The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
"Bury St Edmunds"
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The church has a continuous nave and chancel—all of one height—under a single thatched roof. The chancel dates to c.1300. An aisle was added on the south side of the nave in the 14thc and a square tower at the W end in the 15th. A programme of refurbishment took place in 1865. Two circular double-splay windows high up in the N wall indicate that the nave dates partly to the 11thc, although the font at the W end of the building is now the only Romanesque sculpture in the building.
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One of the seven parish churches in the Burnhams, the series of villages lying in close proximity to each other in a once prosperous coastal region of north-west Norfolk. The medieval building at Burnham Ulph had a chancel and an aisleless nave. By the early 19thc. the chancel was partly ruinous, as recorded in J. S. Cotman’s engraving, published in 1838. The church was substantially rebuilt in 1879. The chancel arch, pointed and with a keeled soffit moulding, is supported on crocket capitals and is datable to c.1190. There are reused fragments of an earlier 12thc date in the SE chancel buttress.
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All Saints comprises a chancel, nave, N aisle and polygonal W tower. The tower and chancel date from the 14thc and were restored in the mid-19thc. Both nave and chancel are thatched. All that can be easily detected of the early fabric of the church is the reset N doorway-which bears the building's only Romanesque sculpture-and the W wall of the nave.
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The parish church of Minto was moved to its present site in 1830-31, when the design was carried out by William Playfair. A number of carved stones from the old church site are deposited inside the tower.
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Little Whelnetham stands in the rolling countryside of the Lark valley,
some 3 miles SE of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. The village amounts to a
cluster of houses and farm buildings on the road from Sicklesmere to Bradfield
St George. Curiously, Great Whelnetham its nearest neighbour, belongs to a
different benefice.The church stands on the road through the village. Immediately to the E
of the present chancel are the rubble remains of what
may have been a round tower. If so, the present church was built to the W of an
earlier one, but Pevsner suggests that it may not have been a W tower at all,
but a separate watch tower, or an apsidal chapel. St Mary Magdalene's is of
flint with a W tower, nave and chancel. The earliest
feature is a 12thc. pillar piscina, set in the S nave
wall near the E end. It could, therefore, have served an altar against the E
nave wall but it may be reset. The nave itself is 15thc. in all its windows and
N and S doorways. The S doorway is set under a 15th-16thc. brick
porch. The chancel has a plain
13thc. priest's doorway, piscina and aumbry. Its windows and chancel arch
are 14thc. The tower is 14thc. too, to judge from the flowing W window. Its
bell-openings have been replaced, and a battlemented brick parapet added. The
pillar piscina is the only Romanesque feature.
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Nowton is in the Hundred of Thingoe and stands in flat, arable land, recently given over to rape crops, only 2 miles S of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. St Peter's has a nave with a N aisle, a short chancel with a S vestry and a W tower. The nave has a S doorway in situ and a N doorway reset in the 19thc. aisle. Also reset in the E wall of this aisle is a plain 12thc lancet. The S nave windows are round-headed but 19thc. and the S wall of the nave is mortar rendered. The N aisle is neo-Romanesque (Pevsner says 'painful neo-Norman') dating from 1843. There is no clerestorey but a dormer in the roof. The arcade is of four bays, and the exterior wall in flint with stone dressings, has the usual overblown detailing on the windows and a gable over the doorway. The chancel is ofc.1300, but was restored, and the vestry added, in 1876. The flint west tower is 14thc. and has no buttresses but a tall plinth and a polygonal south bell stair. When the church was visited the interior was being repainted and no internal photography was possible. The only Romanesque work is on the two nave doorways.
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Fincham is a village in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, ten miles S of King's Lynn. The church stands in the village centre, and is an imposing mid-15thc building of flint and carstone with ashlar dressings, consisting of a 5-bay aisled nave with a S porch, a chancel and a 3-stage W tower. The only Romanesque feature is an early-12thc font, brought to St Martin's from the former church of St Michael, Fincham, a 12th and 13thc church demolished in the mid-18thc.
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The river Lark cuts through the Fornhams (All Saints on the W side of
the valley and St Martin and St Genevieve on the east) after passing through
Bury St Edmunds on its way to join the Great Ouse near Ely. Fornham All Saints
is only half a mile from the northern outskirts of Bury, but retains its
village character. All Saints church has a nave with S aisle and S
porch, a chancel, N chapel and
W tower. The earliest work is the 12thc. S doorway, heavily restored. The nave,
however, was rebuiltc.1300 (one Y-tracery S window), and the porch was added in the 15thc. The S aisle was then added,
abutting the E wall of the porch, but extending
alongside the chancel to form a S chapel. The
chancel itself is 14thc., with a three-light
reticulated E window and flowing tracery windows on the N side. Its piscine is
curiously placed to the W of the sedilia. On the N a
chapel was added in the 15thc. with a squint to the main altar. The tower is
13thc. in its lower parts, with simple lancets. The bell-storey is ofc.1300
and there is a battlemented parapet with gargoyles and pinnacles. The restoration was by Sir Arthur Blomfield, in
the 1860s, and he replaced the aisle and chancel roofs,
renewed most of the windows to their original designs, restored the
porch and added the tower pinnacles. Romanesque sculpture is found on the restored S
doorway.
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Hunston is nearly 8 miles E of the centre of Bury St Edmunds in flattish
farmland, mostly arable. The village lies on the minor road linking it with
Stowlangtoft, Badwell Ash and Walsham-le-Willows, and the church stands in
farmland 0.3 miles S of the village centre. It is in the grounds of the former
hall, but this is now gone and there are farm buildings S of the church. St
Michael's has a W tower, nave with S transept and chancel. The tower is of knapped flint and dates from the
14thc. The nave, chancel and transept are of flint in
mortar. The nave is 13thc, with N and S doorways of that period, the S under a
timber porch. There is a blocked 13thc. S window and
the N windows are 14th and 15thc. work. The transept has a W doorway, E windows
and a double piscina, all of the 13thc. The
chancel and its arch are 13thc. too, but its roof has
been heightened with brick and it was restored in 1887. A carved 12thc. window
head is reused in the masonry of the chancel N wall,
and the author thanks Colin Myram for alerting him to its presence. The plain
font is also said to be
12thc.
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Moreton is a village in SW Essex, 6 miles E of Harlow and 10 miles W of Chelmsford. It stands on the line of the Roman road from London to Bury St Edmund’s, in arable farmland. The church and Hall are outside the main village centre to the east. St Mary’s consists of a chancel, a nave with N and S porches, the former now converted into a vestry, and a brick W tower. Nave and chancel are 13thc, the tower was built in 1787, the S porch in the 15thc and the N in the 19thc. The church was restored in 1864-69. The only 12thc feature is the Purbeck font.