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- 1. Amberley Chapel, Herefordshire, England
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Parish church The chapel is simple with nave, chancel and a bellcote rather than a tower. Details are mainly early 14thc., but there is a late-12thc. corbel re-set in the E chancel wall. This is the only Romanesque feature. The chapel was in ruins in 1868.
- 2. St Peter, Bromyard, Herefordshire, England
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Originally Minster, now parish church The building is cruciform, with a chancel, nave, transepts and a crossing tower; this last added in the 14thc. The church is essentially late Romanesque but much altered and restored in later times. The S aisle is an addition of c.1190 and the N aisle is early 13thc. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in the 14thc. The three Romanesque doorways predate these alterations and were re-set into the aisles and chancel. Duncumb (1812, 89) states that the fabric was 'completely repaired' in 1806. Williams (1987, pl. 2) illustrates an important 18thc. print showing the church from the SW but does not reveal its source. The font bowl predates the present church.
- 3. St Mary, Fownhope, Herefordshire, England
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Parish church St Mary's is one of the longest churches in the county at 36.3 metres (119 feet). The central tower is 12thc., as is the eastern part of the nave. A south aisle was added in the 13thc., and nave and aisle extended westward c.1300. The present chancel is of the early 14thc., as is the chapel to the south of the tower, now a vestry. A shingled oak broach spire was added in the 14th or 15thc. The jewel of Fownhope is a tympanum of the Virgin and Child by Herefordshire School sculptors, now detached from whatever doorway it once adorned and displayed inside the church. Also recorded here are the E and W tower arches, and the tower bell-openings, string courses and angle corbels.
- 4. St Bartholomew, Westhide, Herefordshire, England
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Parish church . Formerly a chapel of Stoke Edith. Westhide is a village in E central Herefordshire, 5 miles NE of the centre of Hereford. It lies in hilly farmland on a minor road that snakes from Withington to Ocle Pychard, and has the wooded Shucknall Hill to the S. The village centre is compact, with dwellings grouped around the church. St Bartholomew’s is a stone church with nave, S aisle, N vestry, chancel and W tower. The 12thc. tower is unbuttressed with small lancets having pointed or roughly segmental chamfered heads. It has a modern slate pyramid roof. The N wall of the nave was rebuilt in the 19thc., when a N vestry was added at its E end. At that time it was given plate-tracery two-light windows in a style of the mid-13thc. The S porch is also a 19thc. addition. The S aisle, with a two-bay arcade, was added in the 14thc., and an early 14thc. date also fits the reticulated aisle windows and the chancel with its arch. The major restoration was in 1865-67, by Thomas Blashill of London, and included repairs to roof and walls, the rebuilding of the N nave wall and the chancel, and reseating. Romanesque features described below are the tower arch and a plain font.
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