The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Leonard (medieval)
Parish church
Built of lias rubble with dressings of Broadway stone ashlar. 15thc. W tower, ashlar-faced, with pinnacles. Nave, N and S aisles, N and S transepts. It stands on a low mound in the centre of the old part of the village. Sculpture ofc.1200 is found in the nave arcade capitals, and there is a plain font and a chip-carved stone set into a windowsill in the S transept.
Parish church
The original church was rebuilt between 1866 and 1876 to designs by T. H. Wyatt. The only Romanesque feature is the reused font bowl.
Parish church
The church dated from the 12th and 14thc. but was largely rebuilt in 1860. The only 12thc. carving is on the lintel of the blocked north doorway and an Agnus Dei inside above the south door.
Parish church
Built in faced sandstone rubble, the tower of sandstone ashlar. Nave with N and S aisles, chancel, N chapel and W tower. Restoration in 1885. The nave and W half of the chancel were built in the early part of the 12thc., the chancel being extended to its present length, and the nave aisles added in the 13thc. The only 12thc. sculpture is a relief set into the S wall inside, and the font.
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Bledington lies in a valley in the Cotswolds, four miles SE of Stow-on-the-Wold and six miles SW of Chipping Norton. The church is sited on a rise at the edge of the village. It is built mainly of limestone rubble, with roofs of lead and of Cotswold stone, and comprises a chancel with a Sanctus bell, a clerestoried nave, a S aisle, a S porch, and an embattled W tower occupying the W part of the 12thc nave. There is a squint passage (sometimes referred to as a chantry chapel) connecting the SW corner of the chancel to the S aisle. The church was lavishly rebuilt in the 15thc, and the 15thc painted glass surviving in some of the windows is a notable feature. The church was restored by John Edward Knight Cutts in 1881 and by Frank Ernest Howard around 1923. Romanesque sculpture survives on the chancel arch, the S arcade of the nave and the font.
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Flamstead is a large village in the Dacorum district of western Hertfordshire, 6 miles NW of St Albans and 4 miles S of Luton (Bedfordshire).The village clusters around a junction of minor roads near the junction of the A5 (following the line of Watling Street at this point) and the M1, and the church stands on the high street, in the centre of the village, surrounded by a spacious churchyard. It is constructed of flint with Totternhoe (clunch) facings and repairs in brick and tile. The oldest part of the church is the W tower, of the 1st quarter of the 12thc. This has the remains of paired round –headed openings at the top of the lower storey, best preserved on the E face but nowhere showing Romanesque sculptural work and not recorded here. The upper storey is a later heightening with a plain parapet and a great deal of brickwork repair. The tower arch is also 12thc, but was narrowed in the 13thc, and the nave has 6-bay aisles dating from the 13thc with elegant and varied stiff leaf in the arcade capitals. The highlight of the church is undoubtedly its wallpaintings; both figural and decorative and covering the period from the 13thc to the 19thc. The tower arch and a relief, possibly Romanesque, reset in the nave, are recorded here.
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Hatfield is a village in the NE of the county, 6 miles E of Leominster and less than a mile from the Worcestershire border. It is a long village, extending for a mile along a minor road to the N of the main A44 Leominster to Worcester road, with the church just beyond its western end. St Leonard's has a chancel with a plain tufa chancel arch, and aisless nave with blocked N and S doorways, a timber W bell turret with a pyramid roof, and a W gallery. The main W doorway to the church is protected by a timber porch. The nave may be 11thc, and was extended westwards by a bay in the 14thc. At this time the chancel was rebuilt. The S nave wall collapsed and was rebuilt in 1723. There were restorations in 1878 (chancel) and 1903 (the rest of the church, including the bell turret). The Norman font was replaced by an octagonal one oin the 19thc, but remains in the church, under the bell turret. The only other feature recorded here is the blocked N doorway.
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The church has a substantially 12thc. nave, Perpendicular chancel, 17thc. N tower (added 1631), and 19thc. S porch. The nave was lengthened to the west in 1891 and the S porch was added at this time. Romanesque sculpture is found on the arch of the N doorway; on the 12thc. material incorporated into the 19thc. S doorway; on a pillar piscina, the font, and on a number of reset fragments. A plain round-headed window survives in the N wall of the nave. Two small mortars are also held in the church. The most accomplished carving in the church is the late 12thc. font, which has ten panels depicting eight Virtues triumphing over eight Vices, as well as a Cherubim and a depiction of Ecclesia triumphing over the Evil One. The church was restored in 1865 by J. Hugall, when the 12thc. apse was excavated.
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The village of Drayton St Leonard lies about eight miles SE of Oxford on the right bank of the River Thames. The church, which was rededicated to St Leonard and St Catherine in 1988, consists of a chancel, a nave, and a N chapel, with a wooden S porch and a wooden belfry standing at the W end of the nave. The earliest part of the church is the nave featuring several 12thc features, including the S doorway and traces at the E end of the nave in both the N and S walls of windows that have been blocked. The church was restored by George Edmund Street in 1859 and a copy of his plan of the church is in Lambeth Palace Library.
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Probably built of sandstone, but now plastered within and without, and whitened. Aisleless nave and chancel of the 12thc., with a brick chapel ofc.1620 on the N side of the chancel and a S tower built of timber. Romanesque sculpture is found in the chancel arch.