BARTON (EARL'S), a parish in the hundred of
HAMFORDSHOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles
(S. W.) from Wellingborough, containing 976 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is
a curious edifice, the tower being ornamented with ribs,
or mouldings, like that at Barnack, in the Saxon, or
Norman, style of architecture: the Norman style, and
the early, decorated, and the later English styles, are
displayed in other parts of the building. There are
places of worship for Particular Baptists and Wesleyan
Methodists. The navigable river Nen, by which, the
Northampton canal communicates with the North sea,
passes through the parish.