The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Bartholomew (now)
Parish church
East Lyng is in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, 7½ miles NE of Taunton and 5½ miles SE of Bridgwater. The three Lyngs (East Lyng, West Lyng and Lyng) lie along a ridge that extends eastwards like a tongue from the Quantock hills into the low drained moorland of the river Parrett floodplain.East Lyng is the largest of the three, and the only one with a church. The settlement is clustered around a junction on the A361 running E from Taunton towards Street and Glastonbury. The church stands in the centre of the village, alongside the main road.
The church dates from the 14thc and 15thc and consists of a 3-bay nave with N and S porches, a 2-bay chancel and a W tower. It is built of coursed and squared blue lias rubble with freestone dressings, and was restored in the mid-19thc. The only Romanesque feature is the plain font.
Parish church
Fingest is a small village in the Chiltern Hills, surrounded by wooded rolling pasture. It consists of a few houses, a pub and the church clustered around a minor crossroads some 5 miles W of High Wycombe. The church is dominated by its 12thc W tower with a later twin gabled roof. It has an unaisled nave with a plain round-headed N lancet indicating a 12thc date, and a 13thc chancel with no chancel arch. Entry is through the timber S porch. The exterior is rendered, although much has been lost from the tower. Romanesque features recorded here are the tower bell-openings and tower arch.
Parish church
Glazeley is a village in the SE of the county, 3 miles S of Bridgnorth. The vilage is no more than a cluster of houses and the church built on the S bank of the Borle Brook, a tributary of the Severn. The present church was rebuilt in 1873-5 by A. W. Blomfield in a 14thc style. A watercolour of the previous church shows a simple 2-cell 12thc building with a S porch and a W bell-turret (Shropshire County Council archive). There are two 12thc. fonts in the churchyard, one to W of S porch, the other to the E, near to a 12thc. stone coffin (?).
Parish church
Greens Norton is a substantial village in the S of the county, a mile NW of Towcester and less than a mile from Watling Street, the main Roman road running NW out of London. The church is in the village centre. It has a W tower with a spire, an aisled nave and a two-bay chancel. The easternmost bay of the nave is separated from the two western bays by heavy piers which appear to represent the end of an aisleless Anglo-Saxon nave. They include long and short work and carry a cross wall with a blocked, triangular-headed window. A continuous hammerbeam roof over the E bay of the nave and the chancel renders the liturgical divisions of the church ambiguous. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church
Chalvington has a single nave with a bell-turret over the W end, opposing N and S doorways (N doorway
now blocked), and a two-bay
chancel. There is no chancel arch.
Restored 1873.
Parish church
The church has N and S aisles, a heavily altered 12thc. chancel with plain round-headed windows, and a 15thc. W tower.
Romanesque sculpture is found in the blocked N chancel
doorway and S nave arcade.
Parish church
Maresfield is a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex, on the N side of Uckfield. The church is in the village centre and has a Perp W tower, a nave of Norman origin and a transept and chancel designed by J Olrid Scott (1875-79).
Parish church
Burwash is a large village in the Rother district of East Sussex, 10 miles SE of Tunbridge Wells and 12 miles NW of Hastings. The W tower is all that remains of an early 12thc. church, rebuilt piecemeal with the addition of N and S aisles later in the medieval period.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles and W tower, the detail predominantly 13thc. except for the very lavish 14thc. N aisle and the Transitional S arcade. The church also has a 12thc font.
Parish church
Crewkerne is a small town in the district of South Somerset, a mile from the southern border with Dorset. St Bartholomew’s is its parish church, centrally situated. It is an impressive cruciform building with a crossing tower, and is substantially of the 15thc and 16thc but with earlier features. It consists of an aisled nave, the N aisle extended E alongside the chancel as a chapel; N and S transepts; a S porch and a crossing tower. All walls have battlemented parapets, and the central element of the W front is flanked by a pair of octagonal battlemented stair turrets. A similar turret is attached to the SE angle of the crossing tower. Construction is of dressed limestone and Hamstone, and it was restored from 1889. Superficially it is entirely 15thc -16thc, but there are 13thc remains in the crossing and the E wall of the S transept. The only Romanesque work here is the Purbeck font.