The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Hallows (medieval)
Parish church
High Melton is a village five miles W of Doncaster. The church set back from the small village, on a hill, up a green lane. It consists of chancel, nave, S aisle and W square embattled tower, with a brownish slate roof; a S Lady Chapel was added during the second half of the 14thc. The nave is curiously tall, narrower than the chancel, and is not set out on the same lines as either the tower or the chancel; it looks as if the nave could be the survivor of a Saxon original. The later S aisle is as wide as the nave.
Romanesque sculptural decoration consists in the S arcade, in the chancel arch, and in a number of reset elements in the exterior of the N wall and in the window to the E of the doorway.
Parish church
All Saints' has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with four-bay
arcades. The three eastern bays of the S arcade are early 13thc., with quatrefoil
piers and stiff-leaf capitals. The W bay is 14thc. and was added at the same time as the tower. The four-bay Narcade and the Naisle windows are of c.1320. The arcade also has quatrefoil
piers, but with moulded capitals. The lower parts of the N arcade
piers were encased in neo-classical plinths, perhaps in the 18thc. The nave has N and S doorways under porches. The present chancel dates from 1830. The W tower is 14thc. in its lower parts and Perpendicular above. The original spire was left unfinished, and the present one, recessed behind a battlement and equipped with three rows of lucarnes and a liberal application of crockets, dates from the restoration of 1859-60 by W. Slater. The only Romanesque sculpture is found on the font.
Parish church
Nave of 12thc. with S aisle added early 13thc. Present chancel 14thc. Original W tower reputedly destroyed 1644, rebuilt 1847 and 1876 and extended to S 1971. Plain 12thc. N doorway (blocked). A single corbel is the only 12thc. sculpture to survive, although a second is recorded.