The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Andrew (medieval)
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Bolton-upon-Dearne is a village 7 miles E of Barnsley. The church of St Andrew the Apostle stands in the graveyard on a rise above the road. The tower and the chancel are of ashlar. The nave is rubble on the S side, much-restored. The plan of the nave is simple, with Saxon and Romanesque openings to the S wall and possibly to the N. The chancel is 14thc, the tower 15th/16thc and the N chancel chapel with vestry 19thc (Ryder (1982), 17-24, plan on p.18).
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The parish of Naunton lies in the Cotswolds, 12 miles E of Cheltenham and 5 miles W of Stow-on-the-Wold. ‘Naunton’ is thought to derive from Niwe Tun, the new farmstead and is now the main settlement in the parish. The village lies on the floor of the River Windrush. Although the church of St Andrew has 12th-c origins, most of the present building dates from a rebuilding of around 1500. It consists of a W tower, five-bay nave with a shorter N aisle and a S porch dated 1878, and a two-bay chancel with a 19thc vestry to the NE. A Saxon cross found under the nave during the rebuilding in 1878 has been reset in the NW wall of the nave and is described in Bryant.
A corbel reset in the E wall of the vestry is the only surviving Romanesque sculpture; however, Glynne reports that until 1878 the S door retained a rounded arch with toothed mouldings dated to the 12thc.
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Boreham is a village in central Essex, 4 miles NE of Chelmsford, on the S side of the A12. The village is set in mainly arable farmland, and has expanded since the 1970s to a significant size. The church, of flint rubble with some ironstone and dreesings of clunch and Roman brick, is on the southern edge of the village and consists of a nave with a central tower and chancel. It was built in the late-11thc or 12thc, and the upper part of the tower was added c.1200. In the early 13thc the nave was rebuilt and aisles added. Towards the end of the 13thc the 2 E bays of the S aisle were widened to form a chapel, and in the 15thc the N aisle was widened. The chancel was rebuilt in the 14thc, and the Sussex Chapel added on the S side in 1585 by Thomas Radcliffe, the then Earl. A spectacular 5-stage timber framed porch that provides a covered way from the main road to the S nave doorway, W of the aisle, was added in the 15thc., and partlt rebuilt in white brick in the mid-19thc. A modern annexe has been added on the N side of the chancel and a vestry on the S side of the nave at the W end. The church was restored by Chancellor between 1868 and 1912. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is in the windows of the 3-storey central tower. Many of them are modern replacements, but the four bell-openings of the third storey are all medieval, together with the 1st and 2nd storey windows on the N side and the 1st storey window on the S side. Both 1st storey windows are plain lancets, and are therefore not described in detail here.
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The church retains no Romanesque fabric in situ but 3 fragments of roll mouldings, incorporated into the plinth of the north aisle, may be remnants from a 12thc. campaign of building. The font is also 12thc. in date.
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Foxton is a small village in the Harborough district of SE Leicestershire, 2.4. miles NW of Market Harborough. The church stands towards the S of the village. It consists of a long chancel, an aisled nave with a N porch and a W tower. The S aisle is narrower than the N, which has a flowing 14thc window and a porch of the same period. The lower parts of the W tower are 13thc. The E part of the chancel was rebuilt, probably in the 17thc, and the church was restored in 1892-93 by H. Hardwicke Langston of London (chancel) and William White. The interestingly renmodelled font is the only Romanesque feature.
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The church has a stone tower, rendered nave and chancel. There was a restoration in 1896; lively plastering in the chancel in the 1950s.
A priest's doorway to chancel, said to be round-headed with a single chamfer (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 424), is pointed.
Of the 12th century are one or two nave windows and a plain tub font; a length of label reused over the S doorway inside is also relevant to this Corpus.
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This is a small church, little used and still without electricity,
comprising a nave with a W bell-turret, opposing N and
S doorways and a brick S porch (1637). There are
fragments of Anglo-Saxon interlace over the N doorway,
which now leads into a vestry. There are two small and
two larger, slightly pointed, Norman windows in the N wall of the nave.
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A church in Magnesian limestone in a red brick suburban setting. It has nave, chancel, south chapel, south aisle, tower and north porch.
In 1951-53 the church was moved to this site from Ferry Fryston, about three-quarters of a mile north of the present position, (approx. Grid Ref: SE 478 251). The OS map of 1893 suggests remnants of medieval strip fields in the area, which is now occupied by the Ferrybridge power station. The burial ground at the old site remains to the east of the power station. The church at Ferry Fryston had been restored by Ewan Christian about 1878, and faculty papers at the Borthwick Institute show the plan and sections of the medieval building (Fac. 1878/4). A painting of the church from the SW dated 1905 is in the vestry. Ryder (1993, 152) has a photograph of the N face of the church on the old site.
After a long history of flooding and, latterly, erosion, it was decided to move the church to Ferrybridge, the modern centre of population. Mottistone & Milner-White (1956), and the mark 0.78m up the R jamb of the doorway, show the flood level of 1866. The rebuilding is said to have used approximately 60 per cent of the original walling and all the worked stone. One bay was added to the aisle at the W end. The S doorway became the present N doorway, and the N aisle was changed to the S side. The vice in the tower was moved from S to N. There are no faculty papers for the removal at the Borthwick Institute.
Romanesque sculpture survives on the N doorway, on the impost of the tower arch and on the font. Accessible parts of the sculpture have been retooled, for example parts of the font and the tower arch.
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Evesbatch is a village in the E of the county, 4 miles SE of Bromyard and 12 miles NE of Hereford. The village is surrounded by farmland and orchards, and stands at the N end of the Leadon valley. The church is in the centre of the village and consists of a chancel with a N vestry and a nave of coursed red sandstone rubble, a S porch and a timber W bell turret with a pyramid roof. Most of the fabric dates to a restoration of 1877 by Thomas Nicholson of Hereford, but earlier features survive including the Romanesque font (the only feature recorded here), some of the masonry of the S doorway, possibly one N nave window in a 14thc style, the nave roof, which may be late-medieval, and some of the benches.
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Great Rollright is situated 3 miles NE of Chipping Norton in rolling countryside close to the Warwickshire border. The church probably dates from the mid-12thc. It now comprises a chancel, nave and S aisle. The chancel arch and S aisle date from the 13thc., and the chancel from the 15thc. The church was restored by G.E. Street in 1852. The Romanesque S aisle doorway features fine mid-12thc. carving, with a lintel and tympanum of chip-carved motifs and roundels, and a unique type of beakhead around the arch. It must have been reset when the S nave aisle was built. There is also an exterior pointed N nave doorway with a slightly pointed rear-arch decorated with chevron on both face and soffit.