The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
"quintin"
Parish church
The limestone ashlar and rubble church has chancel, a central tower with N vestry, and nave with S aisle and S porch. The nave is 12thc. as is the tower (Pevsner suggests c.1125 for the tower arch), although its upper parts are neo-Norman. The chancel is 19thc. The S arcade was added in the first half of the 13thc. The S porch was probably 15thc. originally, but was rebuilt in the 19thc. It houses a 12thc. doorway and the reset porch doorway is of c.1175. Romanesque sculpture is found on the tower arch, S porch doorway, S doorway, font, and on a carving set in a niche in the W wall of the nave. The church was altered and restored in 1826 and 1851 by J. H. Hakewill. The chancel was rebuilt in 1888 by C. E. Ponting, an event commemorated on the dated consecration stone.
Ruined church
The parish church is now an unroofed ruin in the care of the parish council, see VCHER VII, pl. 13.The earliest work there is a ‘chancel screen’ formed from parts of the 13th-century N arcade (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 639).
The VCHER account continues by saying that ‘the medieval church evidently had a Norman font…[which was] removed to a Hull church in 1939’. The church was St Martin’s, Anlaby Road, Hull and the font is called C13 by Pevsner & Neave 1995, 639; there is a CRSBI entry for this modern church which contains the font.
There are no remains of the priory. Morris 1919, 263, says ‘everything was ruthlessly swept away c.1810’. The site is described in Brown 1886, 209-10.
No Romanesque sculpture at either site in Nunkeeling.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Very little remains of the fabric of the 12thc church, which comprised chancel, nave, possibly N and S transepts and a W tower. The tower-arch into the nave has plain responds from late in that century with chamfered imposts now supporting a 13thc pointed arch, and there are fragments from the 12thc chancel arch, already altered in the 14thc, the whole of which has been re-assembled at the E end of the N aisle. The present building consists of a chancel of c.1768 rebuilt in 15thc style in 1864 when an organ-loft was appended to its N side, a nave, a 15thc N transept rebuilt as an aisle, a similar earlier S transept and S porch both created 1852-3 in 15thc style and late 12thc W tower rebuilt and stair-turret attached in the 15thc and again in 1852-3 when the bell chamber and buttresses were added.
Parish church
The church has a varied fabric: boulders from glacial deposits, and medieval brick with stone dressings. It is mostly 15thc, with an aisled nave, a choir and a W tower.
There is a small round-headed priest’s doorway, and fragments of more certainly dated twelfth-century reset in the tower. The N and S arcades, although pointed, have details of 12th-century type.
Parish church
A largely 14th-century church of chancel and N chapel, nave, and W tower, but probably based on a 12th-century nave and chancel since it incorporates 12th-century walling on the S nave wall and adjacent part of the chancel. The north chapel extends further W than the chancel and is entered from the nave. The church is visited for its 18th-century glass by James Peckitt of York, and memorials in alabaster and brass to members of the St Quintin family (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 449-51). Stone coffins are in the N chapel (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 450).
In the S nave wall there is a slit window, two mass-dials and tooled ashlar. The early ashlar fabric is likely to be a Jurassic stone, with chalk used inside wherever possible, see the E wall of the tower below the old roof-line.
There is no certain Romanesque sculpture (depending on your definition).
Parish church, former
Holme church was never very rich, and 'it is said that a vicarage was never ordained there' (Barker, 2). In 1862, all except the chancel was demolished. The chancel arch was blocked and a door inserted there. Colour photographs of this reduced building and the loose capital, taken probably some time in the 1980s, have been supplied to the Corpus by Mr. Harold Hall and Mr. Geoffery Creaser, residents.
'The derelict stone chancel, the only surviving part of St Peter's church, was demolished in 1989. The foundations remain in the overgrown churchyard' (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 473).
Five pieces of twelfth-century sculpture from Holme were reset in Etton church.
Parish church
The church, as most descriptions mention, is approached from the S through a tunnel of yew trees. 'The body of the church is Norman, as shown by the corners of the nave and a blocked S window visible from the aisle' (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 365). Morris 1919, 122, notes the blocked window, and corbels above the arcade.
There is a west tower, an aisled nave, and a chancel, which is not large. The arcades are similarly pointed throughout, giving unity to the interior. The lighting from clerestory windows is also good. Against this setting, the various items of the 18th-century woodwork also look well. In the E bay of the N aisle are notable tombs (under restoration in 2004). The church was not restored in one great Victorian sweep, but has been improved on by patrons in the 18th century, and the Rev. Robert Wilberforce, son of the reformer, in the mid 19th. Some of the stonework has been made good with a fine cement-like filler, although in places this is coming loose.
There is a font with arcading; much of what must have been a round-headed chancel arch remains (but how much is uncertain), and a few corbels are seen from the S aisle. Some of these features have been retooled or even more severely reworked.
Parish church
Wing is in the E of the county, in the ancient hundred of Cottesloe. It is a substantial
settlement on the road from Aylesbury to Leighton Buzzard, 6 miles NE of Aylesbury and a
mile from the Bedfordshire border. The village stands on a hill in the Vale of
Aylesbury, with the church in the centre. The church at Wing is one of the most important Anglo-Saxon churches in the country. Its
precise chronology is a matter of some dispute, but it seems certain that there were at
least two pre-Conquest campaigns. It consists of an aisled nave with N and S doorways
under porches, a polygonal apse raised above a vaulted crypt,
and a W tower. The following account of the building and its chronology is largely based
on the conflicting published views of Fernie (1983) and Gem (2003). The 7-sided apse is
decorated with tall thin pilaster strips at the angles, which
carry semicircular blind arches. Above the arches can be seen the worn traces of
triangular pediments. At ground level are arched windows into
the crypt, enclosing niches inside. The
crypt is vaulted; the vault carried on four rectangular
masonry piers that define a central chamber surrounded by an
ambulatory. The original entrance was via narrow passageways from the church, but these
are now blocked and entrance is from the exterior on the S side. In Gem's account, the
lower parts of the outer wall, including the crypt windows and
their niches, may date from the 8thc. The upper part of the
apse is a 9thc. rebuilding, and the crypt vault and ambulatory is
either contemporary or slightly later. For Fernie the outer crypt walls are early 9thc. and the ambulatory and upper apse walls are late
10thc. The central vessel of the nave is a narrow rectangle, almost three times as long as its
width. High above the chancel arch at the E end is a double
round-headed E window with arched heads divided by a central shaft; the only surviving Anglo-Saxon window in the nave and probably of
c.1000. The nave walls rise to a height of 35 feet (10.7 m), and their upper parts are
much thinner than the lower parts, with a sloping offset partway up the clerestory zone.
This may represent an Anglo-Saxon heightening of walls that were originally lower, but
there is no obvious change in construction on the exterior. The nave aisles, with a
3-bay
arcade at the W end of the nave are an original feature of the
church according to the accounts of Fernie (1983), the Taylors and Jackson &
Fletcher. Gem, on the other hand says that they are not an original part of the
building, and are an Anglo-Saxon or, at latest, an early Norman addition. 8th-9thc.
fabric is certainly to be seen around the NE angle of the N aisle, including a blocked
arch in the E wall. For Fernie this confirms that the entire aisle is early, while Gem
suggests that there were side-chambers at the E end of each aisle in the original
design. There is now a 4-bay
arcade; the 3 western bays being round
headed and carried on square piers with stepped imposts, while the E bay on either side is
13thc.-14thc. and represents a later piercing of the wall for chapels; St Katherine's on
the S side and the Lady Chapel on the N. There are some traces of 12thc. work at Wing:
the base of an Aylesbury-group font on the S porch and various
loose stones. Two of these have chip-carved decoration and
another is an engaged trefoil capital. There was much
replacement of windows in the 14thc. and 15thc., and the S porch,
bearing the arms of Mowbray and Rokes is 15thc. too. The 15thc. W tower is of three
storeys with angle-buttresses and an embattled parapet. Dates
have been added to the exterior clerestory walls in decorative ironwork ties,
representing churchwardens' repairs in 1649, 1657, 1669 and 1792. The church was
restored by George Gilbert Scott in 1850, by George Gilbert Scott junior in 1881 and by
John Oldrid Scott in 1892-93. The 12thc. font base and loose stones are recorded in
detail below. A pre-Conquest date has here been accepted for the arcades, but photographs of them are included for the sceptical.
Parish church
Ryther is a village almost equidistant between Tadcaster and Selby in North Yorkshire. The church is in a quiet and open situation not far from the river Wharfe. It has a simple nave and chancel, perhaps of pre-Conquest origin, together with S aisle, S porch and a vestry made in the W end of the aisle. Mostly limestone, but quite a lot of gritstone. The wide S aisle was added about 1300 according to Pevsner; this has three bays, and in this are the best of the four or five medieval altar stones.
A leaflet in the church mentions a rebuilding of the chancel in 1843, and restorations in 1861 and 1898. For the restoration in 1898, by Hodgson Fowler, the papers (Borthwick Fac. 1897/16) do not include any drawings before work commenced. At this restoration it was proposed that the roofs were taken off and the gables taken down at least as far as solid old work, and rebuilt; a brick tower was to be taken away, the W wall of the nave refaced perhaps as a consequence, and the S porch renewed. Instructions in the specification say 'All old carved and moulded work that may be found or is in the part to be pulled down to be carefuly preserved and built into the porch walls as directed to show it'.
There is definitely Romanesque interest in the dozen or so reset pieces which are outside on the walls and buttresses of the S aisle, the W wall of the aisle, and inside the porch. Almost all are listed below as Features are in the exterior walls of the south aisle. Pevsner notes two reset window-heads, late Saxon or early Norman, in the N wall of the nave, and there is another twelfth-century slab on that wall too. The doorway to the chancel, at least in part of the late 12th century, is restored. Inside the church, the chancel arch is of uncertain date, and the font too.
Parish church
Church consisting of nave with early 12thc. S arcade of two bays and late 12thc. N arcade of three bays. 13thc. chancel, N and S aisles and tower with 15thc. spire. N porch and late 12thc. font near N doorway.