Braunston or Brandestone, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Braunston or Brandestone, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands at the junction of the Oxford and the Grand Junction canals, 3½ miles NW of Daventry, and has a station on the line from Daventry to Leamington, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugby. Little Braunston hamlet stands half a mile to the E. The parish comprises 3261 acres; population, 983. The Grand Junction Canal here passes through a tunnel 1¼ mile long. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £600. Patron, Jesus' College, Oxford. The church, rebuilt in 1847, is a building of sandstone in the Geometrical Early English style. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Bragborough Hall is a chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Braunston All Saints | |
| Hundred | Fawsley | |
| Poor Law union | Daventry |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1538.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints (rebuilt in 1847 at a cost of £6,000) is an edifice of pink sandstone from quarries near Kenilworth, in the Geometrical Early English style, consisting of chancel with chapel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with crocketed spire and pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. A. B. Clough B.D. for 32 years rector here, d. 1870; and there are others to Jemima Florence (1857), and Frances Katherine (1863), daughters of the above; to Robert Marriott, Susannah his wife, their children and grandchildren, to the mother and three sisters of George Allen and Wm. Brooks Buttlin esqrs. to Richard Howson Lamb esq. of Bragborough Hall, and Frances his wife, to Nathaniel Jenkins, d. Feb. 1st, 1866, and Harriet his wife, d. July 8th, 1883, to Capt. and Mrs. Garratt, and one to William Bayliss, d. 1893: in the chapel is a monument with the recumbent effigy of a knight in chain mail with crossed legs and bearing a shield and sword, said to represent one of the Lords de Ros: the pulpit is of Devonshire marble and alabaster and the font of rich Devonshire and Derbyshire marbles: on either side of the east window are paintings on tiles of SS. Peter and Paul: the church was re-seated in 1880, towards which Capt. Garratt contributed £500; and the chancel was restored in 1874 under the superintendence of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, of London: there are 450 sittings.
Baptist
Baptist chapel
The Baptist chapel, built in 1796, seats 250 persons. It was registered for the solemnisation of Marriages on 24 July 1837.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
The Wesleyan chapel affords 250 sittings
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Braunston or Brandestone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Braunston, anciently Brandeston (All Saints))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Braunston or Brandestone are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: