Newton Field Centre is a Grade II* listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1957. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Newton Field Centre
- WRENN ID
- peeling-lantern-ochre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1957
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Newton Field Centre, Newton and Little Oakley, NN14 1BW
- OS grid reference
- SP 884 832
- Coordinates
- 52.44042, -0.70024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newton Field Centre is a parish church that dates back to the 14th century, with a 15th-century tower and a chancel added in 1858 by William Slater. It has been converted into a field centre in the 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring an ashlar tower and spire, and Collyweston stone slate roofs with coped gables.
The structure includes a two-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses and a parapet. The bell stage has two-light windows with transoms, four-centred heads, and hood-moulds, while the west side also features a traceried oculus in the lower stage. The spire is topped with a finial and weathervane, dated 1981, and has two tiers of lucarnes.
On the south side of the nave, there is a gabled porch with an arched entrance that has 20th-century double doors, along with two two-light Decorated windows with hood-moulds. A buttress is located at the east end. The two-bay chancel, designed in the Decorated style, has two-light traceried windows, and the east end is buttressed with a three-light Decorated style east window. The north side of the chancel mirrors the south side but includes a flat-roofed boiler house with a chimney situated between the windows.
The north side of the nave features three two-light Decorated windows, with the westernmost window now having a fire escape balcony, and a blocked arched entrance. The parapet is made of brick. Inside, the church has 19th-century roofs, but all fittings have been removed, and the western part of the nave has been divided horizontally to create a gallery for dormitory accommodation.
Local climate
Newton Field Centre sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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