The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
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Parish church
Adisham is a village about 6 miles SE of Canterbury. The church of Holy Innocents is a mainly 13thc cruciform building with a central tower. The base of the tower very likely dates from the first half of the 12thc. As Tim Tatton-Brown has observed, the survival of the original lower gables on four round-headed windows establishes that the church was cruciform in shape from the mid-12thc at the latest (Tatton-Brown 1991). There is also a font made of Purbeck marble and a crossing impost, both of which very likely date from the early 12thc phrase in the church's construction.
Parish church
Adstock is a village towards the N of central Buckinghamshire, 4 miles SE of Buckingham to the N of the main road to Aylesbury. The compact village clusters around a junction of minor roads with the church at its SW edge.
St Cecilia’s consists of a nave with a S porch, chancel and W tower. The aisleless nave is 12thc with its N and S doorways in place; the former blocked and the latter covered by a porch bearing the date 1581 on a sundial in the gable. The chancel dates from the 14thc, and has a chancel arch on corbels decorated with naturalistic foliage, trefoil-headed piscina and windows with reticulated or flowing tracery. The N priest’s doorway has been blocked. The 15thc tower has an embattled parapet and the tower arch is tall and narrow with the arch orders dying into the jambs. Its construction may have been part of a major 15thc reconstruction, when the nave walls were rebuilt with two big three-light windows in each and an embattled parapet added. The church is of coursed rubble with ironstone blocks decoratively used on the quoins and buttresses. Romanesque sculpture is found on the two nave doorways.
Parish church
The small stone church at Adwell, near Lewknor in SE Oxfordshire, comprises nave, chancel, transeptal chapels and a slender bell-cote at the W end. The original church, built in the late 12thc., had been a two-cell structure, probably enlarged in the 13thc. By the mid-19thc. it was beyond repair and was rebuilt in 19thc. Gothic style by A.W. Blomfield in 1865. The S doorway, reset from the earlier church, is the only Romanesque survival.
Parish church
The church consists of nave, S porch, N aisle, N chapel, chancel and W tower, built of rubble limestone with some ashlar. The church and churchyard lie close to the angle of two roads, opposite a park.
Items of interest to the Corpus are the S doorway to the nave and a sedilia and piscina built into the S wall of the chancel; remnants of windows and a doorway survive in the same wall.
Parish church
Adwick-upon-Dearne is a village in the Doncaster borough of South Yorkshire, near Mexborough. The church of St John the Baptist is a small building standing at the end of the village, consisting of chancel, nave and open bellcote, weathered. Romanesque features include the south doorway (which has an Early English porch), the original chancel arch, and some miscellaneous material. There is a modern vestry on the north side. All the exterior is coated with grey pebbledash and the building is roofed in blue slate. According to the church guide, the walls were built of limestone and sandstone, and the slate roof replaced thatched reeds in 1881. Borthwick Institute, York, holds consecration deeds 1822, Fac. 1881/5 and Fac. 1910/26.
Church (ruin)
Ruined church of rough, uncoursed stone, consisting of a rectangular nave, of which the W end retains Romanesque work. The E end is 15thc. as is the window in the E wall and that at the E end of the S wall. There are traces of a splayed window in the S wall. The central section of both nave walls has fallen.
Ruined church, formerly cathedral
The church is ruined and roofless and consists of a nave and chancel separated by a solid wall. The nave measures c.9.9 m x 7.16 m, the chancel 13.64 m x 7.19 m. The N and E walls of the nave and most of the W wall are still intact, while only the E part of the S wall remains. The walls are of rubble. There are plain round-headed windows with an interior splay towards the E end of the N and S walls, and a damaged round-headed window in the E wall of the nave, set slightly S of centre. The chancel, which is longer than the nave, was evidently added at a later date. The N and E walls remain, as well as the lower courses of the S wall. The E wall has a 13thc. double window with pointed arches and small sculptures on the central mullion with a plaited motif and a male head. Some sculptures have been reset on top of the S wall in the centre. The lower part of a reconstructed round tower remains near the NW corner of the church.
Ruined church and round tower
The church is mainly 12thc./13thc. with some later medieval additions and incorporates a plain 12thc. S doorway. This has a chamfered label on the exterior and a tall rear arch on the interior. Three courses of the E jamb of a doorway survive in the N wall of the nave. A large, shaped block, possibly an arcuated lintel, has been reset in the S wall to the E of the S doorway. The incomplete round tower ( h. 15.85 m) has a plain, round-headed doorway about 2.00 m above ground level. There is later doorway with a flat lintel at the base of the tower. No sculpture.
Monastic Irish site, former
A 7thc. foundation, although much of the remaining fabric of the church dates to the 15thc. A number of Romanesque fragments are kept in a stone store at the site. Two further carved stones are now held in the Fermanagh County Museum. These are a rectangular limestone block carved with a ecclesiastical figure, and a corbel/section of cornice carved with an exhibitionist figure. In 1894 the stone carved with the ecclesiastical figure was recorded as standing in the graveyard 'about ten yards to the north east of one of the walls of St Ronan's church' (Dagg 1894, 265). The carving of the exhibitionist figure was discovered built into the core of the S wall of the Church (Hickey 1976, 66).
In 2003 two carved stones forming a Crucifixion panel were rediscovered during building work to the gateway to Aghalurcher graveyard. (Stalley 2009)
Church (ruin)
A single cell church, very overgrown. The E wall is missing. There is a round-headed doorway in the N wall. A 13thc. window in the E end of the S wall has a continuous roll but is otherwise plain. The interior is filled with graves, and a barrel-vaulted mausoleum has been built beneath the S window.