The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Margaret (now)
Parish church
The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles and N porch, and W tower with a
vestry attached on the S. The church was rebuilt by William Butterfield in 1870-72.
Some parts of the older stucture were retained. The S aisle is 14thc., the first two
stages of the tower are 12thc. and the uppermost stage 14thc. The round-headed tower
arch has a chamfered impost, but is otherwise plain. A round-headed window, deeply
splayed, survives on the S face of the lowest stage of the tower and now opens onto
the vestry. On the exterior the second stage windows of S, E and W faces (the E
window is covered by the chancel roof and the W is partially hidden behind the church
clock) have a continuous thick roll with inverted cushion bases (partially restored).
The church walling is coursed rubble. There is some herringbone masonry visible in
the tower walling. Romanesque sculpture is found on a reset fragment in the N aisle.
The fragment is not from the church.
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St Margaret's includes a W tower (Perp.,c.1400), nave (12thc. origin),
S aisle ofc.1175-1220, square-ended chancel (mid or
late 13thc.) and S chapel (c.1270). The church was restored in 1870.
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The church is substantially late medieval and Victorian, retaining no
evidence of the Norman structure to which the font may have belonged.
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The village of Thorne St Margaret stands on rising ground on the S bank of the River Tone, 7miles W of Taunton and less than 2 miles from the Devon border. The church is in the centre of the village, and consists of a 2-bay chancel with a S vestry and organ room, a nave with S aisle and S porch, and a W tower, all of red sandstone random rubble. The tower is 15thc and the remainder 19thc, but there are 12thc carved stones reused on the interior of the S doorway, and a 12thc font.
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The compact hamlet of Queen Charlton, hardly more than a cluster around the village green of manor house, manor farm, church and a few handsome dwellings, lies at the head of a narrow valley leading down to the Avon at Keynsham, Somerset, 2 miles to the NE. The valley was doubtless the route of the historical communication between Queen Charlton and the wider world (specifically, Keynsham Abbey). Geologically, Queen Charlton rests on the limestone of the Lower Lias (Blue and White Lias). The regal distinction of this village commemorates the gift of the property by King Henry VIII to Catherine Parr (Ekwall, 1960, 96). The church has late 12thc. origins and was altered in the 13thc and 15thc with a 19thc restoration. It consists of nave and N porch, central tower, N transept, chancel and remains of a S chapel. The central tower has Romanesque openings with Romanesque sculptural elements in the crossing. The font is also Romanesque. (Note: a Romanesque doorway is in the wall of the lane to the W of the church (see separate entry: St Margaret, Queen Charlton, resited doorway, Somerset - CRSBI).
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Catmore consists of the church and a farmhouse in the hilly, wooded farmland of west Berkshire. The church has a single nave and chancel. Nave has a 19thc. bellcote on the W gable and opposed N and S doorways, both 12thc. The S doorway, described below, is protected by a porch with a neo-Norman external doorway. The N doorway, not described, is completely plain and headed by a segmental chamfered arch. There is a 12thc. font decorated with beakhead.
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St Margaret's has an aisled, clerestoried nave of three bays, chancel and W tower. The chancel, nave arcades and south aisle are of 13thc. date, but the whole church underwent a complete reconstruction in the 14thc., involving a partial rebuilding of the chancel; a heightening of the aisles and the building of the clerestorey. In the 15thc., the chancel arch was rebuilt and a west tower and spire were built within the nave. At some period, both aisles were shortened at the west end. In 1870-1, Scott rebuilt and widened the N aisle, and a vestry was built on the north side of the chancel, both aisles were restored to their original length, the roofs were renewed, and a south porch was added. The west end of the south aisle was under-pinned and repaired in 1908. The tower, heavily buttressed at the W, has a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The chancel is 13thc., but the chancel arch is Perpendicular. Construction is of coursed ashlar. 12thc. sculpture is represented by the font and the reset S doorway.
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A rendered parish church, now on the outskirts of Crawley, comprising a
W tower (1883) with a broach spire, an aisled nave(14thc.) with a king-post
roof and clerestorey and a square chancel (13thc.). The 12thc. font is the earliest feature of
the site.
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St Margaret's has a large, squarish nave of alternate limestone and ironstone courses, dating from the rebuilding of 1827-28 by Charles Squirhill. This replaced an aisled 13thc. nave, and the W responds of the arcades still remain, along with the S doorway under a medieval porch. Also from the medieval church are the small, square chancel (13thc.) and the W tower (13thc. in its lowest parts). There are vestries to N and S of the chancel, the S a modern addition. Inside the nave the church retains its W gallery, with an organ in the centre and benches to either side. The font may, at a pinch, be 12thc., but is more probably 13thc.
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Syleham is 6 miles E of Diss; the church standing alongside the river
Waveney which forms the Norfolk border. The land is largely arable country of
low hills, but cattle graze in the pastures by the river. The church stands
alone, the rest of the village standing on a low hill 0.7 miles to the SE. St Margaret's has a nave, chancel and round W
tower. At the W angles of the nave the quoins are
large and irregular, suggesting an 11thc. origin. The nave is low now, but a
mark on the tower shows that the roof was once more steeply pitched. The
lowering may date from the 15thc., when the nave windows were renewed and the S
doorway and its porch added. The 13thc. N doorway is
blocked. The nave is of flint, but the eastern bays on
both sides have been rebuilt using red brick and flint. On the S this
bay projects slightly from the line of the nave wall,
and it is possible that chapels have been removed at some time. To the same
campaign belong the brick buttresses on the S side of the nave. Inside, there
is a blocked N rood stair; the tower arch is small and
plain, and the chancel arch is 15thc. work. The
chancel was not rebuilt with the nave, and is
considerably higher and out of scale with the nave. It
is of flint and dates from the early 13thc., to judge from two plain lancets on
the N side, but the S windows were replaced in the 14thc. and 15thc. The E
window is 19thc. The flint tower is of two storeys; the upper 14thc. and
decorated with chequer patterns in light and dark flints. The battlemented
parapet is of brick. As is commonly the case, the lower storey is difficult to
date; Mortlock and Pevsner both say Norman, Mortlock also detecting earlier
masonry at the base. A stone on the S wall of the nave records that the roof
leads were repaired in 1737. The present timber roof is 19thc. The font is
small, plain and octagonal, possibly 14thc. according to Mortlock. It stands on
a much earlier base with angle
volutes; probably part of the inverted bowl of a 12thc. font.
This is the only Romanesque sculpture on the
site.