The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
All Saints (now)
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Walesby is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, in the West Lindsey district. It is 2½ miles NE of Market Rasen, and 18 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is serenely set atop the wolds, in open countryside a quarter of a mile east of the village centre. Access is by mens of a track from the village, and by 1930 the church had fallen into disrepar. A new parish church, dedicated to St Mary, was built in 1914, but All Saints was restored and is now maintained by the Friends of the Old Church, a trust founded in 1980. It is popular among walkers, and is known as the Ramblers' Church. It has a 13thc. W tower and chancel; the N arcade is 12thc, the side aisles of the nave are of c.1300 and the clerestory is Perpendicular. It was restored in 1931.
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Thornton-le-Moor is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire 16 miles N of Lincoln and 12 miles SE of Scunthorpe, on the western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The church is a small ironstone rubble building at the western end of the village. It is primarily 13thc. and consists of a nave with clerestory, chancel and S porch. There was also a N aisle as demonstrated by the 13thc. columns and arches in the N wall of the nave. The chancel was rebuilt and the S porch added in 1871 restoration. But there are earlier traces of an 11thc. blocked doorway to the E of the S doorway and Romanesque elements consist of an exterior corbel-table at the SW end of the nave wall, a S doorway, and some reset corbels in the nave walls inside.
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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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Wragby is a small town in the East Lindsey district of the county, 10 miles NW of Horncatle and 11 miles NE of Lincoln. The present church was built in 1838, by W. A. Nicholson close to the centre of town, and he built a large, yellow brick church with a W tower, a wide nave and a short chancel. The former church, sited 0.5km to the SE was demolished in 1836, but its site has been marked out on the ground by members of the Wragby Heritage Group. The current building contains artefacts from the old church, including a Romanesque pillar piscina, which was dug up in a garden in Wragby.
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West Rasen is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 3 miles W of Market Rasen. The church is primarily a 13thc. building with a W tower, nave with clerestory windows, S aisle and porch, and chancel. It was restored in 1829-30 by E.J. Willson. Further restoration including a new nave roof was undertaken in 1870. Originally, there was a Romanesque N aisle to the church, the remains of which can be seen embedded in the N wall of the present nave.
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Friskney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 12 miles NE of Boston and just over 3 miles NW of the coast. The church stands at the N end of the village centre. It is primarily a Perpendicular church with W tower, nave with five-bay side aisles, clerestory, and a long chancel. The tower is Norman in its lowest parts, the next stages are 13thc and the remainder is Perp. The tower staircase doorway is 12thc as are the N doorway of the nave, fragments of an arch re-used as a base in the churchyard, and a fragment of a grave-cover in the churchyard wall. The aisles were rebuilt by Butterfield in 1879.
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Tealby is a picturesque village in the western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, 3 miles E of Market Rasen and 15 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is built mainly of ironstone rubble and stands at the E end of the village centre. It consists of a 12thc W tower with a 15thc top storey, a 14thc nave with four-bay N and S arcades and and a S porch, and a long chancel. The church was restored by James Fowler in 1871-2, the tower was restored in 1884, and the chancel roof in 1891. The lower part of the W tower has a Romanesque W doorway, a small W window, and a tower arch into nave. In the W wall of the nave, above and to the N of the tower arch, is a plain, round-headed opening, presumably a doorway. This is completely plain and is not recorded here although it appears in a photograph.
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North Scarle is a village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 8 miles W of Lincoln and 2 miles E of the River Trent, which forms the boundary with Nottinghamshire. The church stands on the western edge of the village and is primarily a 13thc. building consisting of W tower with 14thc. top, four bay nave with N and S aisles, and a chancel with N and S chapels. The N aisle added 1895-8 by Sir Ninian Comper. Construction is of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. There is a loose 12thc. foliate capital in the N aisle, and this is the only Romanesque feature.
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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.