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St. Giles Terrace, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 2BN

St Giles Terrace, Northampton looking South from Abington St.

Off York Road.

St Giles Terrace.

104 Abington Street, Northampton.

This sculpture, erected in December 2005, is dedicated to Francis Crick who was born in Weston Favell, Northampton and is viewed as one of the greatest British scientists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 and the Order of Merit in 1991.

Grade I listed. Listing number 1052403. C12 crossing tower, upper stages rebuilt 1616, top renewed 1914. Reset and restored C12 west doorway. Chancel probably C12, later widened, with remains of C13 lancet windows. C14 south chapel; north chapel C14 with windows of 1512. C14 north and south aisles, C15 nave with C17 clerestory. Extra north aisle and west end rebuilding with porches, by E F Law 1853-5. Chancel restored 1876. Cl5 Paynell-Gobion alabaster table tomb; good C17 and C18 wall monuments. Early C17 pulpit. Stained glass to East window, 1878, by Clayton and Bell.

This sculpture, erected in December 2005, is dedicated to Francis Crick who was born in Weston Favell, Northampton and is viewed as one of the greatest British scientists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 and the Order of Merit in 1991.

Despite its size and location close to the town centre, this is not in fact the 'town' church of Northampton, which is All Hallows, right in the traditional centre. The Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland website http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/index.html contains the following general description of the church, which dates from the 12 century but has had several significant periods of rebuilding. "The church of St Giles is a large cruciform building with a crossing tower. The tower is 12thc. in its lower parts and has crossing arches to E and W only. To the N and S are plain walls now; the arches were blocked after the upper part of the tower collapsed in 1613. Rebuilding was from 1616, and included the E bays of the N nave arcade and the clerestorey as well as the tower. The aisled and clerestoreyed nave has arcades of five bays, the three E bays originally 14thc. (and still 14thc. on the S), the two western ones added in 1853-55, when the 12thc. W doorway was reset. The nave aisles extend E alongside the tower, replacing the 12thc. transepts. On the N side of the nave an extra aisle, a bay shorter than the main aisles, was added in the 19thc. The present chapel contains 13thc. lancets in the N and S walls, and is offset slightly to the N from the line of the nave and crossing. It has N and S chapels, both 14thc. The 1853-55 work is by E. F. Law, following a report of 1840 by G. G. Scott. The N transept now contains lavatories and a crèche. Romanesque work is found in the two arches of the crossing and the reset W doorway. The crossing arches were unblocked in 1853-55 and rebuilt on the basis of the remains of the E arch, but the present author has identified no 12thc. work in either arch. They are described below on the assumption that they are a fair copy of at least part of what was there before."