The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Edmund (now)
Parish church
Kellington is a village which is roughly equidistant between Pontefract and Selby in North Yorkshire. The parish church is on rising ground in an open position south-west of the village. It has nave, N aisle, chancel and N chapel, W tower, and S porch. There is a very worn S doorway 'with a round arch but moulded capitals' (Pevsner 1967, 282). There is also a blocked round-headed window in the S wall of the nave.
Structural work due to the development of the Selby coalfield caused the demolition and rebuilding of the tower, and also allowed unusually-extensive archaeological excavations from October 1990 to January 1991 (Mytum 1995). Small finds were in the hands of the University of York Archaeological department; larger pieces are still (2014) at the church. These include the possible baseof the font, and two fragments of carved stone which may have been a lintel
Parish church
St Edmund's has an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with two-bay
arcades. The tall 15thc. W tower
has clasping buttresses and a battlemented parapet. Both nave aisles were
extended to the W alongside the tower in 1996-97, to provide offices and a
kitchen, and the S aisle was also extended at the E end around the same time,
for a vestry. The N aisle had already been extended to
the E before 1709 for a Montagu family vault. The nave arcades are 12thc. and very plain, but the pier capitals may be 13thc. Bridges (1791) described a church
with a 13thc. chancel and chancel arch, but by the time his work was published it had
been overtaken by events. In 1748, John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, replaced the
chancel with the present broad Palladian structure,
dominated on the exterior by the great E window and on the interior by four
enormous Montagu tombs, two of them by L. F. Roubiliac. The chancel was almost separated from the nave by a wall blocking
the 13thc. chancel arch, leaving only a small entrance
arch. At the same time, most of the windows in the church were replaced, and
box pews were added together with a W gallery. The
church was restored from 1867-74 when a vestry was
added at the E end of the S aisle, and the pews and the old gallery removed (the present gallery
dates from 1978). The chancel arch was opened up, and
the 13thc. arch rediscovered. It was in such a poor state of repair, however,
that it was decided to replace it with the present copy. Duke John's Palladian
windows were replaced in a late Perpendicular style, except for the great E
window. The chancel was restored in 1981. The 13thc.
font was discovered at that time in a field nearby. The only elements
considered here are the nave arcades.
Parish church
The church has a broad nave and chancel, both without aisles and of the 12thc, and a W tower rebuilt 1936-37. The 12thc work is of rubble and good ashlar masonry. Romanesque sculpture is found in the blocked S doorway and blind arcade above; in the blind arcade above the plain round-headed doorway on the N side of the nave, the latter within a modern timber porch; on the string courses around the buttresses; and on the font. There is also a plain round-headed chancel arch with plain grooved impost blocks.
Parish church
The former village of Allestree became a suburb of the Borough of Derby in 1968. St Edmund's church was largely rebuilt and extended in 1865-6 by Stevens and Robinson of Derby. It retains a W tower of the 13thc. The only Romanesque feature is a S doorway that is partly renewed.
Parish church
Castleton is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, at the head of the Hope Valley and overlooked by Peveril Castle, built by William Peveril in 1086 on the ridge that marks the boundary between the Millstone Grit of the Dark Peak and the limestone of the White Peak. The church stands in the village centre and consists of a wide nave with a S porch, W tower and a chancel with a N organ chamber and vestry. The church retains a heavily restored 12thc chancel arch, but the remainder of the building is largely restoration work of c.1837.
Redundant parish church
The church is a small Victorian building in the grounds of Knapton Hall; the Hall and church lie between the A64 and the small village of East Knapton NE of Malton. A private trust was formed when the church became redundant about 1970; occasional services are held.
The church consists of a chancel, nave with N aisle, and bellcote. Pevsner and Neave (1995, 590) say that in the structure ‘old masonry S of the nave and a number of Norman corbels’ survive. There are three corbels reset either side of the window to the E of the porch.