The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
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Cathedral, former
Situated c. 24 m E of the round tower, the cathedral has a simple rectangular plan measuring c. 20.80 m x 8.40 m, incorporating the side walls and W end and part of the E wall of an earlier church (Westropp, 1897). The antae and trabeated W doorway with inclined jambs survive from this early church; the upper walls and E gable were rebuilt in the later medieval period. There are later medieval doors in the N and S walls near the W end of the nave, and three Gothic windows in the S wall. A later sacristy (8.10 m x 3.00 m) is attached to the N wall.
Church (ruin)
A small church, with nave and chancel, located immediately N of what could be a 10thc. cathedral, c.7.16 m x 3.91 m and 2.67 m x 3.2 m (Westropp, 1900). The altar survives in the chancel. The church has a square W window, and a ruined S doorway.
Church (ruin)
A small ruined church, located north of the round tower, cathedral and oratory. It consists of a nave and a chancel 7.3 m x 5.1 m and 3.3 m x 3.27 m respectively (Westropp, 1900); with some remains of a Romanesque chancel arch. The nave walls and E gable are complete, the chancel walls approx. 1.6 m high. The round-headed E window has a wide interior splay and a rebuilt arch, the S window of the nave has a damaged opening and repaired interior. The S door, with a pointed arch, is later medieval.
Heritage Centre
Romanesque fragments stored in an office of the Scattery Island Centre in Kilrush. For a description of the site itself, see Scattery Island. The stones have been numbered by Duchas 000500-000507.
Ruined church, formerly Arroasian priory
Ruined priory church with a cloister to the S and some remains of monastic buildings. The chancel and parts of the W end of the nave remain. There is Romanesque sculpture on the label inside the window in the S chancel wall, and on a number of loose fragments, possibly jamb stones from the chancel arch.
Parish church
The church has a W tower, an aisled nave and a chancel with N chapel. It is a large, heavy building, largely of boulders and ashlar, standing high on a raised walled churchyard in the centre of the village. The nave (without aisles) and the chancel seem to be on the twelfth-century plan.
Aisles were added in the late 12thc., but the arcades were completely rebuilt at the restoration. A watercolour of 1868 (Twycross-Raines 1920, 29) shows the interior before the arcades were substantially rebuilt in 1870-1: they look very plain early pointed; he describes the assortment of piers and arches then existing. In the rebuilding a single design of capital was used throughout.
Inside in the S aisle is a sundial often dated to the early 11thc.. Reset in the same wall is a small figure, called a ‘Roman soldier’. The altarpiece in the N chapel is set with tile mosaic from Meaux, the pieces being brought from Hilston church after the bombing. The effigy in the chapel (in the general view) is of Sir John de Melsa, died 1377.
For our Corpus, there are 11thc. windows, blocked, in the N wall of the chancel; and a third windowhead with sculpture in the S wall of the chancel outside. Chevron voussoirs are reused over the 14thc. priest’s doorway nearby. A reset figure is included, but its date is uncertain. Twycross-Raines says that the chevron voussoirs and the windowhead are not constructed from the same kind of stone as that used in later parts of the pre-restoration building (1920, 30).
Parish church
Sherburn in Elmet is near Selby in North Yorkshire. All Saints is a large church standing to the W of the town and on the crest of the Magnesian limestone escarpment, well seen from the northern approach along the minor road from Lotherton and Aberford, or from Headwell Lane to Saxton. It has a four-bay twelfth-century nave, W tower in a fifth bay enclosed by the aisles, a 13th c. chancel, S chapels of 14th and 15th century dates; porch by the S aisle, with entry to one of the chapels, vestry and organ on N side of chancel.
The church was planned with both aisles and the nave in one build. The S wall disappeared when the aisle was widened, but the N wall still incorporates much 12th century fabric. An unusually low N wall to the N aisle is indicated by the single surviving window opposite Pier 2: England 1931 suggests that nave and aisles were covered by one continuous roof. On the N wall, as well as the arrowslit window, there is a blocked doorway in Bay 2. Externally, on the W wall of the N aisle, half a plain round-headed arch is seen, blocked, and the slope of a roof of some date.
Internally, the remains of an apsed E end to the N aisle survives in the S wall beyond the E respond of the N arcade. The remains are apparent by the stilted curve in the line of the S wall near the organ, with the remains of a plain and chamfered string course. Romanesque remains in situ all relate to the nave, comprising south entrance; nave and its arcades and N aisle;and the lower parts of the W tower.