BRIXWORTH, a parish in the hundred of ORLINGBURY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N.) from
Northampton, containing 927 inhabitants. The living is
"a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £14.15.10., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Chancellor in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a curious
and interesting edifice, exhibiting much of the original
Norman structure, varied by alterations of a more recent
date, in. the early, decorated, and later styles of English
architecture: it is built with red unhewn rag-stone, in
small sizes, and the arches are turned, and most of them
covered, with courses of bricks similar to the Roman
bricks, or tiles, that have been discovered in Roman
works in this country. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. A fair is held annually on the
Monday next after Ascension-day. Thomas Roe, in
1665, gave by deed a rent-charge of £10, for teaching
ten poor children of this parish, and ten of the parish
of Scaldwell.