicarage, the inhabitants had been left 

 without a vicar." 



Mr. Hollcd in 1650 gave ^10, the 

 CHARITIES interest to be distributed monthly in 

 2tl. loaves. 



John Warner in 1 729 gave a rent-charge of 10/. to be 

 distributed in bread. 



In respect of these two charities a rent-charge of 

 j^i OS. T.d. is paid out of two cottages on the Cransley 

 Estate belonging to Major Thurburn. The charge is 

 distributed monthly in zd. loaves to 1 1 poor widows or 

 widowers for 1 1 months in the year. 



The school was founded in 1824 by the Rev. G. 

 Anderson, the vicar, who endowed it with a rent-charge 

 of ^^26 yearly. The site for new buildings was given in 

 1872 by the lord of the manor, W. Somerset Rose, esq., 

 and these were erected by contributions from himself 

 and others, the rent-charge being transferred to the new 

 school and the old school-house being retained as a 

 residence for the schoolmistress. The new buildings 

 were enlarged in 1905 for 67 children. 



FAXTON 



Fextone, Foiton (li cent.); Fauxston (xiv cent.). 



Faxton lies to the east of Lamport and of the road 

 from Northampton to Market Harborough, its eastern 

 portion being formed by Mawsley hamlet. It lies high 

 for a Northamptonshire parish, much of the ground 

 being about 400 ft. The NicoUs family at one time lived 

 here in what Bridges describes as 'an antient manor- 

 house'. In his day there was under a stone dial over 

 the gate this inscription: 



Anno primo (MDCXXV) Caroli primi 



Ne dispar quid displiceat 

 Nam trium Consanguineorum tribus ac regnantibus 



Hoc exiguum opus est. 



and on the other side of the gate fronting the house: 



Tres successivi possessores 

 Anna Augustinus et Franciscus 

 Tribus Principibus invicem succcdentibus 

 Elizabetha Jacobo & Carole. 



Perhaps the Hall Ponds to the north of the church 



indicate the spot near which this stood. Soldiers of 

 Charles I were quartered at Faxton the night before the 

 battle of Naseby.'^ 



The Almshouses at a little distance north-east of the 

 church were erected by the last Nicolls heiresses. 

 Faxton Lodge lies to the south of the parish, where there 

 are also brickworks. 



To the north-west is Short Wood, and at the extreme 

 north is Stonegrove Spinney. A very winding brook 

 forms the eastern boundary of the parish. 



The parish contains 1,851 acres, principally pasture 

 land. There is no village, and the population, which 

 in 1801 was 54, in 1921 was only 37. Since 1935 

 Faxton has been included in Lamport parish. 



FAXTON Manor was in Saxon times 

 MANOR royal demesne, and was entered among the 

 King's lands in Mawsley Hundred in the 

 Domesday Survey. There were 2 hides there, and 

 Wold and Walgrave (2 hides and 3i virgates of land) 

 belonged to this manor. '^ In the 12th century the 



■ Argent 3 water-bougeCs sable and a 

 label of 5 points gules; a variant of Ros. 



' North, Ch. Belli of Sorlhanli. 236, 

 where the inscriptions are given. The 

 treble is repaired with bands which cover 

 part of the inscription. The bells were 

 rchung by Taylor in 1870. 



1 Mtikiiim,Ci. Plate of NortAaitu.i^. 



* 'There was no regular register kept in 

 this parish from 1683 to this present year 

 17 1 5, which neglect I endeavoured to 

 make emends for by writing in the old 

 register all the christenings, marriages & 

 burials that I could prevail with my 

 parishioners to send me : Ch. Manning, 

 vicar' : note in Register. 



» Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 39. 



' Anct. D., C. 3372. 



' yahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 1 70. 



• Pat. R. 33 Eliz. pt. 13. • Ibid. 



'" Feet of F. Northants. East. 37 Elii. 

 " lint. MSS. Com. Ref>. v, 66. 

 " Bridges, ///«. of Horikants. ii, 92. 

 '» y.C.H. Northamti. i, 306. 



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