The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St John the Baptist (medieval)
Hospital, former
The former Hospitium of St John stands to the north of St Laurence's Church, at the edge of the churchyard. The north aisle of the church formerly served as the hospital's chapel. The building is of flint and limestone rubble with ashlar facings, and several carved stones, presumably from the abbey, are incorporated into the rubble walls.
Hospital, former
High Wycombe is the second largest town in the traditional county (after Milton Keynes) with a population of 92,300 in 2001. It is a market town in the south of the county, 29 miles WNW of Charing Cross. The hospital stands on the old London road (A40), and comprises the ruins of the Infirmary Hall; an aisled hall originally of four bays running N-S. In 1767 it was reduced in length at the S end for the widening of the London road, and most of the other standing buildings were demolished. What remains is a roofless structure with the lower part of the outer N wall standing, and two bays of each arcade along with the third pier of the W arcade without its arches. The ruins were consolidated with brick supports in the late 19thc, and mortar repairs were made to the foundations in the 20thc.
Hospital, former
Wilton is a civil parish about 3 miles NW of Salisbury standing at confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder. Incorporated into the buildings around St John’s Square are the remains of a hospital founded in the late 12thc. Although several alterations and restorations were carried out from the 16thc, some remains of the medieval structures have survived. These includes a circular pier with what may be the remains of a scalloped capital.
Parish church
The nave of the church has four-bay, pointed arcades of the end of the 12th or early 13thc. In the late 13th or early 14thc. the chancel was rebuilt and a south chapel was added to it in 1861 by G.E. Street. The tower is Perpendicular in style. The church was restored in 1889-90 by C.E. Ponting.
Parish church
St John the Baptist in Stockton has a chancel with a date of 1840 on the exterior. The nave, however, has two-bay arcades dating from the 12th century, a 15th century clerestory and a 19th century roof. The nave arcades were extended eastwards in the 14th century and the nave was restored in 1879. The lower part of the west tower may also date from the 12th century. The choir was built in the late Middle Ages and in the 19th century. The font may also be 12th century.
Parish church
A cruciform, aisleless 13thc. church with a shallow N transept, W tower of c.1500 and N and S porches. A vestry abuts the N wall of the chancel. The chancel was extended c.1400. The church was restored in 1883-4 and the tower was restored in 1897, The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Parish church
St John the Baptist has a chancel that was built in the late 13th or early 14th century, although its fenestration mostly dates from the 19th century. The north transept and the north porch date from the first half of the 13th century. The nave was rebuilt in the late 14th century, the west wall of the west tower bearing the roofline of the earlier nave. The base of the central tower dates from c1200 and has chamfered pointed arches and trumpet scallop capitals. However, earlier than this are four fragments of Romanesque carving in the west and north walls of the nave.
Parish church
Hornton is in NE Oxfordshire, 3 miles NW of Banbury. The church was originally built in the late 12thc with ironstone rubble, and comprised a chancel, nave and a N aisle. It now has a largely 14thc exterior, resulting from the rebuilding and alterations of the next two centuries. The chancel was rebuilt twice in the 13thc and 14thc. The lengthening of the nave, the addition of a clerestorey, of a S aisle and a N chapel took place in the 14thc. The tower was added in the 15thc. The church went through a stage of chronic disrepair in the late 19thc and until 1916. Structural evidence of this is still visible on the S nave clerestory wall. The church interior is well known for its wall paintings, but it also has several remaining Romanesque features: corbels in the chancel, a transitional N nave arcade with round piers and scallop capitals, and a font with cable and intersecting arcading.
Parish church
St Mary's is an exceptionally complete Romanesque structure, consisting of an unaisled chancel and nave separated by a central tower. It might originally have had an apsidal E end, but at some time in the 13thc the chancel was extended to the E, so the original termination is gone. The W facade is of 3 storeys: an elaborate doorway flanked by blind arches, then a storey lit by a large oculus, and in the gable a triplet with a blind arch above. The nave also has lateral doorways; that on the S side justly celebrated for its decoration. The vaulting of the chancel and especially the shafts supporting it, as well as the two tower arches, are also enriched with sculpture. Elaborately decorated windows are found on the W facade, and on the lateral walls of the nave, tower and chancel. The font is 12thc., as is an abandoned bowl in the churchyard.
The nave roof was lowered in the 17thc, and a crenellated parapet was added. This reduced the height of the W gable, cutting off the outer 3rd-storey windows below capital level. In 1823 the gable was rebuilt by Robert Bliss, and in 1844 the roof was raised to its original pitch by R C Hussey. Thus the blind window at the apex of the gable and the frieze below it are entirely 19thc work. The large oculus in the centre of the 2nd storey of the facade was inserted by J C Buckler in 1856-57, replacing a Perpendicular window. He was assisted in his restoration by an outline of an original oculus in the masonry. Apart from the work on the W front there was a general restoration of the church in 1844. In the 1970s the top storey of the tower was refaced, involving replaing much of the carved and moulded stone. In the 1980s a shelter coat of limestone spray was applied to the exterior sculpture, and this was renewed in 2017 by Sally Strachey Ltd.
Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a N aisle of the 12thc. and a S aisle with clerestorey ofc.1300, and a 12thc. chancel. There is also a two-part crypt, rectangular under the chancel, and octagonal under the nave, both Romanesque. The fabric is of red Kenilworth-type sandstone, unless otherwise stated. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway, which was resetc.1350 and is now protected by a porch, in the windows of the chancel both inside and out; on the corbel tables and buttresses of the chancel; in the chancel arch and the N nave arcade, and in the crypt.