
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

St Ethelbert (now)
Parish church
St Ethelbert’s comprises a square W tower, chancel, nave and S aisle. The N nave wall of the Norman church survives, although restored. The chancel and S aisle date from about 1300 and the W tower is of the late 15thc. The church, including the porch sheltering the elaborately decorated Romanesque S door, underwent restoration in the 19thc. Within the building there is a Romanesque font and also a colonnette, reused as a support for the Gothic piscina in the chancel.
Parish church
Tannington is towards the E of the county, 14 miles N of Ipswich and 4
miles NW of Framlingham. The land here is arable and fairly flat. The village
consists of a few dwellings and farms scattered in a triangle bounded by the
three residences of Tannington Hall (to the N), Tannington Lodge (to the E) and
Tannington Place (to the W). Braiseworth Hall is also nearby (not to be
confused with the other Braiseworth near Diss, just 7 miles away). The church
stands in fields alongside Tannington Place. It consists of a nave and
chancel in one, with a S porch
to the nave and a N vestry to the chancel, and a W tower. Nave and chancel are of flint, the nave only rendered with mortar. The
nave has a blocked 12thc. N doorway. The S nave and chancel doorways and the nave and chancel windows all date from the 14thc. to 15thc. The
battlemented S porch, decorated with flushwork and
with a niche for sculpture over the entrance, is
dateable by wills toc.1450. The E window has the intersecting tracery
ofc.1300, and the piscina is of the same
period. Inside there is no chancel arch. The tower is
15thc. and built of knapped flint with diagonal buttresses, a SE bell stair and
a plinth decorated with chequered flushwork. It has a
battlemented parapet. A date of 1879 on the rainwater heads indicates a
restoration. The only Romanesque sculpture is on the N doorway of
c.1200.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Littledean is a small village within the Hundred of St, Briavels in the Forest of Dean and lies 17km WSW of Gloucester.
The church is entered through the West porch into a clerestoried nave with a north aisle. This was added in 1400 and consisits of a four bay arcade with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. There is a S porch now used as a vestry. The chancel and arch were rebuilt in the 14thc. The arch retains its late Romanesque semi-circular imposts and the S wall of the nave is also said to date from this period. There is a N chapel off the chancel with a two bay arcade similar to the one in the nave. In the S wall of the chancel there is a blocked door way and in the SE corner rood stairs.
The church is built of coursed rubble and there is a W tower with diagonal butresses. It has the remains of a spire which was taken down in 1894 due to storm damage.