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St. Lawrence's Church, Towcester

St.Lawrence Church 

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 History of the church
 Tour
 Archdeacon Sponne
 The clergy
 The pew holders
 The benefactors
 The donors
 The monuments
 The inscriptions
 The brasses
 The bells
 Gravestone Inscriptions

Sources of information

This section on St. Lawrence's Church was researched by Liz Davies. The web editor was David Wilcock. Information was gratefully received from Revd. James Atwell, Fr. Jerome Betram, Roger Drage, Bryan Egan, Alan Pretty, Margaret Webb and Paul & Charmian Woodfield.


References on the history of St. Lawrence's Church
  1. "TOWCESTER - The Story of an English country town" The Towcester and District Local History Society, 1995. ISBN 0-9524-6191-9. Chapter on St. Lawrence Church (pages 75-78) by Revd. James Atwell.
  2. "The Buildings of England - Northamptonshire", Nikolas Pevsner (Second edition by Bridget Cherry 1973). Reprinted 1995 Penguin books ISBN 0-1407-1022-1.
  3. "Exploring Parish Churches in Northamptonshire". Tony Noble. Jema Publications, Published 1999 ISBN 1-8714-6893-0.
  4. The Northampton County Magazine.
  5. Various items eg gifts to the church from NRO ref: TC793.
  6. "The History and Antiquities of the County of Northamptonshire" compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned antiquary John Bridges Esq. By the Rev. Peter Whalley. Volume I Oxford MDCCXCI (Pages 275,278,300).
  7. "The History and Antiquities of the County of Northamptonshire" by George Baker VOL III London. Published by J.B.Nicholas & Son Parliament Street. 1836 (page 3 12-338).
  8. List of work undertaken on St Lawrence by Mr Geoffrey Forsyth Lawson.
  9. "Northamptonshire" from "The King's England" by Arthur Mee. First published 1945.
  10. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Edited by H. A. Doubleday, A History of the County of Northampton. Volume I Page 411. Westminster . Archibald Constable and company Ltd.
  11. Kelly's Directory 1924 and 1940.
  12. County of Northampton , Archaeological Sites. Volume Four. South west. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 97 England. Published London. Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1982.
  13. Information from Fr. Jerome Bertram (FSA) on Archbishop Sponne, and on the stained glass windows.
  14. Advice from Roger Drage on historic research.
  15. Bryan Egan for taking most of the interior photographs.
  16. Margaret Webb for the pew holders details and copies of other sources.
  17. Paul and Charmian Woodfield
  18. "Towcester Local History Society Fact Sheet - Towcester Parish Records" Brian Giggins, June 1988, Notes written on the rear pages of the Burials Register 1842-1872, probably by John A.Greaves, Vicar of St. Lawrence. NRO 329 p15.

References on St. Lawrence's Church building and its contents
  1. "Parish Church of St.Lawrence, Towcester, Notes for the use of visitors". Price 2d. Faith Press Ltd. Single folder foolscap(?) sheet, 4 pages. Author and date unknown.
  2. "The History and Antiquities of the County of Northamptonshire" by George Baker VOL III London. Published by J.B.Nicholas & Son Parliament Street. 1836 (page 3 12-338).
  3. "History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire". Page 560. Second Edition by Frances Whellan & Co. London .Published by Whittaker and Co. Ave Maria Lane, London. 1874.
  4. "St Lawrence Church Towcester." from "The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland" (CRSBI). Ron Baxter. Web site www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/be/abiab/index.htm (28 June 2005).
  5. "Stained Glass Monograms" compiled by Joyce Little. Edited by Angela Goldicke and Margaret Washbourn 2002.
  6. "The Catholic Encyclopedia" Online Edition (www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html). Copyright 2003 by K. Knight.
  7. Hicks Charity.
  8. "Monumental inscriptions" W.Scott ZA 8011 The Record Office.
  9. Stained glass windows. There is information about the stained glass windows at St. Lawrence's, Towcester on the CVMA website (www.cvma.ac.uk March 2007) in the archive section, and in the book "The Medieval Stained Glass of Northamptonshire" bt Richard Marks (400pp OUP/British Academy 1998 ISBN 0-19-726177-9.
  10. Stained glass window numbering system. The CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi) numbering system uses lower case letters for the light (left to right) and numbers for the panel within the light (bottom to top) eg 1a. Capital letters are used for the tracery (left to right) eg A1.
  11. "Towcester Parish Church" by James Atwell, Vicar, 1984. Bluebell Printing Ltd., Cambridge, CB1 4DJ. 12 pages.
  12. The history of the bells from the web site of the bell manufacturer, Taylors Eayre and Smith Ltd. www.taylorbells.co.uk/pages/news/towers/towcester.html
  13. The history of the bells that came from Todmorden to Towcester from the web site of the history of Christ Church, Todmorden. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/Christchurch.htm

References on the Clergy of St. Lawrence's Church
  1. "The History and Antiquities of the County of Northamptonshire" by George Baker VOL III London. Published by J.B.Nicholas & Son Parliament Street. 1836 (page 312-338).
  2. "TOWCESTER - The Story of an English country town" The Towcester and District Local History Society, 1995. ISBN 0-9524-6191-9. Chapter on Archdeacon William Sponne (pages 72-74) by Alan Pretty.
  3. A list compiled by Eric Griffiths in 1965.
  4. "The History and Antiquities of the County of Northamptonshire" compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned antiquary John Bridges Esq. By the Rev. Peter Whalley. Volume I Oxford MDCCXCI (Pages 275,278,300).
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