The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Nicolas (medieval)
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel rebuilt in neo-Norman style in 1874; a S aisle to chancel built 1902; a nave, rebuilt c.1834; a S aisle to nave and S porch of 1902, and a N aisle of 1815.
The re-used nave S door and the font are all that survive of the 12thc church.
Parish church
Witham is a town in the Braintree district of E Essex, on the Roman road from Colchester, 13 miles to the NE, to Chelmsford, 8 miles SW. The old settlement is in the area of Chipping Hill, on the N side of the modern town, and it is here that the church is found. Most of Witham is taken up by the three large council estates that were built in the 1960s and ‘70s on the N, W and S sides of the old centre to accommodate families from London to move to as part of the Expanded Town overspill policy of that period.
The church is a large one consisting of a clerestoried nave with 4-bay aisles and a S porch, a chancel with a N vestry and a S chapel, and a W tower. The church is of the early 14thc, except for the 15thc chapel and late-14thc vestry and porch. The feature described here is the S doorway, which must have been incorporated from an earlier phase of the building. It is certainly 13thc but is included on account of the chevron ornament it contains.
Parish church
Tresmeer lies within the manor of Werrington, formerly in Devonshire, but is itself also connected with Launceston priory. The Norman church of St Nicholas consists of a nave and a chancel. Until the 19thc, the church had not been altered, except by the addition of a 15thc tower. At that point, due to dilapidation, a complete rebuilding was necessary and was carried out in 1880. Today, the only Romanesque feature is the font, dated to the first half of the 12thc.
Parish church
The village of Sydling St Nicholas lies approximately seven miles NW of Dorchester, in West Dorset. The 12thc church no longer survives; the font is all that exists from that time. The present building consists of a chancel, rebuilt in the mid 18thc, a 15thc nave and N porch, a S aisle of c. 1500, and a 15thc W tower.