FINEDON, otherwise THINGDON, a parish in.
the hundred of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 85
miles (N. E. by N.) from Wellingborough, containin
1159 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £10. 17. 1. Sir E. Dolben,
Bart, was patron in 1810. The church, dedicated to
St. Mary, is a large and handsome edifice, mostly in
the decorated style; the tower, battlements, and spire,
are fine specimens of later English architecture: the
font is a large cubical mass of stone, with the angles
sloped off, so as to make the plan of the upper face
octagonal. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.