The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St John the Baptist (medieval)
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The nave of the church has 4 bays of early 13th-century N arcade with double chamfered round arches. It has circular piers with octagonal, chamfered imposts, and capitals decorated with trumpet scallops with stiff-leaf foliage. However, the tall form of the arcades suggests that a dramatic transformation took place in the 15th or 16th century. Buckler illustrated these arcades in the early 19th century (Vol. VIII, plate 59). In c1300 the west tower was added. The only 12th century fabric surviving is a font bowl.
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A small church of nave and chancel situated close to a bridge over the river Derwent, which is the boundary of the East Riding with the North Riding. The building dates from the 1862-4 restoration, the nave is by Tuke of Bradford and the chancel by J. C. Teal of Malton to a design by Butterfield (Atkinson 1994, 26); there are no plans at the Borthwick Institute. Windows in the nave are in some cases round-headed but have been refaced or even more radically embellished. A variety of stone types have been used.
The nave S doorway is said to contain 12thc. work; there is a circular font with moulded profile; various less distinctive parts may be re-used.
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Aisled Victorian church with a 12thc W tower and a 12thc font in S transept close to chancel.
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Little Marlow is a village in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames which forms the boundary between Buckinghamshire and the Unitary Authority of Windsor and Maidenhead at this point. The nearest large towns are High Wycombe, 3 miles NW, and Maidenhead, 4 miles S. The church stands at the S end of the village, alongside the manor. It consists of a chancel with a S chapel, a nave with N and S aisles and a N porch, and a W tower. Alongside the tower are modern N and S vestries. Construction is of flint rubble with clunch quoins and brick repairs, except for the N porch, which is timber framed on an old brick base, and the vestries which are timber framed on modern brick bases. The church is 12thc in origin, as shown by the chancel arch and the arch to the S chancel chapel. The chancel was rebuilt in the 13thc, the N nave aisle and the W tower are 14thc, and the S aisle dates to the 15thc, at which time the S chapel was also rebuilt. The N porch is 16thc work, restored in 1902. The chancel and S chapel arch and the font, all plain, are recorded here.
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Harescombe is a cluster of farms at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment about five miles south of Gloucester. The church is small, with chancel and N vestry, nave and S porch. Verey & Brooks say it is a 13th-century church, citing the mostly trefoil-headed lancets (Verey & Brooks 2002). There was a restoration by Francis Niblett in 1871.
The Romanesque remains are the blocked round-headed N doorway and a font, 'exceptionally beautiful in its simplicity' (Verey, 1976, 268).
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The church mostly dates from the early 14thc., and is unusually wide, with no arcades. The single sedile with a low, crocketed gable in the chancel is an interesting well-preserved feature of this build. In 1874 the church was restored by Ewan Christian, when the walls were largely rebuilt and the roof and most of the windows were replaced. The only feature which could be said to date from the Romanesque period is the font.
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Easingwold is a small town about 12 miles N of York. The church is situated to the N of the town and has Norman origins: it possibly consisted of a chancel, rebuilt in the 14thc, and a nave with N aisle. Due its decay, the structure was largely altered and rebuilt at the beginning of the 15thc; it now consists of a chancel and nave, N and S aisles, N vestry, W tower, S porch, added in the 19thc. The only 12thc sculptural feature is the reset doorway in the N wall of the nave.
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The exterior of the building is largely 15thc, as some significant rebuilding and re-modelling of the church appears to have happened then, and the buttresses would have been added to the nave and chancel. The upper part of the tower would also date from this period but the lower story may be the original 12thc structure. The porch dates from 1634 (see date stone). Some further alterations/additions were made towards the end of the 18thc. Norman elements include a doorway in the S wall of the nave, the imposts of the chancel arch and, possibly, some small windows.
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The church comprises a W tower, a nave jointly roofed with an early
13thc. N aisle (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a twin nave), a transept
and a square chancel.
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Fawley chapel is in the parish of Brockhampton, in the Wye valley, 3 miles N of Ross-on-Wye. It is situated at the end of a lane, alongside a farm on the N bank of the River Wye, and is a two-celled building with a barrel-vaulted chancel. Construction is of sandstone rubble with a rough ashlar facing to the S wall of the nave. The earliest parts are 12thc, it was widened to the S and lengthened westwards, probably in the 14thc and further work dates from the 16thc and 17thc, when a W bell chamber and double bell-opening was added. The chancel was rebuilt in 1827. Romanesque features recorded here are the triple-arched chancel arch, the blocked N doorway and the font.