The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Holy Trinity (now)
Parish church
Located at the southern edge of the village at a crossroads on what was once the A11, now the B1383. The road from here between Littlebury and Audley End to the south was new in 1811, the original link being further west. The church comprises chancel, nave with aisles of three bays each, north and south porches and a west tower. The oldest part of the church is the nave, which dates from the 11thc-12thc. Aisles were added in the 13thc and a W tower in the 14thc.The building was radically reworked in two phases during the nineteenth century (1847 & 1856-58). Previously there had been major reconstruction in the late C15 and early C16 (L. Sanders and G. Williamson, 36). Construction is of lint rubble with detailing in clunch. Romanesque features described here are the south nave doorway and the font.
Parish church
Little Ouseburn is 6 miles SE of Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. The parish church, isolated from its village by a meadow, stands attractively in an angle of the road among trees. The church has nave, aisles and chancel, and an unbuttressed tower, the bulk of which is generally thought to be early post-Conquest; it is built of a mixture of sandstone and limestone. Re-used Roman stones in the tower are evident by their large size and the Lewis holes. The church has several reset pieces of sculpture which are included in the pre-Conquest corpus (Coatsworth 2008). They are therefore not discussed here in detail, but are shown in the Site Images for reference. Church restored 1875. Apart from arrowslit windows in chancel and tower, only the jambs of the chancel arch are certainly of the Romanesque period.
Parish church
Bowerchalke is a small village 9 miles SW of Salisbury. The church dates from the 13thc to 15thc. The only Romanesque survival is the bowl of the font.
Parish church
Bottisham is a village on the N side of the A14, Cambridge to Newmarket road, midway between the two. The church stands alongside the village High Street, and is a very tall and imposing building, largely built of clunch and limestone with some flint in the W porch. It consists of a chancel; an aisled nave with clerestories and N and S porches, the N now used as a vestry; a W tower and a tall W porch with a giant-order arch facing the High Street. The chancel and the lower parts of the tower and the W porch are 13thc, and the remainder belong to an extensive early-14thc rebuilding. The nave has a wooden W gallery. The main restoration was by Charles Papworth in 1839-40; the W tower and porch were restored in 1849-50; the chancel refurbished in 1867 and its E wall rebuilt in 1875, and the S porch was repaired in 1870.
The E ends of both nave aisles have been screened off to form chapels, and in the N chapel, below the touching memorial to two infants of the Alington family, are a number of carved stones and tomb fragments, including the three Romanesque pieces described here: a tympanum, fragments of a font bowl, and a chevron voussoir. There is no Romanesque fabric in the church as far as can be seen.
Parish church
Bosbury is a large village 4 miles N of Ledbury in E Herefordshire, close to the Malvern Hills and in the main hop-growing region of the county. It stands on the E bank of the River Leadon (little more than a stream here), its houses clustered around crossroads on the B4220. The church, in the village centre, has a 13thc chancel with a N organ room, a long aisled nave of 6 bays, the arcades dating from c.1200, and the E bay of the S aisle remodelled as the Morton Chapel, c.1500. There is a S porch and no W tower, but a detached 13thc tower stands to the S of the nave. The two nave arcades are recorded here, as is the chancel arch, the N and S nave doorways, the S chancel doorway, and 2 fonts; a disused bowl of indeterminate age and the font in use now, of c.1200.
Parish church
The church is largely of the 14thc., and has an aisled nave of four
bays with quatrefoil
clerestory windows over the piers. The S aisle is
original, the N was rebuilt in 1891-92 by W. M. Fawcett, who had restored the
church in 1876–77. The chancel is aisleless, its
E window (and probably the entire E wall) being 19thc. There is a W tower which
is mortar-rendered, but otherwise construction is of mixed pebble and stone
rubble with ashlar buttresses, except for the chancel E
wall which is of ashlar with brick repairs. Johnson reported a loose 12thc.
stone in the church, but this was not found.
Parish church
The church has an aisled nave (the S arcade Romanesque, the N of 1887) and a later medieval chancel and SW tower. Romanesque sculpture is found in the W doorway of the nave, moved from the N wall in 1831, and in the S nave arcade.
Parish church
The church consists of a nave, chancel with apsidal sanctuary, S transept, S porch and N
aisle. The tower and nave are late 11thc. (the chancel and
tower arches are c. 1080). The N aisle was added in the late 12thc., i.e. c.1190, and the N arcade of two bays is Transitional. The apse and the S transept were added in 1841. The
Romanesque elements are the tympanum over the S door, the
chancel arch (W side) and the remains of a disused
font.
Parish church
The church consists of a chancel, nave, N aisle, W tower and S
porch. The chancel and the N aisle
are 14thc.
The
W tower and the walls of the nave are post-Conquest and appear to date from about
1080. The round-headed tower arch is chamfered, with chamfered imposts, but otherwise
plain. On each face of the tower are double round-headed (arcuated lintels) openings
with a central shaft between them (the shafts appear to be modern) which have a
chamfered impost in place of a capital. The double windows are set within
round-headed, chamfered openings. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway and
the font.
Parish church
Gisleham stands on the edge of the arable land of the NE Suffolk coastal plain, less than a mile S of the edge of Lowestoft. The village was a small one, but the expansion of Lowestoft seems set to absorb it as it has already absorbed its neighbour, Carlton Colville.Holy Trinity stands in the centre of the village, with the moated site that was once the hall less than half a mile to the S. It is of flint and comprises a round W tower, nave and chancel. The tower has a 12thc. W window and further small round-headed windows just above the nave roof level at E and W. An octagonal upper storey with Y-traceried bell-openings and a battlemented parapet was added in the early 14thc. The tower arch is plain and round-headed. The nave retains the remains of a 12thc. N doorway; blocked with bricks in its lower part and overbuilt by a 19thc. window above. This window is a copy of the 14thc. reticulated windows that form the rest of the fenestration of the nave and chancel. The work was done at some time between 1800 and 1860, and a N porch was removed at the same time. The S doorway is 14thc. and sheltered by a contemporary porch of knapped flint with flushwork and heraldic reliefs. The 14thc. chancel arch has been taken out, but the remains of its responds indicate that it was very tall. The remains of a piscina, like the windows, indicate an early 14thc. date. The S porch and wall were restored in 1990-91. The tower arch and the N doorway are recorded below.