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I Location

II General Description

Church consists of nave with a four-bay N aisle of c. 1200 and a chancel. It is primarily constructed of brick, which probably dates to a 17thc. reconstruction. There is a large double bellcote on W end with a corbel table. The corbel table and S doorway are Romanesque.

III Exterior Features

1. Doorways

(i) Nave, S doorway

Round-headed, two orders.

First order: L base weathered with broken bits missing and unidentifiable. The R side has an attic base. Attached, round nook shafts of separate courses. L and R capitals are double scallop with raised arris between scallops. Hollow chamfer impost with a sunk-relief rectangular field on face. In the hollow of the impost on L side are two human heads on the E face of the impost. On the R side impost are what appear to be two weathered animal heads on the W face hollow. The one on the L of this impost appears bird-like having a beak, perhaps with something clasped in the beak (i.e. in the beakhead style) while the one on the R appears more like a quadruped with pointed ears, bulging eyes, and a snout.

Second order: Broad bulbous bases carry detached columns. The L column is en delit while the R is of two large sections of stone; both shafts are too narrow for the diameter required by the bases and capitals and are thus later insertions. The capitals are slightly different from each other. On the L is a multi-scallop capital with raised arris between scallops and quirk on face of shield emphasizing its shape. Roll mould necking. Impost has hollow chamfer with quirk on face. On the R, the multi-scallop capital is similar, but there are two quirks with a tiny roll between them on the shield face. Most of the necking is gone but appears to have been roll mould. The abacus has a sunk-relief, round-headed, arcade on it. Hollow chamfer impost with a sunk-relief rectangular field on face as on first order, but there may have been two figure carvings in the hollow here, one on the S face and one on the W face in the corner where the first and second orders meet. These forms are too weathered to distinguish any detail.

Dimensions

3. Exterior Decoration

c. Corbel tables, corbels

(i) Bellcote

On both the N and S sides of the bellcote, just below the eave of the sloping upper and lower gables, are short runs of a Romanesque corbel table. The shape is an undulating, separated scale ornament with a semi-circular disc nested in the separations.

VII History

In two separate Domesday Book entries a church is noted here on land belonging to both Robert of Tosny and Berengar of Tosny.

VIII Comments/Opinions

There is no change in the sill level of the S doorway. It is likely in its original location. The corbel table on the bellcote is made of bits and pieces that do not fit precisely suggesting that some parts may have come from another location on the church.

IX Bibliography