Place:Northampton All Saints, Northamptonshire, England

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NameNorthampton All Saints
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Located inNorthamptonshire, England     ( - 1909)

Northampton All Saints is an ancient parish in Northampton, Northamptonshire.

Parish records began in 1559; Bishops Transcripts are available from 1708. Separate registers exist for Northampton Infirmary (Bishops Transcripts from 1827) and Northampton St. John the Baptist Hospital (Bishops Transcripts from 1845). It acted as a civil parish from 1837 until 1909 when these duties were taken over by the County Borough of Northampton.

Christian denominations outside the Church of England identified within the parish include: Baptist, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Unitarian, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Northampton All Saints covers the central-southern part of the town. It is bounded on the north by the parish of Northampton St. Sepulchre, on the east by Northampton St. Giles, on the south by Hardingstone, and on the west by Northampton St. Peter.

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  • A brief history of Northampton by J. W. Johnston
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