Editing Northampton (section)

== Notable buildings ==
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, is one of the largest and best-preserved round churches in England. It was built in 1100 on the orders of the first Earl of Northampton, [[Marquess of Northampton|Simon de Senlis]] and based on a plan of the original [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] in Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web |title=Northampton's oldest building |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire/content/articles/2007/06/19/church_of_the_holy_sepulchre_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

Simon de Senlis also built Northampton Castle c. 1084, which was for many years one of the country's most important castles. It was a royal residence, held The Parliament of England many times, and was the site of royal tournaments and feasts. Thomas Becket was imprisoned there until he escaped. The castle suffered many fates and was eventually demolished to make way for the railway station in 1879.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/northampton-castle-remains-revealed-in-pictures-1-4671880| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026134551/http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/northampton-castle-remains-revealed-in-pictures-1-4671880| archive-date = 26 October 2017| title = Northampton Castle remains revealed in pictures – Northampton Chronicle and Echo}}</ref> A [[postern]], dismantled from its original position and rebuilt into a wall by the station, and a part of the keep mound are all that remains.

The current All Saints' Church was built on the site of a great Norman church, All Hallows, which was almost completely destroyed by the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675. All that remained was the medieval tower and the fine vaulted crypt, but by 1680 All Saints' had been rebuilt, with the help of donations from all over England, including 1,000 tons of timber from [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]], whose statue can be seen above the [[portico]]. Famously, the poet [[John Clare]] liked to sit beneath the portico of the church. It is home to a choral foundation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.northantslife.co.uk/archie-walks-77-miles-for-northamptonshire-choral-foundation/ |title=Archie walks 77 miles for Northamptonshire Choral Foundation |first=Dave |last=Williams |website=northantslife.co.uk |date=23 May 2017 |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref>

[[File:Northampton Express Lift tower.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The [[National Lift Tower]] is a prominent feature of the town's skyline]]
Other notable church buildings include [[Northampton Cathedral]], the mother church of the Roman Catholic [[Diocese of Northampton]] and seat of the [[Bishop of Northampton]]; St Peter's (mostly built in Norman times); [[St Giles' Church, Northampton|St Giles' Church]]; [[St Matthew's Church, Northampton|St Matthew's]] in Phippsville, which was built between 1891 and 1894, has a [[Henry Moore]] sculpture of the [[Madonna (art)|Madonna]]. St Edmund's Church (built in 1850) closed in 1978 and was demolished in 1980<ref>{{cite book |last=Holloway |first=Roland |title=Roland Holloway's Northamptonshire |publisher=Northamptonshire Libraries |year=1985 |isbn=0-905391-10-1 |editor-last=Unknown |location=Northampton |pages=Plate 68}}</ref> (its bells are now in [[Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington]]).

Just south of the town centre Delapré Abbey, a former [[Cluniac]] nunnery, the County Records Office and site of the second Battle of Northampton, which was founded by Simon II de Senlis, the son of first Earl of Northampton, in 1145. At the edge of the Abbey, one of the three standing [[Eleanor cross]]es still remains, in memory of [[Eleanor of Castile]], whose body rested here on its way to London. The original top of the monument has been knocked off and replaced several times from as early as 1460.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/535329 Hardingstone Eleanor Cross:: OS grid SP7558 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland – photograph every grid square!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126000909/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/535329 |date=26 November 2022 }}. Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved on 25 August 2011.</ref>

St Andrew's Hospital, which opened 1838, and its new building William Wake House, is one of the largest [[Neoclassical architecture|neo-classical]] structures in England. Northampton & County Club, which was established in 1873, was also the old county hospital before becoming a private members' club; the cellars are medieval. [[Northampton Guildhall]], which is Grade II* listed, was constructed mostly in the 1860s in [[Victorian Gothic]] architecture designed by [[Edward William Godwin]], and extended in 1889–92<ref>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |title=Northamptonshire |publisher=Penguin |year=1973 |isbn=0-14-0710-22-1 |editor-last=Cherry |editor-first=Bridget |edition=Second |series=Buildings of England |location=London |pages=325}}</ref> and in the 1990s. The [[Clare Street drill hall, Northampton|Clare Street drill hall]] was completed in 1859.<ref>{{NHLE|num= 1375621|desc=Territorial Army Centre and drill hall|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref>

78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian Town House remodelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for [[Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke]] in 1916–17. It contains notable Mackintosh interiors (which have been restored) and is his only major domestic commission outside Scotland. It is open to the public. One of these Derngate buildings was previously home to Northampton High School, an independent Northampton girls' school.

The {{convert|127.45|m|ftin|abbr=on}} tall [[National Lift Tower]] is a dominant feature and visible from most of the town. A [[Terry Wogan]] radio phone-in during the 1980s came up with the name "Northampton Lighthouse" as Northampton is one of the furthest places from the sea. It is also known as the "Cobblers' Needle". It was built for testing new lifts at the Express Lifts factory, now closed. Though now redundant, it is a [[listed building]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Architectural Heritage – Northampton's "Lighthouse" |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/heritage/england/northants/article_2.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

The former Greyfriars bus station served the town from 1976 until 2014. In the 2000s, it was featured on [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Demolition (television)|Demolition]]'' programme as the ugliest transport station in the United Kingdom and worthy of demolition. Demolition work began in March 2014, following the move of bus services to [[North Gate bus station]]. The Greyfriars was completely destroyed on 15 March 2015 by way of a controlled explosion.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 March 2015 |title=Northampton Greyfriars bus station demolished |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-31895351}}</ref>

=== Memorials ===
[[File:Town and County War Memorial, Northampton (15).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|The [[Northampton War Memorial|Town and County War Memorial]]]]
Northampton contains several significant war memorials. The [[Northampton War Memorial|Town and County War Memorial]], unveiled in 1926, commemorates casualties of the First World War from all of Northamptonshire; it replaced a temporary cenotaph which stood in Abington Square from 1919. Designed by [[Edwin Lutyens|Sir Edwin Lutyens]], it consists of two large obelisks and an altar-like stone sited in a small garden behind All Saints' Church. The Town and County memorial is a grade I listed building and part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1191327 |desc=The Town and County War Memorial |access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref> As the Town and County memorial does not contain a list of names of the fallen, the [[Royal British Legion]] launched a campaign which resulted in the construction of a second memorial, dedicated solely to the town; this memorial, in Abington Square, takes the form of a garden of remembrance with the names of the dead inscribed on the garden walls. A bust of [[Edgar Mobbs]] was later moved into the garden; Mobbs was a rugby player for Northampton Saints who was killed while serving in the First World War.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sawford |first=Philip |title=Northampton: Remembering 1914–18 |publisher=[[The History Press]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-7509-6154-7 |location=[[Stroud, Gloucestershire]] |page=136}}</ref> A memorial to [[Nobel Prize]] winner [[Francis Crick]], who was born in Northampton, was installed on Abington street in 2005. The sculpture, ''Discovery'' by artist Lucy Glendinning, was funded by the Wilson Foundation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sculpture celebrates DNA pioneers |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4522024.stm |date=13 December 2005}}</ref>