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Billing is a civil parish in eastern Northampton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It covers the Great Billing, Little Billing, Ecton Brook and Bellinge areas. It is geographically the largest area of Northampton.
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- Chancel
- North Chancel Chapel
- Nave
- North Aisle
- South Aisle
- West Tower
The N. wall is pierced by a two-bay arcade inserted in 1867 byE.F. Law. At the W. and E. ends of the wall are two straight-headedPerpendicular windows with two trefoil-headed lights and pierced spandrels,the window to the E. probably being in situ. Above the arcade are dwarfshafts of 1867 intended to support a new vault or roof, which was neverbuil...
The chapel was built in the late 17th century, perhaps in 1687corresponding with the chancel datestone. It was the funerary chapel ofLord Thomond, whose monument by Bushnell stands against the N. wall.There are two vaults below, one for the Thomond family, the other for thelater, Elwes, lords of the manor. The original quoins survive at the N.W.and...
The nave was much damaged in 1759 when the former spire wasdestroyed by lightning. The four-bay N. arcade is not uniform. The W.respond and its capital are polygonal but the westernmost pier is roundwith a round moulded capital. The centre pier has a round shaft but asquare capital carved with lozenges and leaf forms at the angles. Theeasternmost p...
The N. aisle was rebuilt after 1759; the classical quoins survive atthe N.W. angle. The four windows in the N. wall are 19th-century Gothic.The arch to the N. chapel is c. 1867. The W. window matches those inthe N. wall but the rear-arch appears to be medieval. The roof is ceiled.
On the E. wall is a reredos of c. 1400, which has a tall centralrecess with an ogee arch, flanked by two smaller recesses also with ogeearches. The S. doorway is probably contemporary. It is two-centred buthas a crocketed hood mould with stops of foiled shields. The windows inthe aisle are 19th-century Gothic like those in the N. wall, and replace1...
The tower rises in three stages, without set-backs. The diagonalbuttresses rise only to the second stage. The W. window is a lancet witha trefoil-headed slit above. The belfry openings are of two lights withtrefoil heads. The parapet, like that of the nave, is Elizabethan and haspierced oval panels. b(15) Earthworks(centred on SP 81066299), at N. e...
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Great Billing. "GREAT BILLING, a parish in the hundred of Spelhoe, in the county of Northampton, 4 miles to the E. of Northampton, its post town. The Peterborough and Northampton branch of the London and North-Western railway passes near it, and there is a station at Billing Road.
2 days ago · The parish contains the villages of Little and Great Billing but most of the land of the old parishes is now incorporated within Northampton. Fieldwork and air photography indicate intensive early settlement, perhaps mainly Roman, to the N. and E. of Great Billing.
