The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Holy Cross (now)
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Holy Cross has a nave with a three-bay N aisle, chancel, W tower and the remains of a chapel to the W of the tower. Construction is of stone rubble except for the chancel E wall (of ashlar). The nave is early 12thc. and retains its W doorway (now inside the 13thc. tower) and its chancel arch. The N aisle was also added in the 13thc., but its N wall was rebuilt in the 14thc. The chancel and the S nave wall were rebuilt c.1400, and at some later time the chancel was shortened and the E wall rebuilt. The remains at the W end indicate that a chapel was built here c. 1500. The date of its demolition is unknown. There was a restoration in 1889, and the S porch dates from this campaign. Of the early 12thc. work, only the W doorway and the chancel arch remain.
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The church consists of a chancel, a nave, N aisle, Perpendicular tower and a small S porch. The chancel arch of the church dates from around 1200, though it has undergone major repairs in recent years. Some of the earlier fabric survived the 19th-century fire and subsequent restoration.
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The church at Ashton Keynes consists of a nave, chancel, narrow N and S aisles, SE chapel, N and S porches, and a W tower. The nave clerestory and aisles and the W tower were built in the 14thc and the N and south porches were added in the 15thc. However, the church retains many 12thc and 13thc features. The chancel arch, raised and widened in the 1876-7 restoration, retains some stonework from the late 12thc. The W bays of the N nave arcade date from the late 12thc or early 13thc, and the E two bays were added in the first half of the 13thc. The S arcade was built around 1200. The font also dates from the late 12thc.
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Sarratt is a village in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire (i.e. in the SW of the county), 4 miles N of Rickmansworth and less than a mile from the River Chess which marks the Buckinghamshire border. The village stands on hogh ground extends over 1.5 miles from N to S, with Great Sarratt Hall in the north and the Sarratt Mill House in the south. The church, in Church End in the S stands in what must have been an assarted clearing. Patches of woodland remaining around the village tend to support this interpretation.
Holy Cross is a small church, 12thc in origin, whose plan was originally cruciform. It has a chancel that was extended in the 13thc and again in the 14thc. The church was restored in 1865-66 by Sir G. G. Scott, when the transepts were extended westwards by 1 bay so that the church now has 2-bay nave aisles, but the western bays are slightly narrower. Scott also added a vestry on the S side of the chancel, entered through a door in the S transept, and the S porch. The 2-storey W tower is of the 15thc in the lower part, and 16thc above. It has a saddleback roof. Construction is of flint with ashlar dressings, and liberal use of brick in the tower. Romanesque features described below are the chancel arch and transept arches and the font.
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The church has a W tower (rebuilt 1663), an Anglo-Saxon nave with 13thc.
N and S aisles (clerestorey over N arcade only), and a square-ended chancel with a 12thc. chancel arch.
There is a vestry at the E end of the N aisle. A plain
12thc. doorway in the N aisle must be reset.
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The church stands in the grounds of Ilam Hall; a building of 1821 erected by Jesse Watts-Russell. The present hall replaced a hall built for John Port in 1546, and it was Port's successor, also John Port, who sold up to Russell in 1809. This John Port's son, also John, became vicar of Ilam. Watts-Russell died in 1875 and the house passed to the Hanbury family, who sold it in 1927 to a restaurateur. When he went bankrupt, the house passed to a building contractor, who promptly demolished two-thirds of it. A view before the demolition may be seen in the William Salt Library (SV V 12). What was left was purchased in 1934 by Sir Robert McDougal, who gave it to the National Trust. It now houses a Youth Hostel, and a National Trust shop, and serves as a focus for walkers. Jesse Watts-Russell was also responsible for the curious appearance of Ilam village, which he rebuilt in a Swiss style on a slightly different (and steeper) site, because the surrounding countryside reminded him of the Alps. In the centre of the village is a small-scale copy of an Eleanor Cross that Watts-Russell erected in 1840 in memory of his wife.The church consists of a nave with a three-bay N aisle and N and S doorways, the latter under a porch, a chancel with N and S chapels and a N vestry, and a W tower. The earliest fabric is in the S wall of the nave, which contains a blocked 11thc doorway. There is also a stone carved with interlace re-set in the W wall of the S chapel, and there are two Anglo-Saxon crosses in the churchyard. The font is 12thc., and is described below. For the rest, the church is largely 19thc. in appearance, although some of the walls are medieval. The lower parts of the tower are 13thc., but its gabled top postdates a drawing of 1839 (William Salt Library SV 12 5a) that shows an embattled parapet. The S chapel is of 1618, but contains a 13thc. chest tomb, known locally as the Tomb of St Bertram, as well as the tomb of Robert Meverell (d.1626) and his wife. The most spectacular feature, however, is the enormous octagonal N chapel; a chapter-house-like mausoleum erected by Watts-Russell in 1831 in memory of his father-in-law, David Pike Watts who had died in 1816. It contains a large group showing David Pike Watts and his daughter and her three children by Sir Francis Chantrey. The church was restored in 1618, but its present appearance results from Sir George Gilbert Scott's restoration of 1855-56.
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The church consists of a simple nave and chancel, the chancel possibly 17thc. The nave windows and upper part of the tower are Georgian. The N doorway is Perpendicular. There is a reset plain window in the N wall of the tower that could be 12thc. (Pevsner) and two loose fragments in the nave bear Romanesque carving.
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Hoggeston is a small village in the rolling mixed farmland of the Vale of Aylesbury, in the Domesday hundred of Waddesdon, situated 7 miles N of Aylesbury in the heart of the county. The village forms a tight cluster on a lane to the E of the road from Aylesbury to Buckingham. The church is in the centre of the village, and Hoggeston Manor, an imposing red brick Jacobean house, is to the S.
The church consists of an aisled nave with a bell turret built over the W bay of the N aisle, and a chancel. The nave was originally shorter and aisleless, and dates from the 12thc. In the S nave wall is a blocked round-headed window, now partly removed by the piercing of a 2-bay 13thc arcade. The nave and S aisle were extended westwards by a third bay in the 14thc, and the aisle widened, and around the same time a regular 3-bay aisle was added on the N side with a N porch. Reticulated aisle windows on N and S suggest a date of 1320-30 for this work. There is no clerestory. The chancel was largely rebuilt at around the same time. The tower is of limestone in its lower storey and timber weatherboarding above. Otherwise construction is of roughly-shaped local limestone, which is banded with contrasting courses of orange Northamptonshire stone in the 14thc work. Two sections of frontal sawtooth stringcourse reused in the chancel masonry provide the only Romanesque sculpture here.
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The church, of coursed rubble with some granite, comprises chancel, nave with N aisle and a vestry at the end of this, S porch and W tower. The tower is late 15thc. and the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1837, although it may previously have been rebuilt in the 15thc. (Historic England listing: 1165844). It was restored in 1876. It origins however, are 12thc. and the two survivals from this period are the S doorway and the font.
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Aisleless and cruciform in plan with a chancel, N and S transepts, nave, N porch and central tower. The crossing is of 1193 (Pevsner) as is the N transept. The S transept and chancel are 13thc. (VCH) In 1874 and 1884, the nave was practically rebuilt and a modern "Romanesque" doorway was inserted in the S wall. The late 12thc. N doorway survives, although with restored tympanum. Three small, plain lancets also survive, one in the N and one in the S wall of the nave and the third in the W wall of the N transept.