The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Giles (now)
Parish church
Noke is a small hamlet 5 miles NE of Oxford and 1 mile SE of Islip. The present church is a small stone building, much restored, dating mainly from the 13thc. It comprises a 13thc. chancel, nave and S porch, and a 19thc. bell turret. It has a plain tapered limestone font of indeterminate age.
Parish church
Bletchingdon is located in N Oxfordshire, midway between Oxford and Bicester. The present church has a 13thc. chancel and a Perpendicular nave and W tower. It was much restored in the 19thc. There is evidence of earlier work in the blocked round-headed arch of a lancet-sized window on the N side of the chancel, and the Romanesque stone fragment of star-in-square carving, probably from a lintel, mounted on the outside of the S wall of the nave.
Parish church
A very small, rendered parish church composed of an unaisled nave with a timber bell-cote over the W end and a small square-ended chancel. There are traces of opposing N and S doorways in the nave walls although the church is now entered through a W doorway.
Parish church
The present church is essentially of late medieval date; there is no evidence for a church on the site before the 12th century. A Romanesque doorway survived as the N nave entrance until 1797/8 but is now known only from an engraving. Just one carved stone, a scallop capital, appears to have survived from the first church. Another stone, sculpted with a head and leaves, has been by some attributed to the 12th-century, but it is actually of later date. It was found in 1981 during excavations in the S choir aisle, in the foundations under the E wall. A head boss at the W end of the choir vault has also occasionally been mentioned, but again it is of later medieval date. Several changes to the church and various restorations were undertaken after the medieval period, culminating with a major re-organisation of the interior in the years 1872-83 and the addition of the Thistle Chapel in 1910-11.
Parish church
Farlow is a small village in the south of the county, 8 miles NE of Ludlow and about 14 miles W of Kidderminster in neighbouring Worcestershire. The present building was constructed in 1857-8 by Robert Griffiths in yellow sandstone but, according to Cranage (1901-12), the church at Farlow was originally a chapel of Stottesdon. It consists of a single-aisled structure with a N vestry and a S porch. The only Romanesque features are the reset 12thc S doorway and a plain font from the old church.
Parish church
A small church with plastered E Norman nave, and 13thc. chancel. The only Romanesque feature is the blocked N doorway, visible only on the outside.
Parish church
This church was virtually rebuilt by GE Street or his firm in 1874-87.
It now comprises a three-bay aisled nave and a
square-ended chancel with an organ chamber on its N
side, and a chapel on it S. All that was retained of the medieval (largely late
12thc.) church were the nave and chapel arcades.
Parish church
Goxhill was once a village but is now reduced to a farmhouse and buildings. The medieval church was largely rebuilt in 1786, the tower in 1817, the church again rebuilt in 1840, and the tower both repaired in 1860 and more recently. It is ‘a plain late Georgian building with Gothick details’ (Pevsner & Neave 1995). It has nave, chancel and W tower.
There is a restored cylindrical font ‘half renewed’. There are no other Romanesque remains.
Parish church
The church has a chancel dating from the 13thc. and a 15thc. tower. However, its appearance is predominantly the result of a major restoration in 1863-4 by T.H. Wyatt. The font bowl dates from the 12thc.
Parish church
Great Easton is a village in the W of the county, in the wooded arable farmland on the N side of the A120 between Bishop’s Stortford and Braintree, and close to the B184 that links Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow. The village consists of scattered dwellings along a minor road, with the church more or less in the centre. It has an unaisled spacious 12thc nave with a S doorway under a porch, a blocked N doorway, and a short brick bell tower over the W bays. This was originally built as a bell-turret c.1800, and in 1928 the turret was replaced by the present structure by F. W. Chancellor. The lateral walls of the E half of the nave are much thicker than those of the W half. The chancel is of the 13thc, with a triplet window in the E wall. The nave is cement rendered and the chancel is flint faced. The S doorway is the only Romanesque feature recorded here.