The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St James the Great (now)
Parish church
St James's has an aisled nave with no clerestorey, chancel with north vestry and organ room, and a tower at the west end of the nave, south of the south aisle. The nave arcades are of five bays; the south arcade dating from the 13thc., and the north from 1880. The chancel is entirely by Woodyer (1865), and the tower is 14thc. in its lower parts with a Perpendicular bell-storey and battlemented parapet. The only Romanesque sculpture is on a late-12thc. doorway reset in the south nave aisle, protected by a wooden porch built against the east wall of the tower.
Parish church
Ruscombe is a village in the Thames Valley to the east of Twyford, between Reading and Maidenhead. It is close to the A4, but not so close that its village character is lost; in fact it lies on the minor road linking Twyford to Windsor, the B3024. The church stands in the village centre, and comprises a 12thc. flint chancel, brick nave and W tower of 1638-39. The only Romanesque features are a pillar piscina and the recut font.
Parish church
A nave and a long chancel in stone with, notably, the west tower, clerestory and aisles in 14th-15th-century brickwork. The church was made collegiate in 1347, which accounts for the length of the chancel; it has the effigy of Sir John de Sutton, the founder of the college (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 565). The church contains a late twelfth-century font and pillar piscina.
Parish church
The village of Radley stands in a loop of the Thames that forms the boundary between the traditional counties of Berkshire (to the W) and Oxford (to the E). The village is now on the NE outskirts of Abingdon, and at the northern edge of the village stands the church and Radley College. St James's church consists of a nave with a W gallery, a S aisle and S transept (housing the organ), a chancel and a W tower. The S aisle is separated from the nave by five bays of tall wooden piers that carry longitudinal arched braces instead of arches. It was restored and reseated by J. O. Scott in 1900-03. The font is 12thc., as is a corbel discovered during the 1900-03 restoration on the NE of the chancel arch.
Parish church
The church comprises a two-bay aisled nave with
a Victorian bell turret on the W gable and a high, two-bay
chancel. The nave, largely 13thc. in date, has been
truncated and heavily restored. The chancel arch is
Norman and the font may date from
c.1200.
Parish church
Small church of nave, chancel, S chapel and S aisle dating from early or
mid 12thc. (VCH). S chapel is 17thc. and S aisle and chancel 13thc. Earlier
parts built in grey lias limestone, later additions in liassic ironstone, both
varieties fairly local. The nave N wall contains a 12thc. doorway with a plain
round head and nook-shafts with scalloped capitals.
Parish church
The church was extensively restored in 1874-75, by Hopkins and Ewan Christian (Pevsner). The older parts are of sandstone rubble. It comprises a nave with a 12thc. N wall and a modern S aisle of four bays, a rebuilt 14thc. chancel, a later medieval W tower and a timber porch on stone foundations. There are a plain blocked doorway and a plain round-headed window on the N side of the nave. Romanesque sculpture is found in the reset S doorway.
Parish church
Tedstone Delamere is in the NE of the county, 3.5 miles NE of Bromyard and less than a mile from the Worcestershire border. It is a small settlement in the hilly pasture land on the edge of the Malvern Hills, with Tedstone Court and the church on its SE edge. The church consists of a chancel with a N vestry, and a long nave with a S porch and a timber W bell turret with spire. Much of this work was by G. G. Scott in 1856-57, who restored the entire church, rebuilt the chancel adding the N vestry, and added the S porch and the bell turret. The nave is Norman or perhaps earlier to judge from the long and short quoins at the W angles. There are round-headed lancets at the W end of the nave lateral walls. Construction is of sandstone rubble and the Norman window dressings are of tufa. The main font belongs to Scott's restoration, but there is a 12th - 13thc font alongside it, and this is the only feature described here.
Parish church
Claydon, meaning clayey hill, is the most northerly parish in Oxfordshire, and the small ironstone church stands at its highest point. It consists of chancel, nave, N aisle and N chapel, and a low W tower with a saddleback roof. There is no division between nave and chancel. The original church had a 12thc. nave and N aisle. The chancel has been so altered that its original date is difficult to determine. Most changes took place in the 13thc. when a N chapel was also added to it. The Romanesque features are the S nave doorway, much restored, and the nave and N aisle, separated by an arcade of three bays. The capitals of the two short piers are decorated on the nave side only.
Parish church, formerly chapel
A small church consisting of chancel and N
chapel, nave, N aisle and W tower. All late 15thc. except for the basically
Romanesque chancel.