The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St James the Great (medieval)
Parish church
Bratton is a village about 2.5 miles E of Westbury and 25 miles NE of Salisbury. The church lies to the S of the village and is largely Perpendicular in date, although it possibly replaced an earlier building. The chancel was rebuilt in 1854 by George Gilbert Scott. The only 12thc carving is the font which has been over-restored.
Parish church, former
Friern Barnet was once a small, rural parish 7 miles N of London. It's original name of Little Barnet distinguished it from the larger part of Barnet which was in Hertfordshire. The name of Freren Barnet did not appear before 1294 and reflected the lordship of the Brotherhood of Knights Hospitaller.
The former parish church of St James stands on the main N-S road through the village, now surrounded by 20thc housing but retaining a large wooded churchyard. It consists of a chancel with a N vestry, nave with S aisle and porch and a tower with a shingled spire at the SW. This arrangement is the result of a major restoration and enlargement in by W. G and E. Habershon in 1853, which increased the number of pews from 200 to 500. The original Norman church was a simple one consisting of nave and chancel with a S porch and a wooden W tower. The Habershons kept the 12thc S doorway but it is heavily restored. The 1853 tower collapsed in 1930 and was rebuilt on the same plan. In 1977 an octagonal parish room was added on the N side of the nave, accessed from the church via the N nave doorway. The restored and reset S doorway is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
The church is rubble stone and ashlar with stone slate roofs and coped gables. The north and south doorways in the aisles date from the 12th century, indicating that the nave walls predate the 14th century when the arcades were created. The chancel was built in the 15th century and was extended eastwards in the 16th. The tower was added in 1630-2. The church was restored in 1904. The Romanesque elements are the reset and remodelled north and south doorways to the nave aisles, reusing 12th-century shafts and capitals.
Parish church
Ruscombe is a village in the Thames Valley to the east of Twyford, between Reading and Maidenhead. It is close to the A4, but not so close that its village character is lost; in fact it lies on the minor road linking Twyford to Windsor, the B3024. The church stands in the village centre, and comprises a 12thc. flint chancel, brick nave and W tower of 1638-39. The only Romanesque features are a pillar piscina and the recut font.
Parish church
Cardington is a small village in the Shropshire Hills, 3 miles E of Church Stretton and 10 miles S of Shrewsbury. The church is in the centre of the village, and consists of a 12thc nave and a chancel of c.1300 in one, with a 13thc W tower heightened in the 14thc. There is a S porch dated 1639, and the chancel was restored in 1863, followed by the rest of the building in 1867-69. The church is of sandstone rubble. The nave has two doorways to the N and S; those further W offering evidence that the nave was lengthened late in the 12thc. Of these both E doorways and the W doorway on the N side are blocked.
Parish church
Claydon, meaning clayey hill, is the most northerly parish in Oxfordshire, and the small ironstone church stands at its highest point. It consists of chancel, nave, N aisle and N chapel, and a low W tower with a saddleback roof. There is no division between nave and chancel. The original church had a 12thc. nave and N aisle. The chancel has been so altered that its original date is difficult to determine. Most changes took place in the 13thc. when a N chapel was also added to it. The Romanesque features are the S nave doorway, much restored, and the nave and N aisle, separated by an arcade of three bays. The capitals of the two short piers are decorated on the nave side only.