The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St George (medieval)
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The compact village of Edington lies on the N side of the Polden Hills on a lower slope in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, about 8 miles W of Glastonbury. Edington was a chapelry of Moorlinch until it became a separate parish in 1863. The church was completely rebuilt in 1878-79 by Edwin Down in a fabric of coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings. The present building consists of a nave with a small N transept, chancel with N vestry, a S porch, and a W bellcote. The only Romanesque feature is a font.
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Brailes is a village in the Sratford on Avon districty of S Warwickshire, 8 miles E of Banbury. The village is divided into Upper (E) and Lower (W) Brailes, and the church is on the N side of Lower Brailes High Street. It is a large church of coursed ironstone with a tall W tower, an aisled nave with a S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. It is largely of 1325-72 with a 15thc tower, and was restored by William Smith from 1877-79. He rebuilt the chancel arch and the N aisle and clerestorey. The vestry was enlarged 1892-93. None of the fabric is Romanesque, but there is a section of an interesting carved shaft loose in the church.
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The nave and chancel of the church, or more likely just their N walls, date from the 12th century. The N door of the nave and the plain font are also Romanesque. A window of c1300 has been inserted into the E end of N wall of nave and the rest of the church dates predominantly from c1300 and much from the 19th century.
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The church has a Perpendicular west tower but the rest of the exterior dates from the restoration and reconstruction in 1854 by T.H. Wyatt. The church guidebook suggests that the whole church, except the tower was demolished and rebuilt. However, as Pevsner suggests, the details of the nave arcade, and a number of fragments survived from the 12thc.
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The present church has a late 13thc. chancel and nave to which a N aisle was added c.1320. Nave and aisle were lengthened by two bays
c.1330-40. It was restored in 1866-67 when the N vestry, S porch and W bell-turret were added. RCHME (II, 27) claims that the NE angle of the chancel is part of the 12thc. church, but this is doubtful. However, numerous carvings reused inside the church testify to the existence of an earlier building, dating to the second quarter of the 12thc. All the 12thc. stones are reset inside the church, and are described in section IV.5.c. below
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Clun is a small town in the Shropshire Hills, in SW Shropshire, 13 miles W of Ludlow and 12 miles SW of Church Stretton. It stands on the River Clun, a tributary of the Teme. It was an important crossing on the ancient drove road from Wales to the markets of the Midlands, and a stronghold of the de Says, important Norman landowners.
The church is on the S side of the river and consists of an aisled 12thc nave with a 14thc N porch, a 12thc W tower remodelled in the 17thc. and a 19thc chancel. The medieval work is of coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. As well as renewing the chancel, G. E. Street virtually rebuilt the entire church in 1876-77, although he used medieval material when possible. The features reported here are the N and W doorways, the nave arcades and a corbel reset above the 13thc NE nave doorway.
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Milson is a village in the south of the county, close to the borders with Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The nearest good-sized town is Kidderminster (Worcestershire) 11 miles to the E. The church stands at a junction of minor roads, where a cluster of farm buildings could be said to constitute the village centre.
It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and consists of a 12thc nave and chancel with a S porch and a low W tower, probably early 13thc, with a low, shingled bell stage and a pyramid roof. Inside the tower arch is 13thc and the chancel arch has been replaced by a timber proscenium. The nave has 3 12thc lancets and the chancel one on each side. Romanesque work recorded here is a S nave doorway and a font.
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The seven South Elmham villages; St James, All Saints, St Nicholas, St Cross, St Margaret, St Michael and St Peter, to which may be added Homersfield, sometimes referred to as South Elmham St Mary, lie in a scattered group between Bungay and Halesworth in NE Suffolk, to the W of the Roman road known as Stone Street. North Elmham (the centre of the see until 1071) is over 30 miles away, to the NW of Norwich, and both apparently took their name from Aethelmaer (bishop of E Anglia 1047-1070) the landholder before the Conquest. This is not certain; Tricker suggests that the name meant villages where elm trees grew. The land here is flat, generally arable and sparsely populated; the villages rarely more than a few houses clustered around the church without shops or pubs. St Cross consists of a loose cluster of houses around a crossing of The Beck, a stream that runs into the Waveney. The church is on rising ground on the N side of the stream, with a moated hall site 500 yards to the E. It consists of nave, chancel and W tower; both nave and chancel being very tall. The aisleless nave is 12thc. with original doorways surviving on the N and S. The S is under a 14thc. -15thc. porch, and the N is badly damaged and blocked. The original nave windows are all gone, having been replaced by 15thc. windows at upper and lower levels (i.e. effectively a clerestory above the main lateral windows). The E gable of the nave is crow-stepped. The chancel arch is 19thc, but there are windows with intersecting tracery at the N and E of the chancel, suggesting a date ofc.1300. The S chancel windows and the brick S doorway are 15thc. The W tower is 14thc., of knapped flint with chequerwork on the buttresses similar to that at South Elmham St Peter. The parapet battlement is 15thc. and decorated with tracery patterns in flushwork, also similar to St Peter's. Construction is otherwise of flint with traces of render remaining on the nave and chancel, and knapped flint for the S porch. Work on reseating the nave and a W gallery were carried out by J. D. Botwright of Bungay in 1840-41. The two nave doorways are the only Romanesque features.
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Orleton is a village in the N of the county, 5 miles N of Leominster and just over a mile S of the Shropshire border. The church stands in the village centre, and has a long and broad nave, a 13thc chancel with a S vestry, and a W tower with a broach spire. The nave is of 12thc date, the chancel was rebuilt in the 13thc, but the W tower is somewhat problematic. Its W doorway is round-headed but deeply chamfered. If it is 12thc it must be reset, because the 1st-storey W window is a pointed lancet. The 2nd –storey N and S windows, however, are round-headed. The font and a shaft section are the only carved survivals of the original Romanesque building and both are works of the Herefordshire School. The mutilated stone was in the crypt of Hereford Cathedral in 1989, but had been returned to the church by 2012.
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The small rural parish of Hampnett lies W of the Fosse Way, 16 kilometers SE of Cheltenham and adjoining Northleach. The church consists of a chancel, a nave with a S porch, and a W tower. The 12th-c chancel consists of choir and sanctuary, the latter having a rib vault. The chancel arch is also 12thc, as is the N wall of the nave. The S nave wall was rebuilt in the 15thc, when the S porch and perpendicular W tower were also added. The N nave doorway was rebuilt in the 19thc but has a Romanesque tympanum. The church was restored in 1868 by G.E. Street, when the sanctuary arch and vault were rebuilt and the chancel roof was decorated by the London firm of Bell & Almond. After becoming rector in 1871, William Wiggin transformed the appearance of the church interior by having the rest of it painted with similar patterns and with texts on the walls; Verey (1979, 267) considers that ‘whatever we may think of the result, the courage and motives of the rector are worthy of admiration.’