STANWICK, a parish in the hundred of HIGHAMFERRERS,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N.N.E.)
from Higham-Ferrers, containing 424 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £ 12. 9. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, exhibits portions in
the early, decorated, and later, styles of English architecture
it has an octangular tower of the former
character, surmounted by an enriched spire, in the
decorated style There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. iMrs. Pacey, in. 1784, bequeathed a
rent-charge of £10 for teaching poor children, and £5
yearly for clothing five of them.. Richard Cumberland,
the dramatist, was born here, in 1732.