The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Giles (medieval)
Parish church
A very small, rendered parish church composed of an unaisled nave with a timber bell-cote over the W end and a small square-ended chancel. There are traces of opposing N and S doorways in the nave walls although the church is now entered through a W doorway.
Parish church
The present church is essentially of late medieval date; there is no evidence for a church on the site before the 12th century. A Romanesque doorway survived as the N nave entrance until 1797/8 but is now known only from an engraving. Just one carved stone, a scallop capital, appears to have survived from the first church. Another stone, sculpted with a head and leaves, has been by some attributed to the 12th-century, but it is actually of later date. It was found in 1981 during excavations in the S choir aisle, in the foundations under the E wall. A head boss at the W end of the choir vault has also occasionally been mentioned, but again it is of later medieval date. Several changes to the church and various restorations were undertaken after the medieval period, culminating with a major re-organisation of the interior in the years 1872-83 and the addition of the Thistle Chapel in 1910-11.
Parish church
Farlow is a small village in the south of the county, 8 miles NE of Ludlow and about 14 miles W of Kidderminster in neighbouring Worcestershire. The present building was constructed in 1857-8 by Robert Griffiths in yellow sandstone but, according to Cranage (1901-12), the church at Farlow was originally a chapel of Stottesdon. It consists of a single-aisled structure with a N vestry and a S porch. The only Romanesque features are the reset 12thc S doorway and a plain font from the old church.
Parish church
Goxhill was once a village but is now reduced to a farmhouse and buildings. The medieval church was largely rebuilt in 1786, the tower in 1817, the church again rebuilt in 1840, and the tower both repaired in 1860 and more recently. It is ‘a plain late Georgian building with Gothick details’ (Pevsner & Neave 1995). It has nave, chancel and W tower.
There is a restored cylindrical font ‘half renewed’. There are no other Romanesque remains.
Parish church
The church has a chancel dating from the 13thc. and a 15thc. tower. However, its appearance is predominantly the result of a major restoration in 1863-4 by T.H. Wyatt. The font bowl dates from the 12thc.
Parish church
Great Easton is a village in the W of the county, in the wooded arable farmland on the N side of the A120 between Bishop’s Stortford and Braintree, and close to the B184 that links Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow. The village consists of scattered dwellings along a minor road, with the church more or less in the centre. It has an unaisled spacious 12thc nave with a S doorway under a porch, a blocked N doorway, and a short brick bell tower over the W bays. This was originally built as a bell-turret c.1800, and in 1928 the turret was replaced by the present structure by F. W. Chancellor. The lateral walls of the E half of the nave are much thicker than those of the W half. The chancel is of the 13thc, with a triplet window in the E wall. The nave is cement rendered and the chancel is flint faced. The S doorway is the only Romanesque feature recorded here.
Parish church
Newington lies about 4.5 miles N of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. The church, together with rectory and manor house form the centre of a group of four hamlets. The church consists of a nave, chancel, north transept, west tower with spire and south porch. The two nave doorways are 12thc, whilst the N transept of about 1200 has a pointed arch with two unchamfered orders. The western corners of the nave have quoins with characteristic Romanesque angle rolls.
Parish church
The limestone ashlar and rubble church has chancel, a central tower with N vestry, and nave with S aisle and S porch. The nave is 12thc. as is the tower (Pevsner suggests c.1125 for the tower arch), although its upper parts are neo-Norman. The chancel is 19thc. The S arcade was added in the first half of the 13thc. The S porch was probably 15thc. originally, but was rebuilt in the 19thc. It houses a 12thc. doorway and the reset porch doorway is of c.1175. Romanesque sculpture is found on the tower arch, S porch doorway, S doorway, font, and on a carving set in a niche in the W wall of the nave. The church was altered and restored in 1826 and 1851 by J. H. Hakewill. The chancel was rebuilt in 1888 by C. E. Ponting, an event commemorated on the dated consecration stone.
Parish church
The church is simple in plan: it has a continuous nave and chancel, with bellcote. There is no vestry or porch, and a N aisle and N chapel which once existed are gone. The guide (Shorer, after 1994, 1) suggests the N aisle had been taken down in the sixteenth century. In the early 1840s, the Rev Charles Carr rebuilt the W wall, providing the present W doorway and bellcote. The N arcade was exposed when the plaster was removed during a restoration under G. G. Scott in 1908.
Inside the church there is a cylindrical font and the remains of a late-twelfth century arcade, while outside are various reset stones probably from the original doorway; the bellcote does not include twelfth-century corbels as sometimes said.
Parish church
St Michael's has an early 12thc. nave with a 13thc. bell-cote on the W gable. A S aisle with a two-bay arcade was added at the end of the 12thc., and the nave was heightened and a clerestorey added in the 15thc. The chancel arch is a fine piece by the Castor workshop. To the S of the chancel is a large 13thc. chapel converted to house the organ, and vestry. Construction is of coursed irregular blocks of Barnack limestone. The chancel and S aisle were restored in 1865-68. In addition to the chancel arch the church has a set of 12thc. corbels set high in the S wall of the nave, a small doorway reset in the S aisle wall, and inside a recumbent lion, perhaps from an elaborate doorway.