
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

All Hallows (now)
Parish church
The church sits on high ground above the Erewash canal. The 12thc fabric of the church includes the N and S doorways; late Romanesque jambs of the E and W central tower arches; a round-headed opening on the E nave wall above the tower arch, and the lower stage of the tower with lights N and S. The N doorway has a tympanum; the S doorway has a sculpted niche above.
Replicas of the head and foot of a wooden crucifix from the 12thc Rood (c. 1130) are displayed on the interior N wall of the tower. The original fragments are held by the British Museum.
A restoration in 1862 by J.P. St. Aubyn added the S aisle and reset the S doorway. The E tower arch is almost entirely 19thc.
Parish church
All Hallows has a tall, aisleless 11thc. nave with pilaster strips and a blocked S doorway with long-and-short
quoining. The W tower and chancel date from 1728 and
1870 respectively. The church contains a plain font and a loose Romanesque
capital.
Parish church
Largely Perpendicular in external appearance: nave, aisles, porch, tower but Decorated E window in S aisle, and Early English chancel; Victorian alterations, including Neo-Norman windows in N aisle. The church is built of local magnesian limestone. The SW and NW nave quoins of the earlier stone church can be seen where the Perpendicular aisles were added, and the nave seen from the S recalls the proportions of the nave at High Melton.
Romanesque work can be viewed only in the interior: there is a N arcade dated by Pevsner (1967, 253) to c.1200; the S arcade is very similar but has pointed arches.
Parish church
All Hallows is a large church of ironstone and grey ashlar with an aisled and clerestoreyed nave, a 14thc. chancel with Perpendicular N and S chapels (the N now housing the organ), and a W tower with a broach spire. The c.1300 nave arcades are of four bays and there is a small S chapel off the east bay of the S aisle. Both nave doorways are under 14tc. two-storey porches. The N chancel chapel has a three-bay
arcade towards the chancel, and there is a vestry to the E of it. The S chancel chapel is longer with a four-bay
arcade, and an altar at its E end. The tower is of c.1250-1300 with a W doorway of that time. Its upper section and spire are of grey ashlar; the lower section banded with ironstone.
Parish church
From the outside, All Hallows appears entirely 18thc. but for the W tower, the lower parts of which are 12thc.; the upper 13thc. with a battlement and a pyramid roof with a spike added on top. Inside, the nave arcade, of three bays, and the tower arch are 13thc. The first addition to the 13thc. church was the Isham chapel, on the N side of the chancel, added by Sir Justinian Isham in 1672 and built by Henry Jones of Walgrave. The rest was rebuilt following a bequest of Sir Justinian (d.1737) by the architect William Smith of Warwick. The work was completed by 1744. Since then a vestry has been added to the S of the chancel to the design of G. G. Bodley (1879). The only 12thc. work is the plain W doorway, a window above it, and a plain window in the second storey of the S tower wall. Only the W window is described; the other work being completely plain.
Parish church
The church comprises a W porch, nave, N and S aisles of 3 bays each, and a chancel with an organ chamber on the N side. In 1807 a tower was built on the S side of the chancel, and the N aisle was added. The S nave arcade dates from the late 12thc.
Parish church
William White rebuilt most of the church in 1869. Church is comprised of a W tower with 13thc. bell openings, a four-bay nave with N aisle, and a chancel; 18thc. doorway into nave. Reused Romanesque sculpture fragment in nave wall.
Parish church
Kea is a mile or so SW of Truro. The original Kea Church was located close the Truro River, a tributary off the River Fal, in a location that is now known as Old Kea. It was built in the 13th Century, with a tower added in the 15th Century, but was inconveniently located for many of the people living in the parish. In 1531 John Tregian, the Lord of the Manor, obtained a Royal licence to build a new church and cemetery in a more convenient location, but this was not acted on until after 1800. Permission was then granted to build a new church 2.5 miles to the west, in what is now called Kea, and to take down the original church. However, the tower was retained as a landmark, visible from Viscount Falmouth’s Tregothnan house.
The first replacement church was designed by James Wyatt, the renowned architect of Fonthill Abbey. The original Norman font was transferred to this building. However the church which has been described as ‘a very plain rectangular building’ was almost universally disliked. (Henderson described it as ‘hideous’, and according to the church guide it was ‘unsightly in the extreme’). Over time it developed structural faults, fell into disrepair, and was eventually demolished and replaced with a new building.
The current church at Kea was built in 1894, and was designed by G H Fellows Prynne. It is described in Pevsner as ‘the most attractive late C19th church in Cornwall (though very un-Cornish), beautifully situated in its sylvan landscape, the park of Killiow’. It is one of Fellows Prynne’s most successful church designs, in a strongly Arts and Crafts-influenced late Perpendicular style. The massing is straightforward with the nave roof swept over the aisles, and the south transept roof has a parallel ridge to the main roof. The porch is timber framed. The tower is in three stages with embattled parapets and a fine broach spire clad in copper. The walls are in cream Killas stone with granite dressings and prominent diagonal corner buttresses. The interior is generous and spacious; the original pews have been removed. The Romanesque font from the original Old Kea church was transferred once again into the latest church, and is located at the west end of the nave, immediately in front of the opening to the tower.