The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St John the Baptist (now)
Parish church
The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles and a S porch, and W tower. The structure is predominantly Perpendicular. The N aisle was rebuilt in Perpendicular style by G. G. Scott n 1874. The fabric is red sandstone and granite. The font may have originally been 12thc., recut at a later date, and two carved stones reused as bases on the S porch doorway may also be of 12thc. date.
Parish church
St John's is a flint church with a tall W tower and an aisleless nave and chancel forming a single space within, but separately roofed from the outside. The nave and chancel date fromc.1200 or slightly later, to judge from the N and S nave doorways and plain lancets in the N wall of the chancel and both walls of the nave. The S doorway is protected by a 16thc. brick porch. The square W tower is Perpendicular with diagonal buttresses decorated with simple flushwork. It is patched with bricks and underwent a major restoration in 1983. The nave walls are rendered. The nave doorways are described below, although they are likely to date from the 13thc. rather than the 12thc.
Parish church
Hornton is in NE Oxfordshire, 3 miles NW of Banbury. The church was originally built in the late 12thc with ironstone rubble, and comprised a chancel, nave and a N aisle. It now has a largely 14thc exterior, resulting from the rebuilding and alterations of the next two centuries. The chancel was rebuilt twice in the 13thc and 14thc. The lengthening of the nave, the addition of a clerestorey, of a S aisle and a N chapel took place in the 14thc. The tower was added in the 15thc. The church went through a stage of chronic disrepair in the late 19thc and until 1916. Structural evidence of this is still visible on the S nave clerestory wall. The church interior is well known for its wall paintings, but it also has several remaining Romanesque features: corbels in the chancel, a transitional N nave arcade with round piers and scallop capitals, and a font with cable and intersecting arcading.
Parish church
The church has a four-bay nave with a S aisle of
pebbles, a W bell turret of wood and a brick
chancel. The S arcade and S
doorway are 13thc., but the nave is late 12c, as indicated by the plain N
doorway. The clerestorey is post-medieval, with plain
square-headed windows. The chancel and S
porch are modern.
Parish church
Biddisham lies on the Somerset Levels (Middle Lias) 1½ miles south of Crook Peak, which prominent hill flanks a cutting made by the Lox Yeo river (and exploited by the M5) through the carboniferous limestone of the Mendip Hills. The hamlet of Biddisham is strung along a lane leading N from the A38 trunk road, a mile to the east of the M5 and six miles SE of Weston-super-Mare. The lane, a cul-de-sac, leads up to the present river Axe. However, the former course of that river (before medieval diversions effected mainly by the church to improve economic exploitation of its land) came within 500 yards to the NW of Biddisham church and ran northwards alongside the lane. The church is adjacent to the manor farm and consists of a two-bay nave with a S porch, two-bay chancel and a west tower. Construction is of squared rubble with some render remaining at the base of the tower. The church, including the lower part of the tower is basically 13thc in date. This lower tower leans markedly to the W, while the added or rebuilt upper part is more or less vertical. The rebuilding was done in the 15thc along with other work; there was a major restoration c.1860 and general repairs were carried out under the direction of G. C. Beech and Partners of Wells in 1961-63. The Romanesque work described here consists of the font and label stops in the form of heads reused on the exterior of a chancel window.
Parish church
Wivelsfield church comprises a nave (probablyc.1100, extended to
the W in 14thc.) with N and S aisles (1869, and 13thc. rebuiltc.1500,
respectively), a tower at the W end of the S aisle (c.1500), a S chapel
(c.1300) and square chancel (13thc., lengthened
in 1869). The N doorway is reset.
Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a N aisle of the 12thc. and a S aisle with clerestorey ofc.1300, and a 12thc. chancel. There is also a two-part crypt, rectangular under the chancel, and octagonal under the nave, both Romanesque. The fabric is of red Kenilworth-type sandstone, unless otherwise stated. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway, which was resetc.1350 and is now protected by a porch, in the windows of the chancel both inside and out; on the corbel tables and buttresses of the chancel; in the chancel arch and the N nave arcade, and in the crypt.
Parish church
The nave of the church has 4 bays of early 13th-century N arcade with double chamfered round arches. It has circular piers with octagonal, chamfered imposts, and capitals decorated with trumpet scallops with stiff-leaf foliage. However, the tall form of the arcades suggests that a dramatic transformation took place in the 15th or 16th century. Buckler illustrated these arcades in the early 19th century (Vol. VIII, plate 59). In c1300 the west tower was added. The only 12th century fabric surviving is a font bowl.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave, N and S
aisles, W tower and S porch. The reset S doorway is
all that survives from the 12thc.
Parish church
Yarkhill is 6 miles E of the centre of Hereford, and lies on the river Frome. The compact little village is on rising ground on the N bank of the river, among woodland and pasture. The church is on the eastern edge of the village centre, and to the S, by the river, is a moated site. St John’s is a stone church with nave, chancel and W tower. The S nave doorway is of c.1200, and the tower arch and the lower storey of the tower are of a similar date. The upper storey of the tower 15thc., probably of 1466, and has a battlemented parapet and a modern tiled pyramid roof. In a major restoration of 1862 by C. R. Ainslie and T. Blashill of London, the church was practically rebuilt except for the tower and the chancel walls, and a S porch and N chancel vestry added. The church possesses three fonts: a 12thc. one with a scalloped bowl; a 13thc. one, and a 17thc. one with a fluted bowl. It also contains two small mortars of uncertain date, probably post-Medieval. The S doorway, tower arch and the oldest font are described here.