The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Margaret (now)
Parish church
A large church with a two-aisled nave, chancel, transepts and crossing tower. The S doorway and parts of the crossing are 12thc. as are two small, plain, splayed, clerestory window openings, one above each transept arch. The present church dates from the 12thc. when it probably consisted of a chancel, nave, S transept and a low central tower. The N. transept was added in the early 13thc. In the 14thc. the church was rebuilt with the addition of aisles. In the 17thc. the low tower was raised to form a belfry. Of the 12thc. church, the tower crossing remains, with the 13thc. arch to the N transept and the N doorway reused in the 14thc. S aisle.
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The hamlet of Alstone lies some 4 miles W of Tewkesbury. In 1844 Alstone was transferred from Worcestershire to Gloucestershire, but remains within the diocese of Worcester. The church, which is situated in the middle of the settlement, consists of a nave, a chancel, a N aisle and a S porch with a modern timber belfry over the E end of the nave. The nave has been rebuilt, as has much of the chancel; the responds of the chancel arch and the S doorway remain in position from the 12thc building. The remains of a 12thc piscina have been incorporated into the S wall of the chancel.
Parish church
Lewknor lies at the foot of the Chilterns in SE Oxfordshire, close to the M40 motorway. The church is built of flint with stone dressings, with a few courses of brick in the N wall. The 12thc. church, originally a cruciform building, consisted of a chancel, nave and transeptal chapels. In the 14thc. the chancel was enlarged, and a S aisle and porch were added. The W tower is a 15thc. addition. The Romanesque is now represented by the N transeptal chapel with a blocked round-headed doorway, the nave with a pair of lancet windows on each side at the W end, the S and N restored corbel tables, and internally by the almost complete string course around the nave and chancel arch. A fine Romanesque font is sculpted overall with interlacing and linked circles containing various motifs, including two human heads.
Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a W porch, a W
bell-turret, a 13thc. S arcade
and a simple two-bay
chancel.
The plain W doorway has a tympanum in a raised
surround.
Parish church
St Margaret's has a nave with a broad N aisle and a narrow S aisle, a
chancel with a N aisle partly partitioned off to form a
vestry, and a W tower with a broach spire. The oldest
work here is a series of Anglo-Saxon reliefs related to those at
Breedon-on-the-Hill (Leics) and now set in the E chancel wall above the altar (until recently they were
outside, built into the E buttresses). The N arcade, N
chancel
arcade and
chancel arch all date from c.1160; the S aisle was
added c.1300 and it was probably at this time that the N aisle was widened, and
the two W bays of the N arcade
turned into a single long bay by removing a
pier and building a broad arch. In 1872 the church was
restored and a S porch built, and in 1901 the N aisle
was again rebuilt and extended to the E end of the church, absorbing the chapel
and vestry that were there before. The spire was
struck by lightning in 1917 and the upper part had to be rebuilt. The nave,
chancel and S aisle are faced with stone rubble; the N
aisle is of rough-faced ashlar; the lower storey of the tower is of rubble and
the upper storey of roughly-coursed ashlar blocks. 12thc. work is found in the
S chancel
corbel table, the N
arcades of nave and chancel and
the chancel arch. 2 fine relief panels showing standing
figures, built into the S wall of the chancel, are
probably 9thc., but are described and discussed since they have sometimes been
dated to the 12thc.
Parish church
The church was restored in the 19thc., leaving few traces of the
medieval structure. Two windows and a buttress on the N side are of 12thc.
date. The church contains a Romanesque font.
Parish church
St Margaret's has an aisleless nave, chancel and round W tower. The nave and chancel are rendered; the nave thatched and the chancel roofed in tiles. There is a 12thc. window in the N chancel wall. The nave has a 12thc. S doorway under a later porch and a 13thc. N doorway, now blocked. The flint tower is of two storeys, the upper rendered. There are small round-headed lancets in the lower storey; two on the N side, two on the S and one on the W. The upper storey has 12thc. double bell openings in the cardinal directions, alternating with plain round-headed windows of brick with chamfered jambs. 12thc. features described here are the S nave doorway and the bell openings of the tower.
Parish church
Little Faringdon is a hamlet in SW Oxfordshire, close to the river Thames and the Gloucestershire boundary. The present church consists of chancel, nave and N aisle. The chancel is simple 12thc, the nave and aisle Transitional. The Romanesque features are a mutilated tympanum re-set over the N aisle doorway, paired round-headed windows in both side walls of the chancel and a similar window in the nave W wall, a plain string course, a corbel table of roll billets, the responds of the pointed chancel arch, and the arcades whose responds and piers bear typical Transitional decoration and also human heads at the apex of the round arches as well as serving as hoodmould stops.
Parish church
St Margaret's has a clerestoreyed and aisled nave with five-bay
arcades and a wooden W
gallery housing the organ. The arcades are largely 14thc., but the reused E respond and bays 4 and 5 of the S
arcade are 13thc. with stiff-leaf capitals. The S doorway is under a
porch. The chancel is 14thc.,
and has a N vestry at the E end. The W tower dates
from c.1300, and has a broach spire with three rows of lucarnes. The
church is largely faced in ashlar, the chancel and
clerestorey in a warm yellow stone, the tower in red
ironstone. The aisles are rubble faced. The church was restored by R. C. Hussey
in 1840. The fabric, then, is almost entirely Decorated, but St Margaret's
boasts an important 12thc. font, unusual in being supported by atlantes.
Parish church
Th nave of Rottingdean church dates from the early 12thc., with the
exception of the W wall, which was rebuilt in the 14thc. The central tower and
chancel date from the 13thc., and the S aisle was added in 1856. The
foundations of a S transept were found in 1909. The loose fragments in the
church probably came from the 12thc. church on the site.