Church of All Saints, Lamport

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|name = Church of All Saints, Lamport

|image = Lamport Church - geograph.org.uk - 411186.jpg

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|denomination = Church of England

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|parish =

|deanery = Brixworth

|archdeaconry = Northampton

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|diocese = Diocese of Peterborough

|province = Canterbury

|rector = Rev Canon Mary Garbutt

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|website = http://www.faxtongroup.org.uk/allsaintslamport.htm

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The Church of All Saints is the Church of England parish church of Lamport, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building and stands on the north side of the High Street.

There is no reference to a church or priest in the entry for the parish in the Domesday Book, which was compiled in 1086.{{Cite web|title= Open Domesday – Lamport|url=http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7574/lamport/|accessdate=2015-10-10}} This may indicate the absence of a church building at that stage or, alternatively, only the absence of a resident priest.

The building was first erected in the 12th and 13th centuries. It has a medieval tower but the remainder was rebuilt and added to in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The church contains monuments to members of the Isham family who lived at Lamport Hall from 1560 to 1976. The north chapel dates from 1672. The chancel was rebuilt and aisles built from 1737 onwards. The chancel and south porch are by Francis Smith of Warwick (or his family). The vestry, which dates from 1879 was designed by G. F. Bodley. A detailed description appears on the Historic England website.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1367031|desc=Church of All Saints|grade=I}}{{Cite book|title=Northamptonshire|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|authorlink = Nikolaus Pevsner|publisher=Penguin|year=1973|isbn=0-14-0710-22-1|editor-last=Cherry|editor-first=Bridget|editor-link = Bridget Cherry|edition=2nd|series=The Buildings of England|location=London|pages=284–6|orig-year=1961}}

The parish registers survive from 1587 and, apart from those currently in use, are kept at Northamptonshire Record Office.{{Cite web|title=Parish Registers|publisher=Northamptonshire County Council|url=http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Community/archives/Documents/PDF%20Documents/Parish%20register%20list%20updated%20to%2028%20November%202013.pdf|accessdate=2015-10-10|archive-date=2 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002043256/http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Community/archives/Documents/PDF%20Documents/Parish%20register%20list%20updated%20to%2028%20November%202013.pdf|url-status=dead}} Details of its location and opening times can be found on the Record Office website.{{cite web|title=Northamptonshire Record Office|url=http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/community/archives/pages/northamptonshire-record-office-archives.aspx|accessdate=2015-10-10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007064551/http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Community/archives/Pages/northamptonshire-record-office-archives.aspx|archivedate=2015-10-07}}

Lamport is part of a united benefice of nine parishes: Arthingworth, Draughton, East Farndon, Great Oxendon, Harrington, Lamport with Faxton and Hanging Houghton, and Maidwell.{{cite web |title=Faxton Benefice |url=https://www.faxtongroup.org.uk/welcome.htm |access-date=31 March 2025}} Apart from Faxton, each of these parishes retains its own church building.{{Cite web|title=The Diocese of Peterborough – All Saints, Lamport w Faxton|url=http://www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/find-a-church/find-a-church/church-details/98321|accessdate=2015-10-10}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Faxton church was demolished in 1958; a wall monument to Hester Raynsford (died 1763) from Faxton was installed in Lamport church and a silver cup and paten of 1670 was also transferred to Lamport.'Parishes: Faxton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp167-172 [accessed 2 April 2025].{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |title=The Builings of England; Northamptonshire |date=1973 |publisher=Penguin |edition=2nd}}