The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Giles (medieval)
Parish church
Marston Montgomery is a small village in the SW of the county, in the Derbyshire Dales district, 6 miles S of Ashbourne and 13 miles W of Derby. The sandstone ashlar and rubble church is substantially 12thc throughout, and stands in the centre of the village. It consists of a nave with a W bellcote a N aisle and a S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. It was restored in 1824 and again by H St Aubyn in 1877. Romanesque features described here are The S nave doorway, S chancel doorway, chancel arch and the font.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave with S aisle and S porch, and W tower. The original 13thc. church comprised W tower, and nave and chancel in one. the S aisle was added in the 15thc. and the S porch is 19thc. The church was restored by J. D. Sedding in 1868 and by J. P. St Aubyn in 1878 (Pevsner 1989, 707; Historic England listing: 1333042) . The font is the only feature that could be 12thc.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, N and S porches and W tower with spire. The simple 12thc. church was enlarged in the 13thc. with a new chancel whilst the aisles were added in the 14thc. The 14thc. doorway is by the same hand as that at Hawton. The rood
screen dates from about 1475. The church was restored in the 19thc. when the clerestory was removed. The Romanesque features are the N and S porch doorways.
Parish church
The church of St Giles is a large cruciform building with a crossing tower. The tower is 12thc. in its lower parts and has crossing arches to E and W only. To the N and S are plain walls now; the arches were blocked after the upper part of the tower collapsed in 1613. Rebuilding was from 1616, and included the E bays of the N nave arcade and the clerestorey as well as the tower. The aisled and clerestoreyed nave has arcades of five bays, the three E bays originally 14thc. (and still 14thc. on the S), the two western ones added in 1853-55, when the 12thc. W doorway was reset. The nave aisles extend E alongside the tower, replacing the 12thc. transepts. On the N side of the nave an extra aisle, a bay shorter than the main aisles, was added in the 19thc. The present chapel contains 13thc. lancets in the N and S walls, and is offset slightly to the N from the line of the nave and crossing. It has N and S chapels, both 14thc. The 1853-55 work is by E. F. Law, following a report of 1840 by G. G. Scott. The N transept now contains lavatories and a crèche. Romanesque work is found in the two arches of the crossing and the reset W doorway. The crossing arches were unblocked in 1853-55 and rebuilt on the basis of the remains of the E arch, but the present author has identified no 12thc. work in either arch. They are described below on the assumption that they are a fair copy of at least part of what was there before.
Parish church
Matlock is a town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, and since Derby became a Unitary Authority in its own right has taken on the role of county town. The church is on the S side of Matlock town, and is of the local gritstone. It has an aisled nave with a S porch, a chancel with S chapel and a W tower. The tower is the only medieval part of the fabric, dating from the 15thc. The chancel was built in 1859, the nave in 1871 by B. Wilson, and the S aisle and chapel in 1897 by Currey. The church contains an octagonal font, a fragment of a capital and two free standing responds.
Parish church
St Giles comprises a chancel with a S chapel, aisled nave, W tower and S porch. The 12thc church presumably consisted of nave and chancel, of which a portion of the nave walls survives above the 13thc arcade. Later in the 12thc at least the base of the existing W tower was built, and later again, clerestory windows were inserted into at least the N side of the nave, which must have by that time have had aisles. Early in the 13thc the nave, aisles and arcades were rebuilt, as well as the upper parts of the tower and the twin bell openings. The S chapel was added mid-13thc, and later in the 13thc the chancel itself was rebuilt.
The Romanesque features remaining are the blocked remains of two small round-headed clerestory window arches, visible over the N nave arcades. In the chancel S wall is an arched recess holding a 13thc sedilia that re-uses a pair of short Romanesque shafts with cushion capitals, one at each end.
Parish church
The church consists of W tower, nave and chancel, the latter two rebuilt in 1819 in Georgian style, but the original doorway was saved and inserted as S doorway of the nave. The W tower includes a S doorway with a lintel made from an Anglo-Saxon carved cross or gravestone, the most important pre-Conquest sculpture in the region. This is not described here, but photographs are included.
Parish church
Uley is a village in the Stroud district of central Gloucestershire, 5 miles SW of Stroud. It is a long village in the valley of the River Ewelme, and an important centre for cloth production until the 19thc. The church stands towards the E end of the village, and was rebuilt in 1857-58 by S. S. Teulon. It consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch and a tower midway along the nave on the N side.
The old church was the subject of articles in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, and two sketches published there are reproduced here. The only Romanesque feature here is an old font bowl that was discarded in 1858 in favour of a new one, still in use. The old bowl remained in the church.
Parish church
A small chapel consisting of a nave and chancel with W bellcote and S porch. Largely Romanesque
fabric though now rendered. W window of 14thc., chancel
windows of 13thc. According to Pevsner, the S aisle was removed before 1748. The S
porch was renewed in about 1958. Formerly in the parish of
Edwinstowe; now linked with Worksop Priory.
Parish church
Chalfont St Giles is a small town in S Buckinghamshire, 3 miles S of Amersham. Its position on the Metropolitan line makes it a popular residential town for the wealthier commuter, but it has retained a village character, especially in the High Street around the parish church. St Giles’s church is built of knapped flint, and consists of a chancel with a N vestry; a nave with a timber S porch, clerestories, and N and S aisles with 3-bay arcades; and a W tower. At the W end of the S nave arcade is a short and narrow extra bay. The nave arcades and chancel arch are 14thc work, while the chancel is of the 13thc, remodelled in the 14thc. The tower dates from the 14thc. and the vestry was built when the church was restored in 1861-63. The only 12thc feature is a Purbeck marble table font.