St John (medieval)
Parish church
Low Crosby is a village on the river Eden, about 6km NE of Carlisle. Hadrian’s Wall runs through the northern part of the parish. The medieval church of St John was rebuilt in 1854, but little is known about the previous medieval building. Preserved inside the church is a Romanesque baptismal font. Low Crosby and High Crosby jointly form the historical parish of Crosby-on-Eden.
Parish church
St John's has a clerestoreyed nave with three-bay aisles, the N arcade with a short 12thc. W bay separated from the eastern part of the arcade by a short length of wall. The two E bays are also round-headed, with stiff-leaf capitals of c.1200. The S nave arcade is round-headed too, but the capitals and the aisle date from the restoration of 1842. The chancel has N and S chapels; the N, of two bays has an arcade of c.1300, and is now used for a crèche and vestry. The S of one bay, housing the organ, is 19thc. Both nave doorways are under porches, but the N porch has been extended eastwards and converted for use as a kitchen and lavatories. The W tower is 13thc. in its lower parts, with 14thc. bell-openings and added diagonal buttresses, and a quatrefoil frieze and embattled parapet added at the top. The only feature described below is the N nave arcade.
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St John's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with three-bay
arcades, the two E bays of the S arcade are13thc. with stiff-leaf capitals, the W bay is of c.1300. The N arcade is 19thc. The chancel has 14thc. sedilia and a N vestry. The W tower is 14thc. with a quatrefoil
frieze below the broach spire. The font is recorded here, although it is almost certainly 13thc.
Parish church
The church stands prominently on an outlier of the magnesian limestone escarpment, with the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle immediately to its west; this was the successor to the hall of Earl Edwin of Mercia (recorded in Domesday Book), and later the administrative centre for this large part of the Honour of Tickhill.
The chancel is essentially late twelfth-century, built of local Rotherham Red sandstone in its lower parts on the S side, and Magnesian limestone rubble elsewhere, though heightened later on. Slim pilaster buttresses, constructed of magnesian limestone, can be seen (partial on the N wall) and on the S chancel wall (to the W of the priest's door and at the SE corner), and others are found on the E wall (at each corner and below the Perp window).
The N arcade of the nave consists partly of re-used twelfth-century material; the imposts and arches are later. The nave, aisles and tower were built in Magnesian limestone ashlar in the late 14thc in early Perpendicular style. The tower and its spire (rising to 185 feet) is one of the finest in Yorkshire.
There are remnants of 12thc features in the walls of the chancel; the N arcade contains late 12thc material. The pre-Conquest tower doorway was filled by a later, twelfth-century, doorway which itself has been blocked.
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St Botolph's consisted originally of nave and chancel with a central tower, all of the early 12thc. Original
nave windows, now blocked, are visible on the N and S walls inside. To this
nave was added a 13thc. S aisle, two bays long, and
this was rebuilt by Carpenter and Ingelow in 1878 as a second nave with a
second, broad chancel to the E. The original nave
received a clerestorey of trefoil lights in spherical triangles, probably
c.1300. The central tower retains its narrow E and W arches, with
important carved capitals, but the space beneath it has been converted into a
vestry and organ loft, with the original
chancel serving as a small chapel. Inside this is
splendid wall arcading with naturalistic foliage
capitals of c.1300. When visited, the second nave and chancel to the S had been arranged for a concert, with the
stage in the chancel and auditorium occupying both the
original nave and the new one. The plain font may be 12thc. On the exterior,
some herringbone masonry is visible in the N walls of
the tower and chancel. Early 12thc. sculpture survives
on the N nave doorway, with its figural tympanum, and
the elaborate windows on the N wall of the tower, nave and chancel. The 12thc. tower itself is of three storeys,
undivided by string courses; the bell-openings are of the early 14thc., and the
parapet still later.
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Itchen Abbas is a small village in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, 4 miles NE of the city centre. The church is close to the River Itchen, which runs from E to W on the S side of the village. It was originally Norman but was rebuilt in 1867 in the Romanesque revival style, incorporating a doorway and the chancel arch from the Norman church. The architect was William Coles of Winchester, and he produced a Greek Cross plan with a short chancel attached and a double bell cote over the W gable of the nave. The 12thc. doorway was installed as the entrance to a small porch in the E wall of the N transept, and construction was of flint. In 2009 the church was re-ordered by local resident Nick Owen to provide a more flexible space. Owen added a new vestry on the N side of the nave, with kitchen and wc facilities. All the pews and choir stalls were taken out and replaced with chairs. The nave was carpeted, the N. gallery enlarged to give additional seating and better access for disabled people was provided.
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The church has a rectangular nave and chancel, with a bellcote of 1839 above the W gable. There are square traceried windows on the S side, and the E wall has been rebuilt, but otherwise the whole is substantially 12thc. The church is built in local sandstone and stands in a large churchyard overlooking suburban Leeds on one side and fields and woodland on the other.
Romanesque sculpture is concentrated in the S doorway, the corbel tables to N and S and on the chancel arch, but there are also decorated window heads and an unusual array of corbel-like heads on the W gable. The remains of a plain font are near the SW gate. The top of a pillar piscina, which had been re-set outside the chancel doorway, was stolen in 2002.
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St Giles is a small late 13thc. church, restored in 1876. It is most famous for the Roman figure of Aesculapius set in the south wall of the nave. The only 12thc. carving is the font.
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Adwick-upon-Dearne is a village in the Doncaster borough of South Yorkshire, near Mexborough. The church of St John the Baptist is a small building standing at the end of the village, consisting of chancel, nave and open bellcote, weathered. Romanesque features include the south doorway (which has an Early English porch), the original chancel arch, and some miscellaneous material. There is a modern vestry on the north side. All the exterior is coated with grey pebbledash and the building is roofed in blue slate. According to the church guide, the walls were built of limestone and sandstone, and the slate roof replaced thatched reeds in 1881. Borthwick Institute, York, holds consecration deeds 1822, Fac. 1881/5 and Fac. 1910/26.
Redundant parish church
12thc. nave, chancel and central tower. An elaborate N chapel was added to the chancel c1350, and the nave has a N aisle of c1450. Construction is of flint and pebble with brick repairs and some mortar render on the chancel. The S porch is of brick, and brick buttresses have been added to support the tower. The exterior N aisle wall includes 12thc. moulded fragments, none with sculpture. 12thc. features recorded here are the tower arches and the S doorway. The church has been disused since 1874 and was declared redundant in 1976.