The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Thomas a Becket (medieval)
Parish church
The village of Pylle is 4 miles SW of Shepton Mallet and 7 miles from Wells in the Mendips, Somerset. The line of the Roman Fosse Way, perpetuated by the A37, runs only 0.5 mile E of the village (and defines the E boundary of the parish except for a small salient further E). The church, manor house and farm rest on Lower Lias bedrock (specifically, the Langport Member known as ‘Blue Lias’), in a lush pastoral landscape. The church was rebuilt 1868 for the Portman family, except for the 15thc tower; it houses a Romanesque tub font.
Parish church
A stalwart church solidly holding its own on this windswept hill, St Thomas à Becket consists of a W tower, a nave with S aisle, and a chancel primarily of the 13thc; the S porch dates from the 16thc. The chancel arch, the S arcade of the nave, and a reused grave-marker in the piscina are Romanesque.
Parish church
The nave and its arcades date from the early 12th century and the chancel was rebuilt in the mid 13th century. The church was renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries, and it was restored in 1845-6 and in 1904. The Romanesque features are the north and south arcades, and the font.
Parish church
Tugby is a village in the Harborough district of E Leicestershire, 12 miles E of Leicester and 11 miles S of Melton Mowbray. The church is built of ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, and consists of a 4-stage tower, a nave with S aisle, S porch and clerestorey and a chancel with a S chapel. The tower is Romanesque in its entirety but includes work of two periods. The narrow W doorway and window above it belong to the original campaign, but the buttresses and associated stringcourse, the rendered top storey with its bell-openings and corbel table as well as a reset window in the S wall of the 2nd storey belong to a later modification. The S doorway is of the later 12thc and its porch was added in a Romanesque style in 1873, re-using some Romanesque material. The chancel chapel has a S doorway of the late 12thc reset in 1857-58 when the church was restored and the chancel largely rebuilt. This restoration also involved the rebuilding of the early 14thc nave arcade.