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- 1. St Mary and St Helena, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England
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Benedictine Abbey, now parish church Originally a cruciform, aisled Abbey church, now a parish church. Most of the E end of the nave and clerestorey and the first three bays of N and S arcades survive from the 11th-12thc. structure. The two W bays of the nave arcades are 13thc. and there is a 13thc. chamber, now a vestry, at the W end of the S side of the nave. The church was extensively restored in 1880 by Thomas Jobson Jackson, who rebuilt the 16thc. E wall, the clerestorey, S and N aisle walls and the N doorway. 12thc. sculpture is found on a reset tympanum and on some reset fragments from the original N doorway. The church has a 15thc. detached tower to the NW but very little survives of the conventual buildings.
- 2. St John the Baptist, Eversholt, Bedfordshire, England
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Parish church The church has a chancel with N chapel, nave with N and S aisles, W tower and S porch. The porch, N and S aisles and W tower are 15thc. and the chancel and N chapel are 14thc. The chapel is separated from the chancel by a two-bay arcade. The nave was originally 12thc. although very little evidence of this now survives. In the late 12thc. the nave had a three-bay N arcade, but only the E and W responds of this survive, the two intervening piers were replaced in the 15thc. The nave was lengthened by one bay in the 13thc. The S nave arcade is 15thc. The church was restored in 1864 by G. G. Scott. (VCH, 377) Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the respond capitals of the original N arcade.
- 3. St Mary, Everton, Bedfordshire, England
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Parish church The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles, W tower and S porch. There is long-and-short work on the eastern quoins of the chancel, and the chancel may have formed an early single-cell church. The church as it exists now is substantially 12thc. although the tower, nave clerestorey and S porch are 15thc. There are two small plain 12thc. windows with arcuated lintels in the N wall of the chancel and two in the S. Two reset 12thc. windows are found at the W end of the N aisle and in the W wall of the S aisle. There are traces of a blocked doorway on the S side of the chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found in the N and S nave arcades and on the S doorway.
- 4. St Mary, Shelton, Bedfordshire, England
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Parish church The building consists of chancel, N chapel, nave with N and S aisles and W tower. In the 12thc. the church had a chancel and a nave with N aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in the 13thc. and the N chapel added mid-14thc. The tower is late 14thc. and the N aisle was lengthened at this time. The S arcade may also be late 14thc. and seems to have been constructed in emulation of the N arcade (VCH, 163). The nave clerestorey is 15thc. 12thc. sculpture is found on the E respond of the N arcade.
- 5. Studham, Bedfordshire, England
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Parish church The church has chancel with vestry, nave with N and S aisles and S porch, and W tower. The chancel, probably 12thc. originally, was rebuilt in the 15thc. and again in the 19thc. when it was also widened. The aisles are late 12thc. - early 13thc. and were altered in the 14thc. and 15thc. The W tower and clerestory are 15thc. and the vestry and S porch are 19thc. Five of the late 12thc. to early 13thc. arcade capitals are stiff leaf, three are plain, and four scalloped. The scalloped capitals are described below. The exterior of the church is rendered.
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