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- 1. St John the Baptist, Adel, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
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Parish church The church has a rectangular nave and chancel, with a bellcote of 1839 above the W gable. There are square, traceried windows on the S side and the E wall has been rebuilt, but otherwise the whole is substantially 12thc. For 19thc. works, including restoration in 1879 by Street, see Draper (1908). The church is built in local sandstone and stands in a large churchyard overlooking suburban Leeds on one side and fields and woodland on the other.
- 2. All Hallows, Bardsey, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
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Parish church 'Nowhere in the neighbourhood of Leeds can the archaeological growth of a parish church be better studied, with the survivals in situ, in spite of some destruction, from pre-Conquest days to the later middle ages and beyond, than at Bardsey' (Kirk, 1937). The church consists of a W tower of Anglo-Saxon date including belfry level windows, an originally Anglo-Saxon nave with Norman N and S arcades, chancel and tower arches cut into it and 14thc. N and S aisles and chancel. The 12thc. doorway was reset on the new S wall in the 14thc. and the W end of the Norman aisles are marked by the surviving simple windows adjacent to the tower. According to Kirk, restoration in 1909-1914 uncovered these windows and lowered the nave floor. It probably also accounted for the retooling of various features. Sculpture is found on the S doorway, capitals of arcades and various fragments.
- 3. St Helen, Bilton in Ainsty, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
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Parish church A basically 12thc. church with nave, chancel, N and S aisles, S chapel and N vestry, NW tower but a double bell-cote over the W gable. Restored 1869-70 by Sir G. G. Scott. His post-restoration plan is hung in the church near the S door. A view of the church seen from the S, c.1850, is hung near the blocked N door (no details of artist or source). Romanesque sculpture is found on the S entrance to the porch; the chancel corbel table (most of which is enclosed by later aisles); the chancel arch; capitals of the N and S arcades.
- 4. St Peter, Birstall, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
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Parish church Birstall church stands in a large churchyard on sloping ground. That there was a good late medieval church is witnessed by the preserved carved pew-ends kept in the church. It was completely rebuilt 1863-70 except for the W tower, the lower part of which is 12thc. and much restored (Ryder 1993). That has small windows to N and S. In all parts the fabric is of yellowish gritstone. The tower arch is recut but probably the old build. Otherwise, our period is represented by fragments. There is most of a grave-marker or small coffin lid with lozenge pattern and a patterned font, which has been broken in two.
- 5. St Helen, Burghwallis, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
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Parish church An attractive church with many interesting features. Pevsner says its nave has 'excessive use of herringbone masonry; cf. Kippax'. Restored 1883-85, J. L. Pearson. Norman W tower unbuttressed. Windows in tower plain and simple. Herringbone walling, e.g. on Nave S wall. Font might be represented by a few inches of the rim of the present font.
- 6. All Saints, Bramham, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
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Parish church The church, of local limestone, stands on a knoll in the middle of the village within an irregular layout of streets and surrounded by a large churchyard. The building has or had a 12thc. nave, W tower and N aisle, and an Early English S aisle as well as an extended 13thc. chancel. Restoration in 1853 included the removal of a W gallery and the insertion of an imitation tower arch, which was wider than before, and a font in Norman style. The round-headed W doorway in the tower was removed. (For all this, see Borthwick Institute Faculty papers 1853/2. Kirk (1936) reproduces plans and elevations from Faculty papers.) Further work was necessary after a fire in the tower in 1874. This meant the provision of new 'Norman' windows, and long stones being inserted across the face of the tower to bond it. Sculpture is in corbels on tower, N arcade, tower arch (spurious) and a loose slab.
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