The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Giles (now)
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Hawkridge is a small village on the southern edge of Exmoor, 4 miles NW of Dulverton and less than half a mile from the Devon border. It stands on the Hawkridge Ridge that overlooks the River Barle. The church, in the centre of the village, consists of nave with S porch, chancel and W tower. It is constructed of local random rubble with hamstone dressings, and diagnostic details are mostly 14thc (chancel) or later. The S doorway and font are the only Romanesque features, and the church was restored in 1878.
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Newington lies about 4.5 miles N of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. The church, together with rectory and manor house form the centre of a group of four hamlets. The church consists of a nave, chancel, north transept, west tower with spire and south porch. The two nave doorways are 12thc, whilst the N transept of about 1200 has a pointed arch with two unchamfered orders. The western corners of the nave have quoins with characteristic Romanesque angle rolls.
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The limestone ashlar and rubble church has chancel, a central tower with N vestry, and nave with S aisle and S porch. The nave is 12thc. as is the tower (Pevsner suggests c.1125 for the tower arch), although its upper parts are neo-Norman. The chancel is 19thc. The S arcade was added in the first half of the 13thc. The S porch was probably 15thc. originally, but was rebuilt in the 19thc. It houses a 12thc. doorway and the reset porch doorway is of c.1175. Romanesque sculpture is found on the tower arch, S porch doorway, S doorway, font, and on a carving set in a niche in the W wall of the nave. The church was altered and restored in 1826 and 1851 by J. H. Hakewill. The chancel was rebuilt in 1888 by C. E. Ponting, an event commemorated on the dated consecration stone.
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The church is simple in plan: it has a continuous nave and chancel, with bellcote. There is no vestry or porch, and a N aisle and N chapel which once existed are gone. The guide (Shorer, after 1994, 1) suggests the N aisle had been taken down in the sixteenth century. In the early 1840s, the Rev Charles Carr rebuilt the W wall, providing the present W doorway and bellcote. The N arcade was exposed when the plaster was removed during a restoration under G. G. Scott in 1908.
Inside the church there is a cylindrical font and the remains of a late-twelfth century arcade, while outside are various reset stones probably from the original doorway; the bellcote does not include twelfth-century corbels as sometimes said.
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Originally a single-celled church of rubble masonry, extended to the E in the 19thc. and to the N in the 20thc.
Pevsner says: 'small church, nave and chancel in one. The bell-cote imitation Norman. The nave may be Norman, but none of the details seem original. Chancel added 1889.' (1967, 171). See also Dixon 1933, 22-29; VCH Yorkshire III, 257, 262.
Little 12thc. carved stone survives, apart from a narrow, square-headed slit window in the S wall; there is some evidence for the position of an original S nave doorway. The chamfered arch at the W end of the nave, internally, may be reset. The decoration of the exterior W doorway is 19thc. as is that of the W window and bell-cote. There is a large fragment of a plain stone basin of unknown date beside the churchyard path.
There were two rebuilding programmes in the 19thc. The first was carried out after 1868, of which no records survive; the second followed around 1889. Borthwick Institute Faculty papers (Fac. 1889/7, plan HF 13/1) represent the ground plan of the 12thc. church, with eastward extension, post 1868 W doorway and E windows.
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The W tower, with a timber-framed upper stage, is medieval but the rest
of the church was heavily restored, or even rebuilt, in 1870.
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Risby is a small village in W Suffolk, just 3½ miles W of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. The church stands on the main street, E of the village centre. It is of flint and septaria and has a round W tower, a long unaisled nave and a chancel of the same height with a 19thc. N vestry. The tower has been called pre-Conquest, but its earliest diagnostic features are Romanesque; single high lancets with monolithic round heads to N and S and the tall, irregular tower arch and round-headed opening above it. The bell-stage is curiously fenestrated. It has two rows of three round-headed openings to the S, and two rows of two to the N. A single E bell-opening and a 14thc. W window are later insertions, and the battlemented parapet is later still. The nave must be 12thc. too, from the evidence of a blocked N window visible only on the interior. The chancel arch has 12thc. jambs with carved imposts, including two reused as plinths for its bases. The arch itself is steeply pointed and double chamfered, and dates from well into the 13thc., but 12thc. carved voussoirs have been reused on its E face. Also of the 13thc. are a lancet on the N nave wall, both nave doorways (the S under a 15thc. porch) and the S chancel doorway. Another major campaign took place in the first half of the 14thc., when the nave and chancel walls were heightened and buttresses added. Two-light reticulated or Y-tracery windows were inserted on both nave and chancel at this time, and the chancel was given a three-light reticulated E window. On the N nave wall are the remains of 13thc. and 14thc. wallpaintings. Romanesque features described below are the tower and chancel arches.
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St Giles consists of a chancel, and a nave with a N aisle and a S doorway under a porch. The S doorway dates the church to the late 12thc.; the chancel and its arch were rebuilt c.1300, and in the late 14thc. the nave windows were replaced and the E bay of the arcade was rebuilt and widened. The exterior walls are of pebble rubble and stones, except for the S nave wall, which is of rough ashlar. The roofs are covered in tiles of mixed colours, producing an unfortunate chalet-like effect. The church was restored in 1842 when the porch and north wall of the aisle were rebuilt, and a bell-cote built on the west gable. The west wall was restored and the porch rebuilt again in 1903, and the chancel was restored in 1905.
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Marston Montgomery is a small village in the SW of the county, in the Derbyshire Dales district, 6 miles S of Ashbourne and 13 miles W of Derby. The sandstone ashlar and rubble church is substantially 12thc throughout, and stands in the centre of the village. It consists of a nave with a W bellcote a N aisle and a S porch, and a chancel with a N vestry. It was restored in 1824 and again by H St Aubyn in 1877. Romanesque features described here are The S nave doorway, S chancel doorway, chancel arch and the font.
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The church consists of chancel, nave with S aisle and S porch, and W tower. The original 13thc. church comprised W tower, and nave and chancel in one. the S aisle was added in the 15thc. and the S porch is 19thc. The church was restored by J. D. Sedding in 1868 and by J. P. St Aubyn in 1878 (Pevsner 1989, 707; Historic England listing: 1333042) . The font is the only feature that could be 12thc.