The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Guthlac (now)
Parish church
Market Deeping is a market town in the South Kesteven district of the county, 5 miles N of Peterborough. The church is built of ashlar and coursed limestone rubble and stands to the W of the town centre. It consists of a W tower, an aisled nave with a clerestorey and a S porch and a chancel with a N vestry, formerly a chapel. The tower dates from 1440, and the nave is 12thc in origin, its doorway reset in the S aisle. The arcades date from the 13thc, the N being early and the S late. The aisles were rebuilt in the 15thc, and the chancel restored and its arch replaced by Fowler in 1878. Romanesque sculture is recorded here from the S nave doorway and in the arch to the former N chapel.
Parish church
Little Cowarne is a village in central Herefordshire, 3½ miles SW of Bromyard and 9 miles NE of Hereford. The area is sparsely populated and mostly given over to mixed farming. The village straggles along a network of minor roads, with Little Cowarne Court and the church at its N end. St Guthlac's is a rebuild carried out by F. R. Kempson in 1869-70, incorporating the N walls of the chancel (with a 12thc lancet) and the nave (with a 13thc window). It consists of chancel, nave, S porch and W tower. The lower part of the tower may be 13thc, but the saddleback roof is by Kempson. A description of the medieval church may be found in Duncumb (1812), which describes a small church consisting of a chancel and nave separated by a stone wall, no tower nor spire but two small bells suspended under the W end of the roof. The only feature described here is the font.
Parish church
Situated on a picturesque, woody knoll, St. Guthlac’s is a small Lincolnshire church consisting of a nave, N aisle with E chapel, chancel, and a S porch. The S doorway, chancel, and N arcade are from the 13th century. The exterior W wall has the date 1657 in the gable which must refer to its rebuilding; the N aisle was rebuilt in 1850.
The chancel arch and imposts (re-used capitals) on the S porch entrance are Romanesque.
Parish church
This is a large Fenland parish church. The evidence of the lancet windows and a clerestory lancet headstone suggest that the chancel and nave were rebuilt during the 13thc. The S arcade is of the 14thc. while the N arcade, clerestory, and W tower are all later medieval work. There was a major restoration in 1853-54 under the direction of the rector, Rev. Henry Holdsworth during which the S porch was completely rebuilt and the vestry added. Extant Romanesque features are the priest's doorway, segments of the chancel string course, and numerous re-set stones in the chancel, nave, and aisle walls.