Prefabricated galvanised steel buildings were a popular solution for rapidly expanding churches in the late 19th and early 20th-century. The St Michael’s Road area of Northampton has two examples of repurposing and relocation, demonstrating how tin tabernacles lend themselves as recycled churches.
“Are you church or chapel?”
It sounds like a small question today. But well into the twentieth century in England, it revealed a great deal about a person — their beliefs, their community, even their social identity.
Before Victorian cemeteries became peaceful parks, England’s churchyards were overcrowded, unsanitary — and battlegrounds of religious politics. Discover how a crisis in death reshaped the landscape of mourning.
An illustrated and annotated transcript of the previously unpublished diary of John Newton for 1767.
King George V and Queen Mary visited Northampton on 23 September 1913. There was extensive provision of temporary stands for children for this memorable event.
The rediscovery of a ‘lost’ church dedicated St Botolph at Sulby, Northamptonshire.
John Watkin was responsible for the construction of many of the finest Victorian building projects in Northampton.
Jonathan Scott was a significant figure in the growth of Evangelical Christianity in the Midlands but came from a surprising background. A single-chapter biography of… Read More »Captain Jonathan Scott at Northampton
Matthew Bloxham in his “The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture” (1845) made a comparison between St Peter’s, Northampton with St Andrew, Steyning.
There is less published biographical information about Ann and no portrait has been discovered. It would be a mistake though to assume that Ann was… Read More »Ann Elizabeth Baker and the Bakers of Hazelrigg House