The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St George (now)
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The compact village of Edington lies on the N side of the Polden Hills on a lower slope in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, about 8 miles W of Glastonbury. Edington was a chapelry of Moorlinch until it became a separate parish in 1863. The church was completely rebuilt in 1878-79 by Edwin Down in a fabric of coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings. The present building consists of a nave with a small N transept, chancel with N vestry, a S porch, and a W bellcote. The only Romanesque feature is a font.
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Brailes is a village in the Sratford on Avon districty of S Warwickshire, 8 miles E of Banbury. The village is divided into Upper (E) and Lower (W) Brailes, and the church is on the N side of Lower Brailes High Street. It is a large church of coursed ironstone with a tall W tower, an aisled nave with a S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. It is largely of 1325-72 with a 15thc tower, and was restored by William Smith from 1877-79. He rebuilt the chancel arch and the N aisle and clerestorey. The vestry was enlarged 1892-93. None of the fabric is Romanesque, but there is a section of an interesting carved shaft loose in the church.
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The nave and chancel of the church, or more likely just their N walls, date from the 12th century. The N door of the nave and the plain font are also Romanesque. A window of c1300 has been inserted into the E end of N wall of nave and the rest of the church dates predominantly from c1300 and much from the 19th century.
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The church has a Perpendicular west tower but the rest of the exterior dates from the restoration and reconstruction in 1854 by T.H. Wyatt. The church guidebook suggests that the whole church, except the tower was demolished and rebuilt. However, as Pevsner suggests, the details of the nave arcade, and a number of fragments survived from the 12thc.
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The present church has a late 13thc. chancel and nave to which a N aisle was added c.1320. Nave and aisle were lengthened by two bays
c.1330-40. It was restored in 1866-67 when the N vestry, S porch and W bell-turret were added. RCHME (II, 27) claims that the NE angle of the chancel is part of the 12thc. church, but this is doubtful. However, numerous carvings reused inside the church testify to the existence of an earlier building, dating to the second quarter of the 12thc. All the 12thc. stones are reset inside the church, and are described in section IV.5.c. below
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Located in the borderlands between Wales and Shrewsbury, this aisled church is post-Romanesque. The nave, aisles and tower of the church are 19thc; the chancel 13thc and the E window c.1300.
Romanesque sculpture is found on the 12thc font located at the W end of the nave.
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Pentlow is a small village in the Braintree district of north Essex, on the S side of the River Stour that forms the Suffolk border. The closest major town is Sudbury, 4 miles to the SE. The modern village centre is a mile to the S of the hall and the church, which form a group close to the river and effectively hidden from the road.
The church is of flint and pebble rubble with ashlar dressings. It consists of a 12thc nave with a 19thc S porch of brick and knapped flint; an apsidal chancel, and a round W tower and a N chancel chapel that were added in the 14thc. The chapel was remodelled c.1600 when it became the Kempe chapel, housing three imposing effigies. Pentlow is one of only six round-towered churches in Essex. Romanesque features are the font, the nave W doorway, now inside the later tower and decorated with an animal head at the apex, and a base re-used as building material at the SW angle of the nave.
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The church has a 19thc. chancel; a 12thc. nave with aisles, extensively restored in 19thc., and a W tower. The N nave aisle has a two-storey porch with a timber-framed gable at the W end, protecting a 12thc doorway, and at the E end of the N nave aisle is a 13thc doorway with a pointed arch and dogtooth ornament, and a 12thc head corbel reset above it. The nave arcades are of four bays with single-stepped arches. The westernmost arch in the S arcade is round and plain. Other arches are pointed, with some sculptural decoration. There is a clerestory with round-headed windows in S wall of nave, but no N clerestory. Round-headed window in W wall of nave. Fortified W tower c.1200 with a W doorway of the same date. The building was restored in 1877 by G. E. Street.
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The present church, consisting of a chancel, nave, N aisle and a rectangular W tower the same width as the nave, is substantially 14thc in date and has an impressive hammerbeam roof. The font is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture.
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The seven South Elmham villages; St James, All Saints, St Nicholas, St Cross, St Margaret, St Michael and St Peter, to which may be added Homersfield, sometimes referred to as South Elmham St Mary, lie in a scattered group between Bungay and Halesworth in NE Suffolk, to the W of the Roman road known as Stone Street. North Elmham (the centre of the see until 1071) is over 30 miles away, to the NW of Norwich, and both apparently took their name from Aethelmaer (bishop of E Anglia 1047-1070) the landholder before the Conquest. This is not certain; Tricker suggests that the name meant villages where elm trees grew. The land here is flat, generally arable and sparsely populated; the villages rarely more than a few houses clustered around the church without shops or pubs. St Cross consists of a loose cluster of houses around a crossing of The Beck, a stream that runs into the Waveney. The church is on rising ground on the N side of the stream, with a moated hall site 500 yards to the E. It consists of nave, chancel and W tower; both nave and chancel being very tall. The aisleless nave is 12thc. with original doorways surviving on the N and S. The S is under a 14thc. -15thc. porch, and the N is badly damaged and blocked. The original nave windows are all gone, having been replaced by 15thc. windows at upper and lower levels (i.e. effectively a clerestory above the main lateral windows). The E gable of the nave is crow-stepped. The chancel arch is 19thc, but there are windows with intersecting tracery at the N and E of the chancel, suggesting a date ofc.1300. The S chancel windows and the brick S doorway are 15thc. The W tower is 14thc., of knapped flint with chequerwork on the buttresses similar to that at South Elmham St Peter. The parapet battlement is 15thc. and decorated with tracery patterns in flushwork, also similar to St Peter's. Construction is otherwise of flint with traces of render remaining on the nave and chancel, and knapped flint for the S porch. Work on reseating the nave and a W gallery were carried out by J. D. Botwright of Bungay in 1840-41. The two nave doorways are the only Romanesque features.