An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1984.
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'Editorial Notes', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire( London, 1984), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/xxxi [accessed 27 July 2024].
'Editorial Notes', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire( London, 1984), British History Online, accessed July 27, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/xxxi.
"Editorial Notes". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire. (London, 1984), , British History Online. Web. 27 July 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/xxxi.
EDITORIAL NOTES
1 Sections in each parish are in the order: Introduction; Ecclesiastical Buildings; Secular Buildings.
2 The account of each parish is prefixed by a number which is repeated on the accompanying map (Fig. 1).
3 A reference number is printed before the account of each monument. This number appears on the map of that area of the parish which is most populated. Monuments outside this area are given national grid references.
4 The twenty-four parishes are shown on 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey sheets 141, 142.
5 Constructions since 1850 have usually been termed 'modern'.
6 Churches are normally described in the order E. to W. and N. to S., repetitive features such as arcades and windows being numbered in the same order. Dates in the description of memorials are those of the deaths of the persons commemorated, as recorded; surnames in brackets are maiden names. Proper names are recorded as they appear on the memorials or other objects but otherwise the normally accepted spelling has been adopted.
7 Plans are either hatched to indicate the dates of construction or shown in black for original walls and in outline for later walls.
8 For monuments not readily orientated to a cardinal point a conventional N. point has sometimes been assumed.
9 Unless otherwise described, walls are of rubble; roofs are gabled and covered with stone slates; mullioned windows are ovolo-moulded; and date-stones are understood to indicate date of construction. Only doorways and windows of interest are described.
10 Class references in the accounts of most houses are designed to avoid repetitive descriptions; the classes are explained in the Sectional Preface (see Classification of Post-medieval Houses; Fig. 5).
11 Heraldry in the Inventory is listed under the patronymic only but is blazoned in a separate glossary.
12 Where access to certain church fittings has proved difficult, descriptions have been quoted from published sources where these are believed to be reliable: e.g. North (for bells). Churchyard monuments have not been recorded in detail.
13 A glossary of architectural terms at the end of the volume contains only those terms which are used in the Inventory and for which an insufficient definition is given in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, 7th ed. (1982).