
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

St Denys (medieval)
Parish church
Built of grey, rubble masonry throughout, the church comprises a nave with S aisle and porch, a transept on the S side of the church, a tower on the N, and a chancel. There are Romanesque carved fragments set into the chancel walls both inside and out, and reset into a niche on the N side of the nave; the niche has an arched head composed of plain reset voussoirs and contains loose fragments.
Parish church
Stanford in the Vale is a large village in the Vale of the White Horse, 5 miles NW of Wantage. It has two village greens, Upper Green and Church Green, of which the latter is dominated by the low and broad mass of St Denys church. The only Romanesque sculpture surviving from the original aisleless church decorates the S doorway. The N doorway is of c.1300.
Parish church
Northmoor is a small village in south-west Oxfordshire close to Stanton Harcourt. The present church of St Denys is an almost unaltered small cruciform building of the early 14thc., with a 15thc. tower. Its only Romanesque feature is the tub font decorated with a single flowering stem.