The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Barnabas (now)
Parish church
Faccombe is a village in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, close to the Berkshire border. It is 7 miles N of Andover, and a similar distance SW of Newbury (Berkshire). A large part of Faccombe is occupied by the Faccombe Estate, rich in wildlife and forested, and used mainly for shooting. The church is in the centre of the village, and consists of nave and chancel in one with a S porch and a W tower. It was built in 1866 by G. B. Mussellwhite in a 13thc style, replacing the previous parish church, a small Norman church dedicated to St Michael in the part of the parish called Netherton. This was entirely demolished when St Barnabas was completed, only the font and several monuments being retained. Construction is of coarse flints with ashlar dressings.
Parish church
Great Tey is a village in the Colchester district of Essex, 6 miles W of Colchester. The village extends for approximately a mile along the minor road that runs across the Colne Valley from Bures and Wakes Colne south to Marks Tey. The church is alongside this road at the S end of the village, and a moated site immediately to the E suggests the presence of a manor house.
St Barnabas’s is an imposing sight and was once bigger still. What survives is the crossing of a cruciform church with a tower above it, a long 3-bay chancel, the remains of one nave bay, and N and S transepts. The 1st storey of the tower is now a gallery. Entry is through a porch added to the W side of the S transept, and the N transept now houses the organ. The crossing and the remains of the S nave arcade are 12thc, the chancel and the transepts were both rebuilt in the 14thc and the S tower arch was rebuilt in the 15thc. In 1829 most of the nave including the aisles were removed, and the nave closed off with a W wall. The porches on the W sides of both transepts are modern too. Construction is of flint rubble with some Roman bricks and freestone.
Parish church
Alphamstone is a village in the Braintreee district of north Essex, a mile W of the river Stour, which forms the boundary with Suffolk. The nearest town of any size is Sudbury (Suffolk), 4 miles to the N.
The church consists of a 12thc nave, altered c.1300 and in the 16thc and restoredby Sir Arthur Blomfield in the 19thc. It has a 3-bay S aisle of c.1300, and a timber bell-turret with a pyramid roof over the W gable. There are porches to the N and S doorways. The chancel, also of c.1300, is 3 bays long. The nave is rendered, the N and E chancel walls ore of knapped flint, and the S chancel wall of brick. The chancel was in the course of restoration in 1902, when the Essex Archaeological Society paid a visit, and at that time dedication of the church was unknown.
The only Romanesque feature is a Purbeck marble font.