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York Road, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 5QJ

Victorian houses line this road which is part of the circuit of main roads close around the town centre. The alignment from the map suggests that it may follow the line of the old medieval town boundary.

A public house on the corner of Alexandra Road and St. Edmund's Road. The sign outside indicates it is for sale.

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."

Victorian terraces in Northampton.

Seen from the St Michael's multi-storey car park. Most of these premises are now business premises rather than residential. It is interesting to note the varied treatment of the chimney stacks and the dormer windows.

Terraced houses now largely converted to business premises. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2544278.

Off York Road.

King Edwards VII's memorial, designed by Sir George Frampton at a cost of £1,200.

"The dominant element is the tall crossing tower. This is Norman, but its upper parts fell in 1613 and were rebuilt in 1616. The top was again renewed in 1914 ... The big E window has C19 tracery" (Nikolaus Pevsner).