
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

Holy Cross (now)
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Although the church has a good collection of Anglo-Saxon sculpture and some Norman fragments, none of the fabric appears to date from before the 13thc, which is essentially an E.E. chancel with many Perpendicular additions.
Parish church
The church is aisleless and comprises chancel with S vestry, nave with S porch, and W tower. The fabric is red stone and granite. The nave and chancel are 13thc., the S transept is 13thc. or 14thc. (Historic England listing: 1252173). The porch is 19thc. as is the vestry. Romanesque sculpture is found on the font.
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Gilling East is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, 2 miles south of Oswaldkirk. Holy Cross is a substantial church, consisting of nave, chancel and west tower, though much rebuilt during the 14th and 16th centuries. Surviving Norman parts are restricted to the nave arcades, which have cylindrical piers and square capitals.
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This is a small, 13thc. church, comprising an aisled nave with a bell-turret over the western bay, and a square-ended chancel. The only evidence for earlier fabric is the depressed chancel arch, but there is a plain tub font that may be Romanesque.
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Binstead is a small village of the Isle of Wight just W of Ryde. The church is located by the island’s NE coast where it forms the core of an older established settlement to the N of a suburban development. The area was formerly extensively used for the quarrying of building stone. The church consists of a nave, a N aisle, a chancel and a S porch. The chancel contains an abundance of herringbone fabric. The nave was rebuilt in 1845 and the N aisle was added in 1875. The S wall of the churchyard includes a round-headed Romanesque doorway which was formerly the N doorway of the nave (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 84-6). The lower courses of the S wall of the nave contain some herringbone fabric so it would appear that only the upper courses were rebuilt in the mid-19thc. The Romanesque features are the two pieces of sculpture reset above the nave west windows and the one piece reset in the gable end of the S porch, and the doorway with a figure above, reset in the S wall of the churchyard.
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Binsted is a village in NE Hampshire 2 miles NE of Alton. The village stands on the S bank of the river Wey valley, on a ridge of the upper greensand, and the church is constructed of the underlying rock, called malm stone, a mixture of chalky marl and chloritic (slilicaceous) grains like mica. This has something of the character of a freely workable limestone.
Holy Cross has an aisled and clerestoried nave with four-bay arcades dating from c.1180 (see Comments). It has a 14thc. S doorway under a porch that was rebuilt in 1863. The chancel is lower than the nave, allowing for the later piercing of high windows at the east end of the nave. To the north and south of the chancel are chapels separated from the main vessel by two-bay arcades of c.1200. The south, or Maiden chapel is connected to the nave aisle by a plain arch of c.1200, and projects only slightly from the line of the aisle wall. The north chapel, or Westcote chapel, projects much further. It was rebuilt as a chantry by Richard de la Bere of Westcote after 1331, and contains a crusader effigy with the inscription “Richard de Westcote gist ici deu de sa alme cit merci amen” presumably the monument of the father or grandfather of Richard de la Bere. This chapel now houses the organ and a choir vestry behind it. The chancel was extended eastwards in the 13thc., and there is a small 15c vestry to the east of the chapel on the north side. The west tower must date from the early 13thc., to judge from its plain arch. It is short, with a plain later parapet and a short spire behind it, roofed in slate. Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (d.1976) is buried in the churchyard.
The present appearance of the building owes much to the restoration of 1863. The south wall and porch were rebuilt with slate roofing and a gablet on the aisle, the chancel arch was replaced and the nave galleries removed, and the north wall of the Westcote chapel was rebuilt. As it now stands, the exterior except for the tower is rendered in white, and the roofs are of red tile, except on the spire, nave aisles and porch, where they are of slate. Romanesque features recorded here are the nave and chancel arcades, the tower arch and the arch into the Maiden chapel from the nave aisle.
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The church has nave, chancel, S aisle, S porch, crossing tower, N aisle and N transept. The N arcade of the nave survives from the 12thc. The crossing and N transepts are 13thc. and the chancel is 15thc. The tower dates to 1730. In 1876-77 the church was substantially restored by T. H. Wyatt. There are also 19thc. restorations by Ewan Christian. Romanesque sculpture is found on the N arcade capitals, on reused 12thc. corbels in the north transept and on a 12thc. figure, affectionately known as ‘Rattlebones’, which is set into the east side of the S porch.
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Holy Cross has an aisled nave with Perpendicular clerestoreys, the S aisle wider than the N. The N arcade is of c.1180-90 and the S of c.1300. Although the arcades are of equal length, the N is of three bays and the S of four, narrower and curtailed at the W. There is a broad, aisleless chancel of the late 13thc. with a curious timber-framed N vestry, dating from 1868-69. The W tower dates from the late 14thc. and had a spire up to the 19thc. Construction is of brown cobbles. The only 12thc. feature is the N nave arcade.
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Hoath is a small parish church in a rural setting about 7 miles NE of Canterbury on a gravel terrace. The exterior walls incorporate some reset bases and sections of roll moulding and chip carving. Although the nave may be 12thc, there is no other sculpture.
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Felsted is a substantial village in the Uttlesford district of central Essex. It is 11 miles E of Bishops Stortford and 6 miles W of Braintree; the centre grouped around a junction of the B1417. Despite its village status it boasts a large II* listed house of 1596 (Boote House), two public houses and the church described below.
The church stands at the crossroads in the centre of Felsted, and consists of a chancel with a S chapel and organ room, and a N vestry; an aisled nave with S porch and a W tower. To the N of the nave and connected to it by the N doorway is Smylie Hall built in 2014-15; a large church room complex. The church is 12thc in origin, with an early 12thc W tower, a late-12thc S aisle, and a 14thc N aisle and clerestorey. The chancel was rebuilt in the 14thc, and the porch added in the 15thc. The S chapel was built to house the tomb of Richard, 1st Baron Rich (d.1567) Lord Chancellor of England from 1547-51, and his son Robert. The church is of flint and rubble with brick and tile and stone dressings, except for the Rich chapel which is of clunch ashlar. Romanesque features described here are the S nave arcade, the tower arch, and the S and W doorways.