The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Helen (now)
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The Norman W tower is unbuttressed, and the windows ithere are plain and simple. Herringbone walling appears on the exterior, for example on the S wall of the nave. The font might be represented by a few inches of the rim of the present font. According to J. L. Pearson it was restored 1883-85.
Parish church
A cruciform church with a nave of three bays, aisles and chancel, with a square tower at the W end. The church is 13thc and later, but within the walls are fragments of an earlier Anglo-Saxon church, and also a small number of Romanesque features and fragments.
Parish church
Stillingfleet village lies either side of the Fleet, a stream running west to the Ouse.
The church has a nave and chancel on the Norman plan, a 13th-century north aisle to both (the continuation to the east end of which was a chapel and is now a vestry), a south chapel off the nave, and a west tower of early 13th-century date, its top is 16th-century. The plinth remains in situ on the south and east sides of the chancel according to Hodgson Fowler, showing that the chancel was square-ended; its profile is more complex than the usual chamfered and plain.
Romanesque sculpture in situ is only the south doorway and lengths of string course at the western end of the nave, but there is much elsewhere that has been reset. These remnants include string course on the chancel, and remains of what was probably the chancel arch; mostly re-used for the north doorway, reset in the vestry and (according to Hodgson Fowler) in the upper stage of the tower. The church is famous for its old door and the ironwork on it; this has now been remounted inside.
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Taking the S doorway as a reference, the nave with its three-bay N and S aisles was likely built in the 13th c. The chancel is probably late 13th c. and was rebuilt in 1839. The late 14th/ early 15th c. W tower was rebuilt by C. H. Fowler in 1901-1902. The clerestorey is of the 14/15th c. The church was restored in 1892 by Ewan Christian. The Romanesque features are the two fonts.
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Sandal Magna and its church is about two miles south of the centre of Wakefield. The basically-cruciform church has a 6-bay nave with aisles, a crossing tower; transepts and a choir with S aisle; attached rooms to N of chancel; and a S porch. Externally, the church appears late Gothic, in a churchyard having many grave monuments from the 17thc onward. The internal layout has been reordered so that spaces east of the crossing and transepts are function rooms, offices, etc. Sculpture is found in the bases of the piers of the crossing tower; on two fragmentary grave slabs and in reused stones in the 14thc N arcade.
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Welton is a large church with an aisled nave, transepts, and a chancel with a north chapel and vestry. The church was restored in 1862-3 by G. G. Scott: ‘a typical restoration which resulted in a virtually new church in Scott’s favourite Middle Pointed’ (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 739; Borthwick Institute faculty papers). There is a pond or lake below the church on the north and west, held up by a dam.
All that remains of Romanesque sculpture is one reset capital and a pillar below it.
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Austerfield is about a mile and a half NE of Bawtry. The small church lies off the village street in a narrow plot, up a gated track. This approach first reveals a W wall with two slit windows (lancets), massive buttresses, and a later bellcote; beyond are the red tiles and slates of the nave, S porch, N aisle and chancel.
There is an early 12thcnave doorway with a tympanum, a chancel arch of the same period, and a late 12thc N arcade. The arcade had been walled up, probably in the 14thc, but was rebuilt in 1879 ( Morris 1919); Pevsner (1967), 87 says it was rebuilt, ‘faithful to the original’, in 1898.
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Overton sits rather isolated at the end of the peninsula of Morecombe. The church is confusing, for a relatively enormous N 'transept' of 1830 (added to provide extra seating), disorientates the perception of the building. An apse (discovered in 1902 during restoration by Austin and Paley) and the original Norman fenstration were destroyed in 1771. The only Romanesque, and indeed medieval, fabric remaining is the impressive S doorway.
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The church is 13thc. cruciform, comprising nave, chancel, S transept and N transeptal tower of c. 1300. The church was restored in 1848 and 1870-72. The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Parish church
Demolished and rebuilt in 1828. A painting and an engraving made shortly before that date (Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a.65, No.34; Bodl. G.A. Oxon.a.76 f.3) show that there were plain, round-headed doorways in both the N and S walls of the nave, the former with continuous chamfers or rolls and a label. The font is the only Romanesque feature.