The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St James (medieval)
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Whixley is a village in the Harrogate district of Yorkshire, 10 miles W of York. Leach and Pevsner (2009, 753) describe the church of the Ascension as a building essentially of the period 1300-10. It has nave with aisles which embrace the W tower; S porch; chancel with N vestry. A plain round-headed window is the only Romanesque feature. There is also a plain octagonal font of unknown date.
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West Hanney is a village in the Vale of White Horse district of the county, 3 miles N of Wantage. Along with East Hanney it forms a settlement alongside the Roman road linking Oxford and Wantage, now the A338. The church is in the village centre and consists of a 12thc nave with a short tower on its N side, added in the later 12thc. The S transept dates from the 13thc, and in the 14thc the nave was lengthened westwards and a S arcade and aisle were added. The chancel was rebuilt in the 15thc. In the 19thc the church was restored, the nave was heightened and a clerstory added, and a S porch was built. Romanesque sculpture is found on the N nave doorway, the respond capitals of the arch linking the nave to the N tower, and the font. The church also has an impressive, but completely plain altar, illustrated here but not treated as a feature. It was described as being under the Jacobean communion table - i.e. the nave altar- by VCH (1924), 291-92.
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Shipton is a small rural parish in Corve Dale, approximately 6 miles SW of Much Wenlock. St James is a single-aisled church with a 16thc chancel (dated 1589), a 12thc nave, a late-16thc S porch, and a low tower with a timber-framed bell stage. The chancel arch and the font are of the 12thc.
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The church has chancel, nave with N aisle and arcade of three bays, S porch, and W tower. Although now mainly Perp., evidence of the earlier 12thc. church may be seen in the round-headed tall, narrow S doorway to the chancel (the exterior is later) and the S doorway to the nave. Romanesque sculpture is found on two reset fragments in the E wall of the N aisle, on the font and on the S doorway. There are pink sandstone quoins on the S nave angles and chancel angles which may indicate the angles of the 12thc. church. Similar stones are used on the porch angles. Other building materials include a shale-like stone, with granite frequently used in the later work.
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Hadleigh is a small town in the S of Essex that forms part of the conurbation that runs practically seamlessly from Southend-on-Sea in the E to Basildon in the W. Despite this it retains its own character, centred on the church of St James the Less that now occupies a large island in the A13. The church is substantially of the 12thc and consists of a chancel with an apsidal E end, the apse arch having been removed but the responds retained, while the 12thc chancel arch remains, flanked on the nave side by plain round arches. One plain 12thc window remains on the N chancel wall, while the apse has 3 segmental windows. The nave is tall with a W gallery housing the organ and 5 plain 12thc lancets remain in the side walls. The N and S nave doorways retain their round-headed rere arches, but the outer faces of both have been replaced. The S doorway is covered by a weatherboarded porch and the N by a large vestry, built in 1927 by Nicholson and now used as a kitchen and lavatory block. There is also a plain W doorway. There is no tower, but a 16thc weatherboarded bell turret with a slender broach spire is built over the W gable of the nave. The church is of rubble with clay tiled roofs. It was restored by G. E. Street in 1855-56.
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Nothing remains of the Romanesque church except the fine S doorway, one of the best in Cornwall.
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The village of Wick is located about 2.5 mi SE of St Brides Major in the Vale of Glamorgan and about 1.5 mi from the S Wales coast. The small church of St James stands near its centre. It is of a simple plan, consisting of a saddleback western tower, south porch, nave, separate chancel and vestry. In the churchyard, there is the stump of a cross on three steps. Two later round-headed squints flank the massive, twelfth-century chancel arch. Two steps lead up into the lower, square-ended chancel. There are a further two steps to the altar, which has a medieval mensa with what may be a simply incised central consecration cross.
The diocesan architect, John Prichard, carried out a thorough restoration of the church in 1871, when most of the walls and part of the tower were rebuilt. The south porch and vestry were constructed at this time. (Orrin (1988), 420; Orrin (2004), 191). Most of the windows in the church were replaced during the Victorian restoration, but a plain, Norman light survives in the south-west wall of the chancel. The nave is entered from the Victorian south porch, and, once inside, it is evident that the south door is set within a taller, unornamented, round-headed arch. A Romanesque tub font stands just within the south door. A doorway with a very pointed, almost triangular, head opens into the west tower.
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Tatham is a village in the Lancaster district in NE Lancashire. A small church, no division between nave and chancel except for an external buttressing feature on the S wall which may represent the original rood staircase. Essentially the church appears to be a late medieval rebuild around a late C12 S door and N arcade piers, with subsequent tidying-up and heavy Victorian re-medievalisation. The tower, according to an inscribed stone in the N wall, was rebuilt in 1722, but probably incorporates medieval fabric.
The only Romanesque features now are the S door and possibly the piers, capitals and W respond of the arcade.
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A nave and a long chancel in stone with, notably, the west tower, clerestory and aisles in 14th-15th-century brickwork. The church was made collegiate in 1347, which accounts for the length of the chancel; it has the effigy of Sir John de Sutton, the founder of the college (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 565). The church contains a late twelfth-century font and pillar piscina.
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South Stoke village is a mere 500m from the good roads which run across the downs south of Bath but is shielded from all the hustle and bustle by being just beneath the lip of the valley scarp. Geologically, the plateau N of the village is of Great Oolite Limestone, the valley to the S an area of landslip. The parish boundary follows Wansdyke to the N, Horsecombe Brook to the NE down to Midford Brook, Cam Brook to the Sand a side valley of the Cam Valley to the W. The church, on the SW edge of the small village along with the manor farm etc., lies at an altitude of 145m. It consists of a W tower, a nave, a N porch, a S aisle and a chancel; the N doorway is the only Romanesque remain.