The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Angels (now)
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Lambourn is a large village (with a population of around 3,000) in west Berkshire, two miles from the Wiltshire border. The river Lambourn rises here, and runs SE through the village. Lambourn is in the heart of the chalk downs of Berkshire and is famous for its association with horse racing. There are more than 50 racing yards in the Lambourn valley, with more than 2,000 horses in training. The church, surrounded by its spacious churchyard, stands in the centre of the village. It is a cruciform building with an aisled and clerestoried nave, crossing tower, transepts and a chancel with one N and two S chapels. Of this the nave, aisles and crossing arches are all late-12thc, the N transept (now housing the organ) is 13thc and the S transept 14thc. The inner chapels are both 14thc in origin, and the outer S chapel, with its battlements and elaborate pinnacles, is 15thc. The chancel, with its spectacular E window, is largely Perpendicular in style. The tower is largely 15thc, while the W front was originally a fine 12thc composition divided into four storeys by stringcourses, with large round-headed windows above the central doorway, an oculus in the gable, and plain round headed windows in the W aisle walls, but a three-light reticulated window introduced in the 14thc has rather disrupted the design. The church was repaired and reseated by T. L. Donaldson in 1849-50, and repairs were carried out by L.E. King of London in 1949-51. Features recorded here are the W doorway and oculus, the nave arcades, the crossing arches and a pillar piscina used as a stoup in the N aisle.
St Michael, Lambourn, groundplan by T. L. Domaldson, 1850. Image courtesy of Church Plans Online <http://www.churchplansonline.org> (Published by the NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium)
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Letcombe Bassett is a small village, much smaller than its neighbour Letcombe Regis, overlooked by the Ridgeway that runs half a mile to the S. The church is on the southern edge of the village, and consists of 12thc. nave and chancel and a 13thc. W tower. There is a two-bay S nave aisle by Butterfield added in 1862 when the church was restored, and the chancel has a modern S vestry. Good quality early 12thc. sculpture is found on the N chancel doorway and the chancel arch.
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This 13thc. church has a W tower, a fairly broad single-cell nave with a
S porch, and a chancel entered
through a triangular-headed arch, lying within a larger pointed arch.
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St Michael’s, Orchard Park Road, North Hull, is a modern church - ‘the best post-war church in Hull’, Pevsner & Neave 1995, p. 513. It uses the old font from St Martin’s, Wharram Percy.
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Hughenden is the old name of the village now called Hughenden Valley, and is retained by the manor house remodelled by E B Lamb for the Disraelis in 1862 and now owned by the National Trust. The church and manor house stand in an extensive park a mile to the S of the modern village, on the N edge of High Wycombe in the S of the county. St Michael's has a long chancel with a N chapel containing an organ and 16thc fakes of medieval tomb effigies. The nave has a S porch and a N aisle with a tower at its W end. The church is 14thc in origin but was almost entirely rebuilt by Sir A W Blomfield in 1875. The only Romanesque feature is the font
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Built in 1890, this church is faced in flint outside and red brick
inside. It has a W tower, a single nave and a square chancel. The font appears to be its oldest feature.
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Chaffcombe is a village in the district of South Somerset, 1.7 miles E of Chard and 3 miles N of the Dorset border. The village straggles along a minor road that runs N of the main road from Chard to Crewkerne, and the church is just off the village street at the end of a lane at its E end. The tower is partly 15thc and the remainder a rebuilding by J.M Allen of 1857-1860. Construction is of local lias and Hamstone ashlar and near-ashlar, except for the chancel and north aisle, in rubblework with ashlar dressings. The church has a 4-cell plan of 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave and N aisle, with north-east organ chamber, south porch and west tower. The only Romanesque sculpture is the plain font.
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The church is a simple two-cell building of local sandstone. The RCHME calls it 12thc., Taylor and Taylor 'Saxo-Norman, but probably post-Conquest', and Pevsner 'Early Norman'. This last view seems most appropriate. Four round-headed and deeply splayed windows are part of this early church: one is in the N wall of the chancel, two in the N wall of the nave and one (now blocked) in the S wall of the nave. There are also three original doorways and a chancel arch. The most outstanding feature, however, is the font described by Pevsner as, 'one of the masterworks of Romanesque sculpture in England. It would arrest attention in any country.'
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St Michael's is a large church, mainly Perpendicular, with a W tower of c.1500 over the end of the N nave aisle, and an aisled, clerestoreyed nave of four Perpendicular bays with a fifth narrow bay of late 12thc. date at the E end of each arcade. The aisles continue alongside the chancel, providing an organ loft and vestry on the N side, and a spacious chapel on the S. The chancel aisles are divided from the main vessel by two-bay arcades, that on the N of the 13thc. The S aisle is canted at the E and W ends. The exterior is faced with red sandstone, but its appearance owes much to the intrusive restoration of 1857-60 by Joseph Clarke. 12thc. work is found in the narrow E bays of the nave arcades and a loose chevron voussoir.
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The church stands on a mound near the south bank of the Wye, in parkland belonging to the Moccas Court estate. It is a three-celled, aisleless apsidal building. The walls are of calcareous tufa with some grey and red sandstone dressings. The church is a well-preserved and complete building of one date, with only a few later additions. The principal sculptural enrichments are the two doorways of the nave, in situ.