The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Denys (now)
Parish church
Built of grey, rubble masonry throughout, the church comprises a nave with S aisle and porch, a transept on the S side of the church, a tower on the N, and a chancel. There are Romanesque carved fragments set into the chancel walls both inside and out, and reset into a niche on the N side of the nave; the niche has an arched head composed of plain reset voussoirs and contains loose fragments.
Parish church
Stanford Dingley is an attractive village on the river Pang, 9 miles west of Reading, consisting of a few houses and a pub on a junction of minor roads. The church is at the north end of the village. It is built of flint with a weatherboarded bell-turret topped by a pyramidal roof. A N aisle with an arcade of two unequal bays was added to the original aisleless church in the late 12thc. The same was done on the S side early in the 13thc., and at the same time or shortly afterwards the N aisle was extended W by one bay and a new chancel built, to be replaced c.1768 by the present one of brick. 12thc. sculpture is found on the piers of the N nave arcade.
Parish church
Stanford in the Vale is a large village in the Vale of the White Horse, 5 miles NW of Wantage. It has two village greens, Upper Green and Church Green, of which the latter is dominated by the low and broad mass of St Denys church. The only Romanesque sculpture surviving from the original aisleless church decorates the S doorway. The N doorway is of c.1300.
Parish church
St Denys has a nave without aisles but with a clerestorey on the S side. It retains its wooden W gallery, now housing the organ. It has a W tower, a chancel with a 19thc. E window in a 14thc. style and porches covering the N and S nave doorways. The N porch was converted into a vestry in 1881, and the N doorway retains some of its 12thc. sculpture. The S porch is dated 1696. A stained glass window installed by the vicar Gregory Bateman in 1882 in memory of his wife shows the interior and exterior of the church.
Parish church
Numerous additions and restorations have produced a complex,
asymmetrical building dating largely from the 16thc. and 19thc. The earliest
part is the lower stage of the S tower, dating from the late 12thc. or early
13thc.
Parish church
Northmoor is a small village in south-west Oxfordshire close to Stanton Harcourt. The present church of St Denys is an almost unaltered small cruciform building of the early 14thc., with a 15thc. tower. Its only Romanesque feature is the tub font decorated with a single flowering stem.