The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St George (medieval)
Parish church
This is a small church of cruciform plan. The nave, N aisle and probably chancel are of Transitional style, from c. 1190. The transepts were added c. 1260. Romanesque features are the late 12thc S doorway, an arch in the N wall of the chancel, the N arcade of four bays, the tube font, and the capital reused as a piscina.
Parish church
Arreton is a small village in the central part of the Isle of Wight, about 3 miles SE of Newport. The church is situated to the S of the lateral chalk ridge, and adjoins the site of Arreton Manor. The structure consists of a chancel and an aisled nave, a W tower and a S porch. The nave and W two-thirds of the chancel N wall date to the 11thc or to the early 12thc, whilst the N arcade of the nave was built in the late 12thc and the S arcade was erected in the early 13thc. The masonry of the external walls of the N aisle can be dated to the early 13thc. The W tower was added in the late 13thc, and the S aisle external walls, the E third of chancel, and part of the chancel S arcade connecting with the contemporary S chapel can be referred to this phase. In the 15thc the tower was reinforced by the diagonal buttresses, and in the 16thc the S porch was added (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 73-5).
The Romanesque features of this site are the N arcade of the nave and a fragment of a dragon’s head attached to the E wall of the N aisle.
Parish church
Kencot is a village about five miles S of Burford. The church lies to the W of the village and must originally have been a two-cell structure. The chancel dates to the 13thc, although it was largely rebuilt in the 19thc, whilst the nave is basically Romanesque. There are two Romanesque doorways to the S and N sides of the nave; in the chancel, the pointed arch retains the original imposts.
Parish church
The north doorway of the nave is the only 12thc. survival. Most of the building dates from the 13thc. though its details were renewed in the 15thc. A short west tower was added in the 15th or 16thc.
Parish church
Hinton St George is a village in the South Somerset district of the county, 2 miles NW of Crewkerne and little more than 3 miles from the Dorset border. The village is clustered around a junction of minor roads, S of the line of the Fosse Way, with the church near the centre. It is constructed of Hamstone ashlar and similar material, and consists of a 2-bay chancel with chapels, a 3½-bay nave with a N transept, a 4-bay S aisle, a S porch and a W tower. It is substantially of the later 15thc, and the rector, Thomas Marsh, left £4 in 1494 for completing the tower. The chancel was rebuilt in the 19thc, and in 1814 the N transept was converted to a Poulett family pew, and the adjoining chapel was remodelled by Jeffrey Wyatt. There is no 12thc fabric here, but the font is Romanesque in origin.
Parish church
This essentially Perpendicular church has a chancel with a small vestry on the NE, a nave with S porch and S aisle, a N transept and W tower. It was restored in 1862-3 (Historic England listing:1305679). The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Redundant parish church
Edworth is a small hamlet near the Great North Road about 2 miles SSE of Biggleswade and adjacent to Hinxworth, just inside the Bedfordshire county border. The church of St George has a 13thc nave, 14thc aisles, chancel and west tower, and 15thc porches. The chancel was shortened in the 19thc but the church is otherwise unrestored. The church has been redundant since 1976 and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Unexpectedly perhaps for a Gothic building with no 12thc history at all, Romanesque material survives in the form of a re-set pillar piscina and two ex-situ capitals.
Parish church, formerly Benedictine house
Dunster is a large village in the district of West Somerset, 5 miles W of Watchet. The church is predominantly of the 15thc , and has a cruciform plan with a central tower and N and S transepts. The nave has aisles and a S porch, and the chancel has side chapels and dates from the 13thc when Reginald de Mohun established a Benedictine priory affiliated to Bath Abbey. The church is of red sandstone, and was restored by Street in 1875-77. Romanesque work survives in the W portal (which is largely by Street), and the W crossing piers.
Parish church
Brockworth has become an outer suburb of Gloucester; the cathedral is less than 4 miles away. The church itself and the adjacent Brockworth Court maintain their ancient composition, and are relatively isolated. The church has a chancel, a central tower, a nave with short S transept and a N aisle, and a S porch.
There are two arches supporting the tower on the E-W axis of the church, they are both splayed outwards. To the N and S sides of the tower, there are walls. The S transept is developed in the S wall of the nave, it is not related to the tower.
The church was restored in 1846--8 (Church Guide, 3).
Only the lower parts of the tower seen from inside, and the font, remain from the Romanesque church.