The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Saints (now)
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The church consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch and W tower. The Romanesque elements recorded here are the S doorway, portions of the tower and possibly the font. The Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project notes an interesting fragment of a tomb effigy in the vestry, which we hope to record later.
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Rampton is a village in the Bassetlaw district of NE Nottinghamshire, close to the River Trent which forms the Lincolnshire border and 6 miles E of Retford. The church consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch and W tower. The W tower and nave are 14thc., and the S porch and windows in the tower and the chancel are Perpendicular. The N nave arcade is c.1300 whilst the S arcade is 15thc. The church was renovated and the chancel restored in 1894. The only Romanesque element is the font.
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Nunney lies 3 miles W of Frome, Somerset. The ‘island of nuns’, in a pleasant shallow valley at the E end of the Mendips, lies to the SE of several local limestone quarries. A Cistercian nunnery was established in 1162. There is a 14thc castle and other evidence of previous importance. The church of All Saints (formerly St Peter) is built of coursed and squared Doulting rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a cruciform plan with a W tower, aisled nave, S porch and chancel. The Romanesque elements comprise the tub font and a possible sculpture of uncertain date in the N arcade.
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The parish of Otterhampton lies on the Parrett estuary 5 miles NW of Bridgwater, in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset. The church of All Saints (formerly Sts. Peter and Paul), is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It is built of rubble and comprises a W tower, nave, chancel with N vestry, and a S porch. The church is mostly of the 14th-15thc with 19thc modifications. The nave probably has 12thc origins although no original features survive except perhaps the rear arch of the S doorway (plain chamfered - not included here). The font is Romanesque.
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Preston Bagot is a small, dispersed village in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, 6 miles W of Warwick. The church is on the N side of the settlement and is built of grey limestone rubble. It consists of a nave with a W bell turret and S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. The nave and chancel are largely 12thc, but the church was restored by J. A. Chatwin who lengthened the chancel, added the chancel arch, heightened the walls and added the timber bell-turret in 1878-79. The N nave wall retains its doorway and 3 plain lancets, all of the 12thc. The S doorway is also recorded here.
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West Markham,or Markham Clinton is a village in the Bassetlaw district of the county, 10 miles SE of Worksop. The church is to the N of the village centre. It is built of a mixture of red brick, coursed rubble, ashlar, render and some timber framing, and consists of an aisleless nave and chancel, with a W bell turret.
Portions of the fabric of the church are 11thc and 12thc, and there is a portion of exposed herringbone masonry in the S wall of the nave. The windows are of 14th century and later date. An extensive restoration was carried out 1930-45. The Romanesque features are the 2 S doorways and the font together with two loose pieces of sculpture.
To the S of the church is the Milton Mausoleum,
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Selworthy lies 3 miles from Minehead, on the northern fringes of Exmoor, Somerset. It was rebuilt as a model village in 1828 by Sir Thomas Acland. The village and the surrounding Holnicote estate was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Acland. The church of All Saints, which is built of whitewashed roughcast-rendered rubble with Hamstone dressings, is described by the official Historic England listing text as 'one of the finest churches in the county'. It consists of a W tower, nave with N and S aisles, chancel and S porch. The Romanesque elements consist of a font and a piece of loose sculpture.
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The ancient parts of Langport [probably the etymology of its name is ‘long (market) town’] surround All Saints church on an originally fortified hilltop, stretch W below the hill along a causeway leading to the crossing of the major Somerset river, the Parrett. From late Saxon times the river was a major communication link enabling Langport to be a very important trading hub. It is still noticeably commercial although no longer holding the importance it had before the growth of other Somerset towns based on road and rail developments. Nowadays the principal communications are along the road more or less keeping to the high ground afforded by the Blue Lias ridge and running from Taunton in the W to Somerton and that road’s offshoot E of Langport running along the foot of the S scarp of the Blue Lias ridge and leading to the A303 London road.
To simplify geology and topography, at Langport the River Parrett cuts through the well-known WSW/ENE outcrop of the Limestone variety known as Blue Lias. The current geological description of the surface geology of the hill on which All Saints church perches categorises the stone as belonging to the Triassic type: ‘Westbury Formation & Cotham Member Mudstone & Limestone’. The church itself rests on ‘Langport Member, Blue Lias Formation & Charmouth Mudstone’.
Although the church mainly dates from the 15thc and 16thc, it houses a resited Romanesque lintel.
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Wingerworth is a large village in the North East Derbyshire district of the county, 3 mles SW of Chesterfield. The church stands in the village centre and until 1963-64 consisted of a nave with a 12thc N arcade, a chancel with 13thc lancets and a 15thc W tower. It was restored in 1903-05. In 1963-64 an extension was added to the N in the form of a new nave with an an altar and chancel at the N end, occupying the full width of the original nave and divided into 5 bays by concrete arches. The architect was Bernard Widdows of Naylor, Sale and Widdows. This spectacular enlargement was necessitated by the growth in the size of the village in the early 1960s. The original nave thus became a narthex and the chancel was repurposed as a lady chapel. 12thc features recorded here are the S doorway, the plain chancel arch, the N arcade and the font.
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Burmarsh is a village in the Romney marsh area of Kent, 3 miles W of Hythe. The church of All Saints is a twin-cell building with a 13thc W tower, short nave, S porch, and a small chancel. For the most part it presents a later medieval appearance, and the interior owes much to the last century or so. The sole surviving Romanesque sculpture is on the S doorway, although the chancel clearly has early origins.