The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Bartholomew (now)
Parish church
Substantially of 12thc. date but restored in 1861 and 1893, the church comprises a nave with plain N arcade, a N porch, chancel, N vestry and organ chamber. During one of the 19thc. restorations, it was clad in yellow ashlar and the plain S doorway reset. The church contains a plain font.
Parish church
Notgrove lies some 6 miles SW of Stow-on-the-Wold, on the S side of the main road from Gloucester to Bourton-on-the-Water at the head of a small valley. The church is situated adjacent to the manor house at the S end of the village. The church, which is mainly built of coursed, squared and dressed limestone, consists of a chancel with N vestry, nave with N transept and narrow N aisle, S porch and W tower. Part of the fabric, including the N arcade, dates from the 12thc., but the church was extensively remodelled in the 14thc. The Romanesque features comprise the N arcade, font and a loose voussoir.
Parish church
Built of sandstone rubble, the church has a 12thc. nave and chancel, and a W tower of 1817. Restorations were carried out in 1905, and the E part of the chancel was rebuilt at this time. There is Romanesque sculpture in the S doorway of the nave and on the font.
Parish church
Winstone is situated on one of the highest parts of the Cotswolds about 5.5 miles NW of Cirencester. The church and manor house lie to the E of the present village. The church, which is sited on a gentle slope, is built of limestone rubble with a stone roof and consists of a chancel with N vestry, nave with S porch, and W tower. The nave dates from the later 11thc and retains its original N and S doorways and chancel arch. Like a number of other nearby churches, Winstone has no E window. The building was restored by Frederick Sandham Waller in 1876 when the chancel was largely rebuilt. Romanesque sculptural evidence consists in the S and N doorways and in the chancel arch.
Parish church
St Bartholomew's is a simple, two-cell aisleless building ofc.1100, rebuilt in 1863. It has a double bell-cote on the W gable and a S nave doorway under a porch, both 19thc. The surviving 12thc. features are the herringbone masonry in the E wall, plain windows in the E and N chancel walls and the N nave wall, a plain chancel arch and a font.
Parish church
Vowchurch is in the Golden Valley in SW Herefordshire, the village consisting of a few
house and the church clustered around a crossing of the rive
Dore (little more than a stream at this point) on the minor road to Turnastone and
Michaelchurch. To the N the road rises steeply to Vowchurch Common. The landscape here
is hilly wooded pastureland. The church, of coursed sandstone rubble, stands alongside
the bridge and consists of a long nave and chancel in one with a
timber-framed W bell turret with a broach spire. There is no
chancel arch. At the W end of the nave the N and S walls are
of a different build from the rest, and this section is all that remains of the 12thc.
fabric (confirmed by a round-headed window in the S nave wall, immediately E of the S
porch). The eastern part of the church was rebuilt in the
14thc., and probably lengthened, and the church was rededicated in 1348 (see VII
History). The N and S doorways and the remaining windows are 14thc.; the three-light N,
S and E windows being of a type that is locally common that has simple tracery bars on
the flanking lights but not in the central light. The bell turret was built with a bequest from Thomas ap Harry of Poston around 1522, and
the broach spire added as part of a restoration campaign in 1871. The timber porch is 17thc. and was restored in 1860. The only Romanesque
sculpture here is the font.
Parish church
Ingoldsby is a small village about seven miles SE of Grantham. The church lies to the W of the village and consists of a short nave with N and S aisles that embrace the W tower, a S porch, and a chancel. As Pevsner notes, though the tower, the S aisle, and the Victorian chancel may originally have been from c.1300, they underwent significant renovation during the 17thc. Romanesque sculptural remains are found in the N arcade of the nave.
Parish church
Orford is a tiny coastal town in the sandlings of SE Suffolk, 16 miles
due E of Ipswich. It was not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but there was a
successful port at the mouth of the river Alde and a market here by 1138. The
town received a boost from the building of the castle by Henry II between 1165
and 1173, but its importance fell as the port silted up; the sea throwing up
the long sand bar that now extends for over 5 miles from Orford Ness down to
Hollesley. The town is simply laid out around the market place, with the church
at its E end and the castle 0.27 km W of the market at the edge of the town.
The road from Sudbourne runs right through the centre, alongside the market, to
end at the quay at the town's S edge.St Bartholomew's was originally a cruciform 12thc. church with an aisled
chancel and two-bay transepts
with a square-ended E chapel on each. Excavations by Fairweather, reported in
1934, demonstrated that the chancel aisles were five
bays long, the central vessel one bay longer, and all terminated in square east ends. The form
of the Norman nave is unknown; it must have been aisled too, and there was a
crossing tower over the transept. In the 14thc. the old
nave was replaced with a new aisled nave, and the church was given a W tower.
The old tower was taken down at that time, for the new aisled nave was built to
extend as far as the east crossing arch, and the new
aisles absorbed most of the width of the Norman transept. The old aisled
chancel remained in use as late as 1621, when the Rev.
Francis Mason was buried there, but by 1720 it was ruinous and his memorial was
brought inside the church. By 1772 the chancel
arcades were still standing but the roofs and outer
walls were gone, and the nave had been blocked off with a gable and a two-light round-headed window in the central
vessel wall. This is the state shown in Hooper's 1785 engraving reproduced
here. The east walls of the nave were rebuilt in 1896 and 1899; the central
vessel walling being of ashlar and the aisle walls of flint with much reused
material in the N aisle blocking. The roofed part of the church now comprises a
14thc. aisled nave with five-bay
arcades and quatrefoil clerestory
windows above the piers. This has N and S doorways,
the S under a 15thc. porch and the aisle windows are
three-light reticulated, indicating a date of c.1320-30. The east wall
of the nave has been closed off at the position of the former east
crossing arch, and now has a 19thc. five-light window,
and the two easternmost bays of the nave have been
screened off and an altar fitted to act as a chancel.
The E part of each aisle is set up as a chapel, although the N aisle contains a
vestry and organ room too. The tower is now of four
storeys with diagonal buttresses. The belfry stage
collapsed in 1830 when the SW buttress gave way, and although the upper parts
were consolidated it was not properly rebuilt until 1962. In its present state,
the bell-openings are in the third stage with a band of flushwork
arcading at the top of this stage. The top stage is
blind and has a parapet with another band of flushwork decoration. The main
19thc. restoration of the church was by J. T. Micklethwaite, a pupil of Sir G.
G. Scott, and took place in two phases. In the first, completed in 1897, the
nave and aisles were re-roofed and the new E wall was built. In the second,
finished in 1900, the E wall of the S aisle was rebuilt, the porch re-roofed and new interior fittings installed. The
tower was restored between 1962 and 1971, the architect being Bruce George. The surviving 12thc. work consists, on the exterior, of the
chancel
arcades of four
complete bays and the beginning of a fifth. Nothing is
visible of the S transept on the exterior, but inside the present nave aisle
one shaft of the arch to the chancel aisle has survived with its capital. The N aisle has
fared better. Inside the church the arch to the chancel
aisle has survived complete, along with the window above, and to the north of
this is one jamb of the arch to the transept chapel,
again with the remains of the window above. All of these features can be
identified on the outside of the wall too, although this has been much rebuilt.
12thc. moulded stones have been reused in the blocking. The final traces of the
12thc. church are found in the former crossing. The W
responds of the NE and SE crossing
piers survive; the former with its capitals still in place.
There are also two loose stones: an engaged capital and part of a decorated
shaft.
Parish church
The church, built of red sandstone, consists of a nave with N aisle, a chancel ofc.1200, a S porch and a W tower. There was a drastic restoration in 1886 when a neo-Norman porch with doorway and an outside stairway with intersecting arcade was added. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S nave doorway, now within the 19thc. porch.
Parish church
Hognaston is a small village in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, 11 miles NW of Derby and 7 miles SW of Matlock. The church is in the village centre and consists of a nave with a N aisle and a S porch, a chancel roofed with the nave and a W tower, 12thc in its lower parts and 15thc and later above. There is evidence of building in the 12th, 13th and 14thc, but the church was rebuilt by F. J. Robinson in 1879-81. Romanesque features recorderd here are the S doorway with an enigmatic tympanum and beakheads on the jambs, and an arcaded font.