The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Mary Magdalene (now)
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Rothwell is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 9 miles N of Market Rasen and 2.5 miles SE of Caistor. The church is reached by a narrow path leading off School Lane, which runs S from the village centre. It has a late-11thc W tower of coursed rubble, a nave with 3-bay aisles added in the mid-12thc, and a chancel, which was restored in 1892 by J. D. Sedding.
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The village of Stocklinch Magdalene lies 3.5 mi NE of Ilminster, and is one of Somerset's nine Thankful Villages in which all the men who served in WW1 came home (and again in WW2). The church of St Mary Magdalene dates from the 13thc. and is Grade I listed. It has a chancel and nave with bellcote and porch. The only early feature is a font which may or may not be Romanesque.
Note: there is also a church of St Mary the Virgin in Stocklinch Ottersey which also contains an early font (see https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=914 ). The two parishes were combined into one benefice in 1931 when the total population was only 123; this church is now redundant.
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Withiel Florey lies 7 miles NE of Dulverton in west Somerset, within the modern Exmoor National Park. The church is in an isolated position with Castle Hill Farm the only nearby building. The churchyard looks like a naturally defensive position, and its rounded shape suggests the possibility of an earthwork or even a repurposed Celtic site. The church of St Mary Magdalene consists of a W tower, nave with S porch and chancel. The church was nearly demolished in 1959 but was fortunately saved for posterity and re-opened in 1961. Although the present building has 12thc origins, the only surviving Romanesque element is the font.
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The village of Upton Noble lies between Bruton and Frome in Somerset, 300m E of the main A359. Upton Noble, being near the W lip of the shallow valley to its E, has a good view of the border with Wiltshire. The border with Wiltshire, running along a N-S greensand ridge clothed with the remnants of ancient Selwood Forest, is only about 4mi E; the area still feels like a frontier zone, which is how it seems to have been treated in Saxon times (for example, defining the E limit of the diocese of Sherborne). The church of St Mary Magdalene (formerly St Margaret), which lies in the centre of the village, consists of a nave and chancel with a S chapel linked to a S tower porch. Romanesque elements comprise the S doorway, the font and a piece of exceptional re-set sculpture in the form of a crucifix.
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The manorial hamlet of Great Elm lies at about 100m OD on the L bank of Mells Stream just several kilometres downstream from Mells, among the hills of the E Mendips as they decline to the E. Less dominated than is Mells by limestone aggregate quarries because at their E limit, Great Elm occupies the N side of the Mells Stream valley just W of the large town of Frome. The church, which is built of random rubble, consists of a W tower, a nave with a S porch, a N transept and a chancel. Romanesque features recorded here are the blocked Norman doorway, partly obscured by the N transept, and the font.
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A red sandstone church with a nave and chancel mostly ofc.1200, a 14thc. S chapel and a W timber bell-turret. There is a plain round-headed doorway on the N side of the nave, and a doorway bearing Romanesque sculpture on the S. There is also a font of uncertain date but incorporating Romanesque features.
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Turnastone is a hamlet in the Golden Valley, in the South Herefordshire district. It is 10 miles W of Hereford and the nearest village is Vowchurch, less than half a mile to the E. The church has an aisleless nave and chancel in one with a low weatherboarded timber bell turret with a pyramid roof over the W gable and a timber S porch. There is a 12thc breccia font, but the S nave doorway of c.1200 is the oldest dateable fabric. The church is of decoratively coursed roughly-shaped sandstone and shows signs of work c.1300 (nave windows) and c.1500 (chancel doorway). There was a restoration by T. Edgar Williams of London in 1884.
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Extremely tall, five-bay nave with
clerestorey, N aisle and N and S porches. Much lower
aisleless chancel and W tower with octagonal stone
spire. The original (lower) nave and the chancel date
from c.1300 and the aisle and tower from the early 14thc. The clerestorey windows are Perpendicular, so the heightening of
the nave presumably dates from this time, but the exterior treatment makes it
difficult to be sure. The chancel and tower are
constructed of pebble rubble, the nave of stone rubble laid disturbingly like
crazy paving. The S side of the nave is mortar rendered. Inside, the
piers of the N arcade are of
Barnack stone and the arches of local clunch. There was a restoration in
1872-74 by J. Morley and J. Christian, and in 1926 the spire, having become
unsafe, was taken down along with the topmost storey of the tower. Rebuilding
was completed in the following year. The only 12thc. feature is the font.
Parish church
Only remnants of the N wall to the chancel of the 12thc church survive, together with a possible N doorway to the nave, and the font. The present building consists of a chancel, extended in the 13thc and rebuilt in the 15thc and 19thc; a 13thc nave; a late-14thc S porch and W tower; and an early 15thc S chapel with a 2-bay arcade into the nave.
Parish church
In the mid-C12th the Borough of Woodstock was founded by the king, and it is presumed that the present church was established at this time. It was created within the parish of Bladon as a chapel of ease. It is known that a S aisle was added in the C13th, and a bell tower, mentioned in 1279, stood on the N side of the church. This was rebuilt or raised in the C15th, but taken down as unsafe in the C18th. A new tower and N aisle were built in the classical style by John Yenn in 1784-6. The medieval church was almost completely rebuilt by A.W. Blomfield in 1878. Today the S doorway, richly decorated with two continuous orders of chevron, is the only Romanesque survival.