The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Thomas (medieval)
Parish church
Legsby is a small village in the West Lindsey district of L:incolnshire, 3 miles SE of Market Rasen and 13 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is in the village centre and has a W tower with a N vestry, nave, and chancel. The earliest parts of the building date from the 13thc, including the chancel and tower arches and there are signs of work done in the 16thc and the upper parts of the tower are 18thc. It is built of squared sandstone rubble, and there is a 12thc font.
Parish church
The hamlet of Thurlbear lies 3.75m SE of Taunton and is in the civil parish of Orchard Portman. The church of St Thomas is located in the centre of the settlement on a minor road. E of the church the land slopes down into the hollow of a hill. The church consists of a 15thc. W tower, nave with N and S aisles and S porch and a chancel. Perhaps unexpectedly, the core of the building is Romanesque, including N and S aisle arcades and a font. There is also an engaged column on the exterior of the chancel. The church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Parish church
Brompton is a village about two miles N of Northallerton, and is on the S side of Brompton Beck, a tributary of the River Wiske. The church occupies a central position in the village, adjacent to the village green. The building has 12thc origins and is of coursed squared stone and ashlars. The church comprises a continuous chancel and nave extended eastwards and westwards during the 14thc, with a N aisle, and a 15thc SW tower of three stages above the porch. Several hogback tombs, a cross shaft and other pieces of Anglo-Danish origin, of exceptional quality, have been conserved within the church. A comprehensive programme of restoration of the church was the begun in 1863. The surviving Romanesque element is the arcade in the N aisle.