
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

St Augustine (medieval)
Parish church
Lcoking is 3.5 mi SE of Weston-super-Mare. The original settlement lies on the W tip of a small outlier of Blue Lias (stretching 2.5 mi E to Banwell village) between the limestone of Bleadon Hill 2 mi to the S and Milton Hill 2.5 mi to the N (both forming parts of the extreme westerly reach of the Mendip Hills). The S side of the village ends abruptly at a scarp above Locking Rhyne; the church, at about 18m above sea-level, is near the edge of that scarp and enjoys a relatively rural aspect to the S. Locking is named after its original inhabitants ‘Loccingas’ (i.e., ‘Locc’s People’). From 1974 to 1996 Locking was in the County of Avon. The church dates from late 14thc/early 15thc, and was restored in 1814/16 and in 1833. It has a noteworthy Romanesque font.
Parish church
Broxbourne is a town in the Broxbourne Borough of SE Hertfordshire. It is bounded to the E by the River Lee, which forms the border with Essex. Ware is 4 miles to the N and Hatfield is 9 miles to the W. The church stands at the E of the town centre, alongside the River Lee. It is substantially of the 15thc, with a 2-bay aisled chancel continuous with the 4-bay aisled nave. There is no chancel arch but a step separates the two areas. The N chancel aisle contains the organ, and the tomb of Sir William Say (d.1529), builder of the S chapel who is commemorated by an inscription on the exterior. The S aisle houses the tomd of Sir John Say (d.1478) and his wife Elizabeth, and on the E wall the magnificent early-17thc tomb of Sir Henry and Lady Ursula Cock. The W tower has a turret on the SE angle, and the S porch in mid-17thc work. A modern parish room has been added on the S side. The only Romanesque feature is the Purbeck font.
Parish church
Clutton is a village on the edge of the Chew vally elevated at between 100m and 200m in the Mendip Hills, astride and aside to the east of the main A37 road running south from Bristol to the English Channel coast, 9 miles from Bristol and Bath, and 11 miles from Wells. The church of St Augustine of Hippo which is built of squared and coursed sandstone with freestone dressings to tower, is at an altitude of c.120m above OD, 300m east of the main road, adjacent to the usual farm, whose fields surround the church except to the east. The church consists of a W tower, nave, chancel, N and S aisles and S porch. The Romanesque elements comprise the late 12thc. S doorway and chancel arch.
Parish church
Brookland is a settlement in the Romney marsh area of Kent, some 5 miles W of New Romney. The large, light, aisled church of St Augustine was built on a mound to raise it above the flood water. It has a famous detached hexagonal timber belfry. The chancel is undifferentiated architecturally from the rest of the building, which contains traces of medieval glass and wall-paintings. Apart from the lead font, the building contains no material pre-dating the 13thc.
Parish church
The church is a large Gothic building, standing on a rise within the grid of the planned medieval streets (VCH V, 172). Pevsner & Neave (1995, 453) call it ‘one of the five largest and grandest parish churches of the East Riding.’ It was restored in 1868-77 by G. E. Street.
The earliest sculpture in good condition is a cluster of stiff-leaf capitals inside, where the S transept turns into the S nave aisle. Some writers suggest the building was begun as early as 1180, but there is little more than a blocked window, the roundness of the arch of the S transept doorway and some shallow pilasters on the wall nearby to recall Romanesque work.
Chapel
Sookholme is a village about 4 miles N of Mansfield and about 10 miles S or Worksop, in W Nottinghamshire. The chapel was built in the 12thc and lies to the E of the village; it was subject to a rebuilding when it was reduced in size in the 19thc and then extensively restored in the 20thc. The chapel consists of a coursed and squared rubble building with a chancel and a nave. The Romanesque features are the chancel arch and the font.