IRTHLINGBOROUGH, a parish comprising the
consolidated parishes of All Saints and St. Peter, in the
hundred of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles
(N.W.) from Higham-Ferrers, containing 1072 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £5. 6. 8., jointly endowed with £800
private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty. Earl Fitzwilliam
was patron in 1803. The church, dedicated
to St. Peter, has a steeple in the early style of English
architecture, surmounted by a lofty octagonal lantern of
later date; in the reign of Richard II. it was made collegiate,
and endowed by John Pyel, lord mayor of London,
for a dean and five secular canons, or prebendaries,
besides four clerks, and at the dissolution it possessed a
revenue of £64. 12. 10.: there are some remains of the
collegiate buildings. The church of All Saints has been
demolished. There are places of worship for Baptists
and Wesleyan Methodists. In the middle of the village
stands a stone cross, the shaft of which, raised upon
steps, is thirteen feet high, and is the standard for adjusting
the provincial pole> by which the portions of th
adjacent meadows are measured.