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The following is a list of churches in Northampton. Presently the list is only comprehensive as regards churches that have their own building. Some defunct and former churches are also included. Non-Trinitarian groups are not included; nor are chapels belonging to other institutions such as schools and hospitals.
| Name | Image | Denomination | Grid reference | Notes/history |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mark's, Kingsthorpe |  |
Church of England | SP746646 | Built circa 1960. Part of the Kingsthorpe team ministry.[1] |
| Northampton Church of Christ | Churches of Christ | SP810642 | Congregation began 1980. Building opened for worship 1984.[2] | |
| St John the Baptist, Kingsthorpe | .jpg) |
Church of England | SP746631 | There has been a church on the site since the 12th century. It was extensively rebuilt and restored in the 19th century. It was a dependent chapelry of St Peter's, Northampton, throughout the medieval period, only being raised to the status of a separate parish in 1850.[3] Part of the Kingsthorpe team ministry.[4] |
| St Aidan's, Kingsthorpe | Roman Catholic | SP749634 | Built in 1964.[5] | |
| Kingsthorpe Baptist Church | Baptist Union (/ Methodist) | SP750633 | Congregation founded 1823. Building (Grade II listed) dates from 1835.[6] The church is in the process of forming a Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP) with Kingsthorpe Methodist Church, which was formed in 1977 from the amalgamation of two previous Methodist churches and had its own building from 1980 to 2016. The LEP is set to start in September 2024. Currently the two churches share a Sunday service but are formally distinct.[7] | |
| St David's, Kingsthorpe | Church of England | SP759633 | Built in 1940. Part of the Kingsthorpe team ministry.[8] | |
| Providence Baptist Chapel | Gospel Standard Baptist | SP784630 | The church was founded in 1791.[9] It moved to its current building in the suburbs after World War Two.[10] | |
| Duston Chapel | Order of St Leonard[11] | SP716626 | Before 2012 the building was occupied by New Duston Free Church, which may or may not be a previous incarnation of the same church.[12] On large-scale Ordnance Survey maps the church is named "Church of the King." | |
| St Francis, Duston | Church of England | SP721620 | The church was opened in 1968.[13] It is part of the Duston and Upton team ministry. | |
| Church on the Heath | Church of England / Baptist | SP735626 | St Augustine's Church of England church and King's Heath Baptist Church were both built along with the King's Heath estate in the 1940s and 50s. The current LEP has existed since 2016. The Baptist church has been sold, and the congregation meets in a primary school with the intention to renovate and move into the St Augustine's building.[14] | |
| Osborne Road Gospel Hall | Gospel Hall | SP751628 | The building previously belonged to Osborne Road Methodist Church.[7] It was built in 1895 and the Methodists ceased to use it around 1979 when the Kingsthorpe Methodist Church building (see above) was built. | |
| Holy Trinity, Balmoral Road | Church of England | SP754625 | The church is known as Holy Trinity and St Paul. The building (Grade II* listed) is Holy Trinity only, and was completed circa 1910.[15] | |
| Kingsley Park Methodist Church | Methodist | SP766621 | The building (Grade II listed) dates from 1899.[16] Now a worshipping community of Northampton Methodist Church which since 2022 is formally one church meeting on ten sites.[17] | |
| St Matthew's, Northampton |  |
Church of England | SP767621 | Built in 1893-1895.[18] Prior to this point services were held in a 'tin tabernacle'. |
| Broadmead Baptist Church | Baptist Union | SP771627 | The church was opened in 1932 and was rebuilt between 2018 and 2021.[19] | |
| St Gregory the Great, Northampton | Roman Catholic | SP773620 | A temporary building was used from 1947. The current building was opened in 1954.[20] | |
| St Alban the Martyr, Broadmead Avenue | Church of England | SP777629 | Consecrated in 1938.[21] | |
| Living Grace Church | Independent | SP785622 | Planted in 1932 as an Assemblies of God church. Moved in the 1950s to a site in Adnitt Road. In the 1980s became Abington Christian Centre and later became an independent church. In 2016 sold the building on Adnitt Road in order to meet in Weston Favell Primary School. | |
| Sacred Heart, Weston Favell | Roman Catholic | SP794629 | Built in 1976.[22] | |
| Emmanuel LEP | Church of England / Methodist /Baptist | SP796627 | The church opened in 1974.[23] In addition to the main church building in Weston Favell, the Emmanuel Group has two church plants (Boothville Community Church and Rectory Farm Community Church), founded in the mid-1990s, which do not have their own building. .[24] | |
| St Andrew's, Great Billing |  |
Church of England | SP808629 | A medieval parish church.[25] In a united benefice with Little Billing.[26] |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Great Billing |  |
Roman Catholic | SP811628 | Mass was said in the chapel at Billing Hall from 1874. The current building was erected in 1878.[27] |
| Great Billing Methodist Church | Methodist | SP811626 | Built in 1841.[28] Now a worshipping community of Northampton Methodist Church which since 2022 is formally one church meeting on ten sites.[17] | |
| Greek Orthodox Church of St Neophytos the Recluse, Northampton |  |
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain | SP714612 | Greek Orthodox services were held in All Saints' church from 1968, then in St Peter's, Marefair, from 1973. In 1998 the former hospital chapel of Princess Marina Hospital (built 1887[29]) was bought and consecrated for services.[30] |
| St Patrick's, Duston | Roman Catholic | SP721613 | Services begun 1941; first church built 1953; rebuilt 1994.[31] | |
| Duston URC | United Reformed | SP721611 | Originated as a mission of College Lane Baptist Church with services first held for adults 1837; first building erected 1844. Constituted as an independent church 1923.[32] | |
| St Luke's, Duston |  |
Church of England | SP724610 | A medieval parish church dating from the 12th century.[33] |
| St Andrew's Methodist Church, Duston | Methodist | SP730619 | Built post-WW2. Now a worshipping community of Northampton Methodist Church which since 2022 is formally one church meeting on ten sites.[17] | |
| St Mary's, Dallington | .jpg) |
Church of England | SP737618 | A medieval parish church, with the chancel rebuilt in 1883.[34] Grade II* listed.[35] |
| Spencer Bridge Road Gospel Hall | Gospel Hall | SP743610 | Began in 1965 as a plant from Duke Street Gospel Hall. Acquired its own building 1978-1979 (building formerly the St James Church Institute).[36] | |
| Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Thomas, Northampton |  |
Roman Catholic | SP752616 | Services began 1823; first chapel built 1825 on current site; new church built 1844, extended 1864 and again in 1948-1955. Mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton. |
| Miracle Church of God in Christ, Northampton | Church of God in Christ | SP751615 | The Northampton site of a multi-site Bedford church which began in 1961.[37] | |
| Duke Street Evangelical Church | FIEC | SP756612 | Founded c. 1870 as an Open Brethren church. | |
| Polish Catholic Church of SS Stanislaus & Lawrence | .jpg) |
Roman Catholic | SP757612 | The building (Grade II* listed) was originally built in 1878-79 as St Lawrence the Martyr (Church of England). Since c. 1980 it has been used as a Polish Catholic church.[38] |
| Mount Pleasant Baptist Church | Baptist Union | SP763613 | Church founded 1873; joined Baptist Union 1881; present building opened 1887.[39] | |
| St Michael and All Angels with St Edmund, Northampton | Church of England | SP764613 | Built 1881-1882. Grade II listed.[40] | |
| The Entrance Of The Theotokos Into The Temple Romanian Orthodox Church | Romanian Orthodox | SP764613 | Meets in St Michael's church.[41] | |
| Queensgrove Methodist Church | Methodist | SP761610 | Begun in 1879. Originally Kettering Road Primitive Methodist Church. Merged with Queens Road Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1960 and name changed to Queensgrove.[42] Now a worshipping community of Northampton Methodist Church which since 2022 is formally one church meeting on ten sites.[17] | |
| Abington Avenue URC |  |
United Reformed | SP769617 | In 1901 the congregation of King Street Chapel in the town centre (which originated in 1776 as a breakaway group from Castle Hill church[43]) moved to a site in Abington. Temporary buildings were used until the current building, by Sutton & Gregory,[44] was opened in 1911.[45] Named Abington Avenue Congregational Church, it joined the URC in 1972. |
| Park Avenue Methodist Church | Methodist | SP772619 | Built in 1925.[46] | |
| Christ Church, Abington | Church of England | SP771612 | Consecrated in 1906.[47] | |
| SS Peter & Paul, Abington | .jpg) |
Church of England | SP775614 | A medieval parish church, rebuilt except for the tower in 1821.[48] Now stands in the middle of Abington Park. |
| St Peter's, Weston Favell |  |
Church of England | SP788618 | A medieval parish church.[49] |
| All Saints, Little Billing | .jpg) |
Church of England | SP804617 | A medieval parish church.[50] In a united benefice with Great Billing.[26] |
| St James, St James End |  |
Church of England | SP742606 | Built in 1868-1871. The tower was completed in 1924.[51] |
| Castle Hill (Doddridge) URC | .jpg) |
United Reformed | SP749605 | Northampton's oldest Nonconformist church. The congregation was established in 1662; the building (Grade II listed) dates from 1695.[52] |
| New Testament Church of God House of Prayer, Northampton | New Testament Church of God | SP753605 | The building (Grade II listed) dates from 1863. It was previously occupied by College Street Baptist Church (see below).[53] | |
| The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton |  |
Church of England | SP753609 | One of only four surviving medieval round churches in England; one of the four medieval parish churches in Northampton that survived into the 19th century. Grade I listed, it was probably built by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton circa 1100, making it the oldest building in the town.[54] |
| All Saints, Northampton |  |
Church of England | SP754604 | A medieval church (one of the four medieval parish churches that survived into the 19th century), largely rebuilt in 1680 after the Great Fire of Northampton. Grade I listed. |
| St Giles, Northampton | .jpg) |
Church of England | SP759605 | A medieval church (one of the four medieval parish churches that survived into the 19th century).[55] |
| Northampton Quaker Meeting | Quaker | SP757607 | The building has been used for Quaker meetings since the early 19th century.[56] | |
| Wesleyan Holiness Church, Northampton | Wesleyan | SP760609 | Meets in the building that formerly belonged to St Gabriel's (see below). | |
| New Covenant Church Northampton | Independent | SP761608 | Meets in a building which was built in 1897 as a Unitarian church and remained as such until 2000.[57] | |
| Victoria Road Congregational Church | Congregational Federation | SP762606 | The church was established in 1873; the current building dates from 1889.[58] | |
| St Mary’s Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Northampton | Jacobite Syrian Orthodox | SP762606 | Meets in Victoria Road Congregational Church. | |
| St Mary's, Far Cotton |  |
Church of England | SP749592 | The parish was established in 1875, but the church was not completed until 1887, with the tower added in 1902.[59] |
| Towcester Road Methodist Church | Methodist | SP750593 | The church began in 1863, with a new chapel built in 1888 and the current building erected in 1924. (The 1888 chapel was used by the Salvation Army but demolished in the 1970s.)[60] | |
| St Benedict's, Hunsbury Hill |  |
Church of England | SP733585 | Built in 1982.[61] |
| The Abbey Centre Baptist Church, East Hunsbury | Baptist Union | SP742580 | Alma Road Baptist Church began 1856 in Far Cotton; first building 1860; new building on Abbey Road 1895; relocated to new building in East Hunsbury 1987.[62] | |
| SS Francis & Therese, East Hunsbury | Roman Catholic | SP741579 | Presumably built in the 1980s with the rest of the Hunsbury estate. | |
| St Edmund's, Hardingstone |  |
Church of England | SP763578 | A medieval parish church.[63] |
| St George the Martyr, Wootton |  |
Church of England | SP762565 | A medieval parish church.[64] |
| Name | Image | Denomination | Grid reference | Notes/history |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Crispin's | Church of England | Opened in 1884. Now closed.[38] | ||
| Headlands URC | United Reformed | SP783630 | Began as a Congregational church in 1944. This church closed in 2021.[65] | |
| Weston Favell Methodist Church | Methodist | SP789621 | The exterior has "Wesleyan Chapel 1853" inscribed on a stone.[66] The Methodist Church building is no longer used now that the Methodist church is part of the Emmanuel LEP. | |
| St Paul's, Semilong | Church of England | SP752618 (approx) | Opened in 1877. This church has now closed and disappeared and its name merged with Holy Trinity. The name survives in St Paul's Road, Semilong.[38] | |
| St Lawrence the Martyr | Church of England | SP757612 | Opened in 1879. Now closed and used as a Polish Catholic church (see above).[38] | |
| St Bartholomew's or St Lawrence's | Church of England | SP753614 | In use from the early 12th century until approximately 1520. The site is now occupied by The Poplars funeral home.[67] | |
| St Michael's, Upton |  |
Church of England | SP717602 | Originally a private chapel to Upton Hall; a chapel of ease to St Peter's (see below) until 1966; closed for regular worship in 1980 and now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[68] |
| Doddridge Memorial URC, St James | United Reformed | SP743605 | Demolished in 1998. The adjoining church hall and Sunday school rooms are now a community centre called the Doddridge Centre.[69] | |
| St Peter's Church, Northampton |  |
Church of England | SP749603 | A medieval church (one of the four medieval parish churches that survived into the 19th century). Closed in 1995 and now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Grade I listed. |
| Scarletwell Methodist Mission | Methodist | SP749607 | Begun in 1840 and continued until 1958.[70] | |
| St Andrew's, Northampton | Church of England | SP750608 | Built in 1842 to cater for the rapidly expanding population of The Boroughs. Demolished in the early 1970s.[71][72] | |
| St Katherine's, Northampton | Church of England | SP752605 | Built in 1839, demolished 1950.[38] The site is now partially occupied by St Katherine's Gardens.[73] | |
| St John's | .jpg) |
Roman Catholic | SP754601 | A 15th/16th century building, later used by the Roman Catholics. Now a wedding venue and restaurant.[74] |
| College Street Baptist Church | Baptist | SP753605 | The church was founded in 1697 as College Lane Baptist Church; it became College Street Baptist and had its building rebuilt in classical style in 1863.[75] It has since closed and the building is now occupied by the New Testament Church of God (see above). | |
| Jesus Fellowship Church |  |
Independent | SP759607 | Began as Bugbrooke Baptist Church; became a rapidly growing charismatic church 1969; expelled from Baptist Union 1986; bought the former The Deco theatre (built 1936) c. 2000 and rebranded it as the Jesus Centre; disbanded 2019. |
| St Edmund's, Northampton (Victorian) | Church of England | SP764609 | Built in 1846. Located on the current St Edmund's Road, it was demolished c. 1980 and its name merged with St Michael's.[38][76][77] | |
| St Edmund's, Northampton (medieval) | Church of England | SP760608 | A medieval church which stood on what is now Abington Square. Built in the 12th century to cater for the expansion of the town beyond the medieval walls, it fell out of use when the population later declined during the 15th century and has long been demolished.[76] The name was resurrected for a Victorian church (see above). | |
| St Gabriel's | Church of England | SP760609 | In 1894 an iron church, previously used to house St Matthew’s church in Kingsley Park, was erected. Services stopped in 1925. The building now belongs to the Wesleyan Holiness church (see above).[78] | |
| Hardingstone Baptist Church | Baptist | SP766578 | The Baptist church was erected in 1857 and has since closed.[79] |
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