POLEBROOK, a parish in the hundred of POLEBROOK,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (E. S. E.)
from Oundle, containing, with the hamlet of
339 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £29. 3. 65., and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church,
dedicated to All Saints, is partly Norman, but principally
in the early English style, with a beautiful tower
and spire at the western extremity of the south aisle:
the font has a cylindrical base, and an octagonal top
with trefoil panelling. There is a trifling endowment,
the bequest of William Tawyer, in 1721, for teaching
children.