The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Michael and All Angels (now)
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Throwley is a small and fairly isolated village near Faversham. The church of St Michael has an aisled nave and a chancel, and a S tower. Romanesque sculpture include the W doorway and some reset fragments in the S tower transept.
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Cammeringham is a village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 6 miles N of Lincoln. The church, in the village centre, consists of a nave with a W bellcote and a chancel, but it originally had a 12thc N arcade of which Of the two bay, Romanesque N nave arcade, a single pier is still fully visible. There was also a N chapel but that has gone and the blocked 14thc entrance arch is all that remains. Construction is of coursed ironstone and limestone rubble and ironstone and limestone ashlar.
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Kingstone is a good sized village 6 miles SW of Hereford, with the church at its centre. St Michael’s can best be described as confusing. It has two parallel vessels, separately roofed, separated by a 3-bay 12thc arcade. Each has its own chancel, again separately roofed, and at the W end of the N vessel is a 14thc tower. In the present arrangement the S vessel, slightly wider than the N, is the nave and the N vessel the aisle, which makes the chancel on the N side a chapel. It seems possible that the present N aisle was originally an aisleless nave, to which a S aisle was added in the later 12thc. This would explain the position of the tower, but not the fact that the chancel is offset to the S to abut the chancel of the S vessel. The RCHME analysis, accepted by Pevsner and Brooks, is that the S vessel was originally an aisleless nave, and the fact that it has a 12thc S doorway supports this. This doorway is the only Romanesque feature of the church. The tower was rebuilt by Cottingham in 1848-51, and there was a complete restoration in 1889-90 by Nicholson and Son.
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The late 12thc. W tower was rebuilt in 1950 after bomb damage, and vestries were added to either side. The nave and aisles were rebuilt in 1835, following a fire, but the chancel is medieval. The vestry and organ chamber on the S side of the chancel date from 1893, at which time the medieval S arcade was reopened.
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Lyonshall is a village in the NW of Herefordshire, 10 miles W of Leominster. The chuch stands on a ridge overlooking the A44 from Leominster to Rhayader and consists of a W tower, a nave with N and S aisles, a timber framed S porch, transeptal N and S chapels and a chancel with a N vestry. The present building is largely 13th and 14th centuries, but the window in the W wall of the N nave asile is evidence of a lost Norman church, perhaps the one which housed the Romanesque font sitting outside, in the angle of the W tower and the S aisle, deprived of its original base. Another remanant is a corbel reset in the S nave asile wall. Pevsner does not record the older font, or the re-used corbels which now support it but, if they came from the earlier church and were discarded during the Gothic rebuild or G F Bodley’s restoration in 1872, they may only fairly recently have come to light. The church, some three-quarters of a mile from a stretch of Offa’s Dyke, stands on a site that was clearly of some importance in the middle ages, given its proximity to a moated castle with an outer and inner bailey and the masonry remains of a circular keep of 13th-century date. The castle belonged to the Careys and then the Devereuxs. (Pevsner Herefords, 1963 repr 1982, 244-5)
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Lydbury North is a village in the Shropshire Hills in the SW of the county, 8 miles SW of Church Stretton. The church is in the centre of the village, and is a large cruciform building with a W tower. The nave and chancel are 12thc as is the arch to the N transet chapel, but the chapel itself is 14thc. The S transept is 17thc and appears completely out of scale from the exterior. Plain 12thc windows survive on the N and S walls of the nave, and in the chancel. Features described here are the S chancel doorway, the tower arch, the N chapel arch and the font.
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Brodsworth is an estate village five miles NW of Doncaster. The church is adjacent to the grounds of Brodsworth Hall (English Heritage), close to the site of a previous hall, which was demolished in 1860 on completion of the present one. In 2010 the University of Sheffield ran a Brodsworth Archaeology Landscape Project, which included excavation in the churchyard.
The church, of a creamy limestone, consists of chancel, nave, tower, N and S aisles extending into the chancel, and S porch. Both the nave and tower feature battlemented parapets and tile roof; the tower is considered to be late 12th or early 13thc. The nave is early Romanesque, whilst the N arcade and the long chancel are later medieval additions (see Comments).
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Single-aisled church largely rebuilt in the 19thc. Blocked 12thc N doorway in the nave. Small plain Norman window in the N wall of the chancel. 12thc Priest's Doorway. 12thc font at the W end of the nave. There are fragments of sculpture immured in the exterior of the nave and the chancel.
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Torpenhow is a village about 10 miles NE of Cockermouth, in the Lake District National Park. Parts of an early church survive within the present structure, including the W end of the chancel and the upper stonework of the nave arcades. The church was altered again in the 12thc, which included an E extension to the chancel and at least one of the two nave aisles. Further alterations were carried out in the 13thc, in the 15thc and in the 17thc. In 1882 and 1913, restoration works were undertaken. Carved stonework survives from the 12th-c church, such as the chancel arch, the S doorway, the W responds of both nave aisles and the baptismal font. There are also three Norman windows on the N side of the chancel, and evidence of similar, previous windows existing in the E and S walls of the chancel. Two colours of sandstone are used for many of the carved Romanesque features.
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The medieval cross is located W of the church of St Michael. The present church was built in 1609, so the cross was probably associated with the medieval church, which was described as a ‘mean, low, ruinous building, and often destroyed by the Scots’ (Bulmer, 1884). The 1609 church was restored in 1868.
Only three of the arms of the cross survive, although fragments of stone show where the ring and upper arm began. Before 1816, the head of the cross had become detached from the shaft, but the fragments had been put back together, with the help of metal clamps, by 1860.