The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Lawrence (now)
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Bapchild is a village on the old A2 about 1 mile SE of Sittingbourne. The church of St Lawrence has a nave and chancel with N aisle and chapel, a S tower with spire, and a S porch. Romanesque features include the nave arcade and N chapel. Note that the S tower has a blocked round-headed arch and a round-headed window with later tracery, suggesting that the lower level at least is of Romanesque date, but is entirely plain and contains no sculpture.
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Whitwell is a village in the Bolsover district of NE Derbyshire, 10 miles E of Chesterfield but only 4 miles SW of Worksop, over the border in Nottinghamshire. The church stands on the NW edge of the village and has a nave with 12thc 4-bay arcades, a 12thc clerestorey and corbel tables. Gabled transepts were added to the 1st bay on each side in the 1st half of the 14thc. and the S porch is of a similar date. The chancel arch is 12thc work, and the chancel also has a corbel table surviving on the N side. The S corbels were lost when the roof level was raised in the 14thc. The chancel also has a 2-storey N vestry or treasury. The W tower is 12thc in its lower storeys and retains its original W doorway.
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Old Bradwell was described in 1927 as a scattered village with the church at its southern end and the Manor Farm a little to the north (VCH). Nowadays most of the village has been absorbed by the building of Milton Keynes, but the church stands on the edge of the residential area in North Loughton Valley Park, a long green area following the line of the Loughton Brook. The church consists of a nave with a S aisle and N porch, a chancel and a saddleback W tower with a modern annexe on the N side of it. The oldest parts are late -12thc or early-13thc, and the church was heavily restored in 1868 and by E.Swinfen Harris in 1903. Construction is of limestone rubble with ashlar facings. The only Romanesque sculpture is in the S arcade.
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South Cove is 1.5 miles from the sea, in the low arable lands between Southwold and Lowestoft. It hardly qualifies as a village, consisting as it does of the church and Church Farm alongside, with a cottage or two. Its parishioners were traditionally farm workers and fishermen. St Lawrence's church is of flint with a nave and chancel of equal width covered by a single thatched roof, and a tall W tower. The nave N and S doorways are 12thc., the S protected by a tiny 19thc. porch of knapped flint. The nave is earlier than this, however; the removal of 19thc. render in 1995 revealed a vertical joint at the NE angle of the nave, where it turned to meet a chancel that was originally narrower. This angle was of the large, uncut stones (erratics) typical of pre-Conquest masonry. The present chancel apparently dates from the mid-13thc. (piscina) and its Y-tracery windows were added c.1300. Some of the nave windows were replaced at that period too, and the other nave windows were renewed in the 15thc. There is no chancel arch. The tower is 14thc. and has diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet, both decorated with flushwork. The W window is 15thc. The W bell-opening has been replaced with a plain arched opening with a single central mullion. Romanesque sculpture survives in the two nave doorways.
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Primarily a 15thc. church of nave, side aisles, W tower and chancel. The font is Romanesque.
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A small church with chancel, nave, N and S aisles, a small sacristy entered from N aisle, W tower with spire and N, S and W doorways. The N arcade is 12thc. and a plain font may also date from this period. The Church is built of local liassic ironstone, probably from Hornton quarries nearby.
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St Lawrence's has a W tower, an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with three-bay arcades of c.1180 and a shorter fourth bay on either side at the E end, dating from Bodley and Garner's restoration of 1880-83. The 14thc. chancel was extended eastward in the 15thc. It has a 16thc. N chapel with an organ loft and vestry and a large S chapel. The 1880s restoration is everywhere apparent, even in the arcades (see below) but the 18thc. porches were left alone. Construction is of reddish sandstone. 12thc. stones are reset in the interior S wall of the tower.
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Eyam is a village best known for its actions in the plague of 1665 designed to prevent the spread of the disease outside the village. It is in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, in the Peak District National Park, 10 miles NE of Chesterfield. The church, in the village centre, consists of a nave, N and S aisles, a 13thc chancel and a 15thc W tower. The N aisle and chancel were restored in 1868-9 and the S aisle and porch rebuilt in 1882-3. There is an important Anglo-Saxon cross in the churchyard. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
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Great Waltham is a large village set in arable farmland in the south of the county, 4 miles N of Chelmsford. The church is in the village centre, and is substantially of the 12thc but almost entirely rebuilt. The walls are of flint and pebble-rubble, with some pieces of puddingstone and freestone in the W tower; the dressings are partly of limestone and partly of Roman and later brick. It consists of a broad, aisled nave (at 32 feet the widest medieval nave in Essex) with clerestoreys and 4-bay arcades, roofed with alternate tie beam and hammerbeam trusses. The S aisle is 14thc, rebuilt in the 16thc, and the N was added by F. W. Chancellor in 1874-75. There is a 16thc S porch (restored in the 19thc). The chancel has signs of blocked 12thc windows in the E wall, but it was rebuilt in the late 14thc or 15thc, again in 1866-63 by Chancellor and again in the 1890s by A. Y. Nutt. It has a N vestry dating from 1890. The W tower is the earliest standing feature, dating from the 12thc but the upper part rebuilt with a new battlemented parapet by Nutt in 1892. It has a late 12thc tower arch and plain round-headed lancets in the lowest storey of the N and S walls. Finally the most striking Romanesque feature is a Purbeck font in the S porch.
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‘A surprisingly large, dominating cruciform church with a crossing tower so big and proud that it might stand in Somerset’ - Pevsner 1967, 254.
The church is cruciform with a central tower, an aisled nave and chapels flanking the chancel.
The church has a round-headed, late twelfth-century western doorway, a west facade with the remains of walling, and windows on both north and south aisles. There is a doorway on the south aisle, and walling of field-picked glacial rubble mixed with blocks of limestone, with facings and a doorway of Magnesian limestone. There are records of a fire in 1760s and a restoration in 1870s.
On the visit in 2002, windows had been broken and we took pictures of the wooden chests near the windows. Two of them 'could easily be Romanesque' according to a letter from Prof. E. B. Hohler (Norway). The chest shaped like a coffin is of bog-oak, which is found in Thorne Moors.