The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St John the Baptist (now)
Ruined parish church
Mongewell is a small village in the parish of Crowmarsh Gifford on the east bank of the river Thames. The church, which is built of flint with stone dressings, consists of a nave, chancel and west tower. It dates from the 12thc and was remodelled in the picturesque Gothick style for Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, in 1791.The church was restored under the direction of Lewis Wyatt in 1880. The nave is now roofless and the church is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Two12thc corbels have been reset on either side of the 19thc chancel arch.
Hospital, former
Wilton is a civil parish about 3 miles NW of Salisbury standing at confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder. Incorporated into the buildings around St John’s Square are the remains of a hospital founded in the late 12thc. Although several alterations and restorations were carried out from the 16thc, some remains of the medieval structures have survived. These includes a circular pier with what may be the remains of a scalloped capital.
Parish church
South Witham is a village about 11 miles S of Grantham. The church lies to the S of the village and consists of a small cruciform building with a double bellcote on the W rather than a tower. The nave has N and S aisles with three-bay arcades: that on the N is late 12thc and the S arcade is of the early 13thc. The S transept is early 14thc and the N transept and S doorway are later 14th/15thc. The chancel was built in 1930 by Wilfred Bond on the medieval foundations of the earlier chancel. The N arcade of the nave is the only surviving Romanesque feature of the building.
Parish church
The nave of the church has four-bay, pointed arcades of the end of the 12th or early 13thc. In the late 13th or early 14thc. the chancel was rebuilt and a south chapel was added to it in 1861 by G.E. Street. The tower is Perpendicular in style. The church was restored in 1889-90 by C.E. Ponting.
Parish church
St John the Baptist in Stockton has a chancel with a date of 1840 on the exterior. The nave, however, has two-bay arcades dating from the 12th century, a 15th century clerestory and a 19th century roof. The nave arcades were extended eastwards in the 14th century and the nave was restored in 1879. The lower part of the west tower may also date from the 12th century. The choir was built in the late Middle Ages and in the 19th century. The font may also be 12th century.
Parish church
Built of red sandstone ashlar, the large church consists of a nave and chancel, both with N and S aisles, a W tower with spire, a porch and two vestries off the N side of the chancel. Restorations were carried out to the scheme of G.G. Scott in 1858-59. Only the E respond and the adjacent pier of the N nave arcade now bear Romanesque sculpture; this work was restored with the rest of the church in 1858-9.
Parish church
A cruciform, aisleless 13thc. church with a shallow N transept, W tower of c.1500 and N and S porches. A vestry abuts the N wall of the chancel. The chancel was extended c.1400. The church was restored in 1883-4 and the tower was restored in 1897, The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Parish church
A large church of creamy limestone, on a hill, overlooking a wide plain. Stone W tower in stages, with parapet; battlemented nave. A rectangular church with a S chapel addition and N vestry as a smaller addition. The earliest structures of the building were built in the 12thc; Romanesque sculptural remains are abundant and consist of a N and S doorway, a round-headed window visible in the exterior wall of the chancel, windows at W end of nave and tower, N and S porches, nave and S aisle arcades, string courses, and a piscina. Faculty papers in the Borthwick Institute, Fac. 1868/12, include a plan but it is extremely fragile and was not opened.
Parish church
Orcop is a small dispersed village in the S of the county, 8 miles S of Hereford and a similar distance W of Ross-on-Wye. It is in a hilly, mixed farming district, and Orcop itself consists of little more than the church and the remains of a motte and bailey nearby. It is at the foot of Orcop Hill whose summit, a mile NW of the church, rises to a height of 293m. Orcop Hill is also the name of the larger village on its eastern slopes. Orcop church, however, stands in isolation except for a few houses. It consists of chancel with a N vestry, nave with a N aisle and a S porch, and a W tower, timber clad in its upper part and carrying a timber bell stage with a short spire. None of the fabric is obviously Romanesque: the aisle is 13thc; the chancel of c.1300; the nave windows indicate a rebuilding in the 14thc, and the tower perhaps 16thc in origin, but the church was comprehensively restored by Thomas Nicholson in 1860-61. The only Romanesque sculpture here is a pillar piscina bowl.
Parish church
St John the Baptist has a chancel that was built in the late 13th or early 14th century, although its fenestration mostly dates from the 19th century. The north transept and the north porch date from the first half of the 13th century. The nave was rebuilt in the late 14th century, the west wall of the west tower bearing the roofline of the earlier nave. The base of the central tower dates from c1200 and has chamfered pointed arches and trumpet scallop capitals. However, earlier than this are four fragments of Romanesque carving in the west and north walls of the nave.