The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Mary the Virgin (now)
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Charlbury is a large village in NW Oxfordshire, 6 miles S of Chipping Norton. There was originally a smaller Romanesque church on this site. It was greatly enlarged in the 13thc. by the extension of the chancel eastwards, and by the addition of a tall W tower, a S aisle, and N and S chapels. The S chapel runs the whole length of the chancel as well as the nave. There was a major repair and refit by G.E. Street in 1856. As the church is so wide relative to its length, the seating is now oriented with the altar at the W end where it is visible to worshippers from the side aisles as well as the nave. The only surviving Romanesque features are the three round arches of the N nave arcades with responds and a single pier.
Parish church
St Mary's has a clerestoreyed nave with N and S aisles. The arrangement
of the arcades is rather complex. There are six
bays on the N and five on the S. The two east
bays of each arcade correspond.
The next pier W of each arcade
is a short section of wall with responds to E and W and transverse arches
across nave and aisles. W of this there are four bays
in the N arcade but only three in the S, although the
arcades are of equal length. This is because the S
arcade has pointed arches throughout, and the N round
arches. Of this ensemble, the earliest work is in the W section of the N
arcade, say c.1190-1210. The two E
bays of both arcades date from
a decade later; pier 1 of each arcade is cylindrical with a moulded capital and the arches on
the N are round, but on the S the round arches have been replaced by pointed
ones with an unusual double hollow profile. This modification probably belongs
to the later 13thc., and from this period too dates the entire west section of
the S arcade. The E part of the present nave was, of
course, the chancel originally, with chapels to N and S
now integrated into the nave aisles. A new chancel was
built to the E in the 13thc., but the present chancel
is largely of 1866-67, and by James Fowler of Louth. The remainder of the
church was restored in the same period, by William Slater of Northampton. The S
nave doorway is covered by a porch, which also
incorporates a tiny 13thc. chapel, once vaulted, open to the S aisle. The W
tower dates from c.1250, and has a 14thc. ashlar broach
spire.
Parish church
The medieval church of St Mary's was rebuilt in 1826 by G Draper, then rebuilt again in 1934 by Randoll Blacking. The present building is a large brick church with a spacious galleried nave, transepts and chancel.
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Black Bourton is a village about eight miles SW of Witney on Black Bourton Brook, a tributary of the River Thames. The church lies to the N of the village and was built of coursed rubble limestone; it consists of an early 12thc chancel altered in the 13thc, a late 12thc nave with N aisle, a 14thc S porch, and a W tower erected on the westernmost sector of the nave in the early 16thc. The building was restored 1866 by Edward George Bruton. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway, the N arcade, and the font.
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The nave of Yapton church has aisles with early 13thc. arcades, with stiff-leaf and crocket
capitals. There is a tower at the W end of the S aisle. The chancel is large, and entered through a 13thc. arch. The inner
arch descends onto fluted consoles of a type that
occur within the context of multi-scallop capitals in other W Sussex churches
ofc.1200.
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Little Laver is a village in the Epping Forest district of W central Essex, 12 miles W of Chelmsford and 8 miles E of Harlow and the Hertfordshire border. The village is surrounded by arable farmland, and the church stands at its N edge. St Mary's consists of a nave and chancel in one with a S porch to the nave and a N vestry and organ room to the chancel. The church is 14thc in origin, but was restored in 1872 by J. Goldicutt Turner, who added the porch, vestry and an apsidal E end. Construction is of flint rubble with clunch and freestone dressings and a red tiled roof. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
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Little Thurrock is now part of the Thurrock Unitary Authority, on the N bank of the Thames between Grays to the E and Tilbury to the W. The medieval church marks the site of the former village, but this has been completely absorbed by 20thc housing developments. St Mary's has a 12thc nave with a N porch, a chancel rebuilt in the 14thc with a N organ chamber added in 1909 and a 19thc S vestry. The church was restored by F. Franey in 1878-79, and he added the W tower in 1883-84. Construction is of flint and mixed rubble with limestone dressings. The S doorway is 12thc alng with parts of the chancel arch.
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This is a low, sturdy Perpendicular style church in gritstone, sited on the edge of a level step in the S side of the Calder valley where the Huddersfield to Halifax road drops down to a bridge; the surviving streets of the old town plan (Southgate, Church Street) lie to the S. The church has an aisled nave of four bays, a tower enclosed by the aisles; a chancel with N chapel and S organ. The nave roof is thought to be 13thc, the oldest in Yorkshire; the nave walls inside are plastered. There are illustrations of the church c. 1830 or 1840 (Butler (2007), 172; Crossley (1920); Ryder (1993), 85) but none show Romanesque features.
Romanesque remains are the voussoirs in the three orders of the pointed chancel arch; the builders in the 14thc made use of 12thc stone, presumably from the previous narrower chancel arch (Bilson 1922).
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The church is entirely of red sandstone, with a south aisle and two-bay chancel with a full-length south chapel. The lower parts of the tower are 14thc. The rest of the church is probably late Perpendicular. The roof was replaced in the 1960s but there is the mark of a earlier medieval roof suggesting a single-vessel church in the 14thc. Some lapidary fragments are kept behind a wooden screen to the N of the pulpit. One of them is almost certainly the base of a Romanesque font.
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East Preston church has a Perp. W tower, a 12thc. nave with a Victorian
S aisle (1869; Sir George Gilbert Scott), and a 13thc. chancel, which is the same height and width as the nave. There
is a Norman window in the N wall of the nave.