COURTEENHALL, a parish in the hundred of WYMERSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (S.) from Northampton, containing. 144 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £12. 10. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A free school was founded and endowed, in the year 1670, by Sir Samuel Jones, for boys who must reside within four miles of the village of Courteenhall; the founder bequeathed £ 500 for the purpose of building the schoolhouse, and a rent-charge of £80 for a master, and £20 for an usher, besides a bequest of £500 for repairing the church.