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Moreton Pinkney, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Moreton Pinkney, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village has a station on the East and West Junction railway, 9 miles N from Brackley, and 8 W by N of Towcester, and a post and money order office under Byfield (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Byfield. The parish comprises 2438 acres; population, 423. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Grafton. The manor house is ancient, bears the shields of the families of Cope and Gaudier, was restored and enlarged in 1860, and is approached through lodge-gates bearing the arms of the Sempills. A chalybeate spring is at the SW extremity of the village. Lace-making is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £'220 with residence. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles; was restored and partly rebuilt in 1845; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porches and low tower. The tower and bells were restored in 1891 and again in 1893, after a destructive fire, and a fine clock to the memory of Bishop Ashton Oxenden was erected in 1893. There is a Baptist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorthamptonshire 
Ecclesiastical parishMorton-Pinkney St. Mary 
HundredGreens-Norton 
Poor Law unionBrackley 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The registers date from the year 1641.

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

St. Mary the Virgin (parish church)

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of a chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south porches and a low embattled western tower containing 5 bells, and a clock added in 1893 as a memorial to the Right Rev. Ashton Oxenden D.D. late Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada (1869-78), d. 1892: the chancel retains an elegant double piscina, and there is another in the south aisle: the chancel was rebuilt in 1845 by the impropriators, the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford, and in 1846 the church was restored, reseated, refloored, and partly new roofed, at a cost of about £800: in 1891 the tower was completely restored and the bells rehung, at a cost of over £300, but on Sunday, January 3th, 1893, a fire occurred in the tower which destroyed all the woodwork, damaged 4 out of the 5 bells, and destroyed the clock: the whole has again been restored from plans by Mr. Edmund Law, of Northampton, and the bells recast and rehung, at a total cost of £360, this being covered by insurance: in 1909 the church was refloored and partly reseated at a cost of about £220, and contains sittings for 300 persons: an addition of one-eighth of an acre, the gift of Baroness Sempill, was made to the churchyard in 1876, and a further addition of about a quarter of an acre was made in 1909, the gift of Miss Grey.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Moreton Pinkney from the following:


Land and Property

The old manor house, called Moreton Pinkney Manor is an ancient mansion, and bears on it the shields of the families of Cope and Candler; in 1860 it was restored and considerably enlarged, and is approached from the village by a lodge, above the gates of which, carved in stone, are the armorial bearings of the Sempills, Barons Sempill, who formerly resided here.

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Moreton Pinkney are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online:

DistrictSouth Northamptonshire
CountyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNN11
Post TownDaventry

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