Brixworth is a large village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. In 2001 it had a population of 5,162. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the smallest unit of local government. ... The Daventry district is a large local government district of western Northamptonshire, England. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...
The village is located around 5 miles (8km) north of Northampton next to the A508 road (it is now by-passed). Just east of the village is the large Pitsford Reservoir, and to the east is the Brampton Valley Way, and the Northampton & Lamport Railway. The village contains one of the oldest saxon churches in the country (founded 610AD). This article is about Northampton in England; for other places of the same name see Northampton (disambiguation) Northampton Guild Hall, built 1861-4, E.W. Godwin, architect Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in central England upon the River Nene, and the county town of... The Brampton Valley Way was officially opened by Lady Hesketh on 8th April 1993 in a ceremony at Boughton Crossing. ... Description The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire England, and is based at Pitsford And Brampton station, roughly 5 miles (8 km) north of Northampton. ... The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. ... Events October 4 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. ...
The area around Brixworth once had a large ironstonequarrying industry, and several industrial railways existed in the area to serve it. Ironstone is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, important as a source of iron. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... A display of a narrow gauge industrial sand train An industrial railway is a type of private railway used exclusively to serve a particular industry inside a mine or factory compound. ...
Brixworth also includes a local football team; Brixworth Juniors Football Club, which encourages children of all ages throughout the community to get active and play sport.
The date of the construction of All Saints' Church, Brixworth is unclear; however, it is without question one of the most outstanding churches of its period in England.
Brixworth was thought of as a suitable centre from which to spread the Gospel to the non-Christian natives of Mercia, the middle kingdom of early England.
Although Brixworth has similarities with many contemporary buildings, it does not follow any one type slavishly, and this may well be because of its geographical position where it was open to many influences from all sides.
There are four likely sources that the Brixworth masons could have drawn on for a monastery or church built circa AD 675: the Romano-British School, such as Silchester; the Anglo-Saxon School, such as Escomb; the Kentish School, such as St. Augustine, Canterbury; or possibly the Northumbrian School, such as Jarrow.
The west end window at Brixworth has a modified form of a Byzantine architectural technique which was not adopted in Italy until the end of the ninth century and Germany in the tenth century.
The crypt ambulatory dates from the original apse but is usually assigned a late eighth or early ninth century because, with the exception of Brixworth, this style of ambulatory was not known until that period.
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