The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Saints (medieval)
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The church consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch and W tower. The Romanesque elements recorded here are the S doorway, portions of the tower and possibly the font. The Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project notes an interesting fragment of a tomb effigy in the vestry, which we hope to record later.
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Friskney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 12 miles NE of Boston and just over 3 miles NW of the coast. The church stands at the N end of the village centre. It is primarily a Perpendicular church with W tower, nave with five-bay side aisles, clerestory, and a long chancel. The tower is Norman in its lowest parts, the next stages are 13thc and the remainder is Perp. The tower staircase doorway is 12thc as are the N doorway of the nave, fragments of an arch re-used as a base in the churchyard, and a fragment of a grave-cover in the churchyard wall. The aisles were rebuilt by Butterfield in 1879.
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Preston Bagot is a small, dispersed village in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, 6 miles W of Warwick. The church is on the N side of the settlement and is built of grey limestone rubble. It consists of a nave with a W bell turret and S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. The nave and chancel are largely 12thc, but the church was restored by J. A. Chatwin who lengthened the chancel, added the chancel arch, heightened the walls and added the timber bell-turret in 1878-79. The N nave wall retains its doorway and 3 plain lancets, all of the 12thc. The S doorway is also recorded here.
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West Markham,or Markham Clinton is a village in the Bassetlaw district of the county, 10 miles SE of Worksop. The church is to the N of the village centre. It is built of a mixture of red brick, coursed rubble, ashlar, render and some timber framing, and consists of an aisleless nave and chancel, with a W bell turret.
Portions of the fabric of the church are 11thc and 12thc, and there is a portion of exposed herringbone masonry in the S wall of the nave. The windows are of 14th century and later date. An extensive restoration was carried out 1930-45. The Romanesque features are the 2 S doorways and the font together with two loose pieces of sculpture.
To the S of the church is the Milton Mausoleum,
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Selworthy lies 3 miles from Minehead, on the northern fringes of Exmoor, Somerset. It was rebuilt as a model village in 1828 by Sir Thomas Acland. The village and the surrounding Holnicote estate was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Acland. The church of All Saints, which is built of whitewashed roughcast-rendered rubble with Hamstone dressings, is described by the official Historic England listing text as 'one of the finest churches in the county'. It consists of a W tower, nave with N and S aisles, chancel and S porch. The Romanesque elements consist of a font and a piece of loose sculpture.
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The ancient parts of Langport [probably the etymology of its name is ‘long (market) town’] surround All Saints church on an originally fortified hilltop, stretch W below the hill along a causeway leading to the crossing of the major Somerset river, the Parrett. From late Saxon times the river was a major communication link enabling Langport to be a very important trading hub. It is still noticeably commercial although no longer holding the importance it had before the growth of other Somerset towns based on road and rail developments. Nowadays the principal communications are along the road more or less keeping to the high ground afforded by the Blue Lias ridge and running from Taunton in the W to Somerton and that road’s offshoot E of Langport running along the foot of the S scarp of the Blue Lias ridge and leading to the A303 London road.
To simplify geology and topography, at Langport the River Parrett cuts through the well-known WSW/ENE outcrop of the Limestone variety known as Blue Lias. The current geological description of the surface geology of the hill on which All Saints church perches categorises the stone as belonging to the Triassic type: ‘Westbury Formation & Cotham Member Mudstone & Limestone’. The church itself rests on ‘Langport Member, Blue Lias Formation & Charmouth Mudstone’.
Although the church mainly dates from the 15thc and 16thc, it houses a resited Romanesque lintel.
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Wingerworth is a large village in the North East Derbyshire district of the county, 3 mles SW of Chesterfield. The church stands in the village centre and until 1963-64 consisted of a nave with a 12thc N arcade, a chancel with 13thc lancets and a 15thc W tower. It was restored in 1903-05. In 1963-64 an extension was added to the N in the form of a new nave with an an altar and chancel at the N end, occupying the full width of the original nave and divided into 5 bays by concrete arches. The architect was Bernard Widdows of Naylor, Sale and Widdows. This spectacular enlargement was necessitated by the growth in the size of the village in the early 1960s. The original nave thus became a narthex and the chancel was repurposed as a lady chapel. 12thc features recorded here are the S doorway, the plain chancel arch, the N arcade and the font.
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Croxby is a hamlet in the parish of Thoresway in the district of West Lindsey in NE Lincolnshire. It is in the Wolds, 10 miles SW of Grimsby and 8 miles NE of Market Rasen, and consists of little more than the church situated on a minor crossroads in a landscape of rolling farmland. A church reduced to a shadow of its formal self: a two cell vessel of nave and chancel. It is mostly of the 12thc. though fragments remain of a N arcade built around 1300. A S porch was added in the 17th/18thc. Romanesque elements consist of a S doorway, S arcade, chancel arch and font.
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Fenton is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 14 miles SW of Lincoln and 5 miles E of the centre of Newark. The church stands to the S of the village centre. It has a Perpendicular W tower with a spire, a nave now with three-bay N and S aisles and a chapel on the N side of the chancel. The S aisle and chapel are of the late 13thc. The chancel was rebuilt in 1838. Romanesque elements include the blocked N doorway of the nave, the two western bays of the N arcade, and a pillar piscina. Construction is of coursed ironstone rubble, Ancaster stone ashlar, blue lias and red brick with some rendering.
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Harmston is a village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 5 miles S of Lincoln. The church stands in the centre of the village. The nave with clerestory and side aisles, chancel, and S porch were rebuilt in 1868 by R. J. Withers of London. This followed an earlier rebuilding of the church in 1717 under the patronage of Sir George Thorold of Harmston. Throughout these renovations the W tower seems to have been left intact and is primarily of the 12thc. though capped with a Perpendicular embattled parapet with eight pinnacles. The capitals of the twin bell-openings in the upper stage of the tower and the interior tower arch are Romanesque.