The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Lawrence (now)
Parish church
Barnwood is now a suburb of Gloucester and lies about 2 miles ESE of the city centre on the route of Ermine Street. The church and nearby manor house are about 300 metres S of Ermine Street on level ground. St Lawrence consists of a chancel with a N chapel, a nave with an E bell cote, a N aisle and a porch, and a W tower. Parts of the nave date from the 12thc; the church was restored in 1873 to the designs of Waller when the S wall of the nave was rebuilt. The Romanesque elements comprise the S doorway and the chancel arch, whilst the N doorway is a neo-Romanesque reconstruction.
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Weston-under-Penyard is a village 2 miles SE of Ross-on-Wye, on either side of the A40 to Gloucester. The church is on the S side of the village, on the outskirts of Penyard Park; formerly a medieval forest and chase, and now a conservation area. St Lawrence's has a 13thc chancel with a S vestry, a nave with a N aisle and a 12thc arcade, N and S doorways and a W tower. The N doorway, under a brick and timber porch, is on the village side and is the main entrance to the church. Romanesque features recorded here are the N nave arcade with its figural label stops, and the N doorway with the reset corbel heads that flank it. The S doorway is completely plain and is not recorded.
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Knodishall is a small village in E Suffolk, 3 miles E of Saxmundham and
3 miles from the coast. It comprises a few houses clustered near the church and
the hall site on gently falling land on the N side of the Hundred River valley.
It is now an outlier of Knodishall Common; a larger settlement a mile to the
SE. The flint and cobble church comprises nave, chancel
and W tower; the nave and chancel separately roofed by
similar in height and width and with no chancel arch
separating them. There are small modern vestries to N and S of the
chancel, and the S side of the church has brick
buttresses. The nave has no lateral doorways now; both having been blocked in
their lower parts to serve as windows. Entry is through the W tower doorway.
The blocked N doorway indicates a 12thc. date for the nave. The nave and
chancel windows, insofar as they are medieval, are of
various dates betweenc.1300 and the 16thc. The chancel contains the remains of a 14thc. piscina. The W tower can be dated toc.1460 by a
bequest from John Jenney and his wife, whose brass is inside the church. It has
diagonal buttresses and a plain parapet decorated with flushwork. In complete
contrast to the attractively muddled exterior, especially on the S side with
its mixed masonry, brick buttresses and jumble of windows of different dates
and styles, the interior is uncluttered, brightly whitewashed and very well lit
through the S windows. The only Romanesque work recorded here is the N doorway.
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St Lawrence's has a 12thc. W tower and nave to which a tall, hall-church-like S aisle has been added. The arcade is apparently 14thc., and its two E capitals are carved with elaborate naturalistic foliage. There are N and S nave doorways, the latter under a porch. The chancel is early 13thc. to judge from the priest's doorway, although the chancel arch is later. The tower, of stone rubble, has a plain 12thc. window on the ground storey, W face, and c.1200 bell-openings on all faces except the S. It was originally of three storeys, and the third has been heightened in ashlar and given a gabled roof. This was done in the 14thc., when new bell-openings were added on all faces except the N. The church was restored in 1853-55. The tower arch, tower bell-openings and font are included here.
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The village of Toot Baldon is off the beaten track, mostly away from main roads. It occupies a ridge of high ground E of the old Roman road that ran NS between Alchester (Bicester) and Dorchester. The church lies on a rise at the end of a long lane with views SE from the churchyard over fields towards Baldon brook. It is 13thc. in appearance with continuous nave and chancel, two narrow aisles, south transept, north vestry, steeply pitched tiled roof and low rubble walls with ashlar dressings. There is a double bellcote over the west gable, according to VCH, an early example. The whole building has been much restored and the S porch rebuilt. Romanesque features are the plain N nave doorway and scallop detailing on the N arcade W respond.
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St Lawrence's is a large ironstone church with a tall W tower, a
clerestoreyed and aisled nave with four-bay
arcades, and a chancel with N
and S chapels and a N vestry. The S chapel contains
the tomb of William Sponne (d.1448); the N now houses the organ. None of this
is earlier than the 13thc. (the chapel arcades); the
tower is Perpendicular and the windows 14thc.-15thc. Earlier material has been
reused, however. Two elaborately-carved 12thc. shafts
have been incorporated into the (largely 19thc.) chancel arch; three of the capitals of the nave
arcades are recycled 12thc. pieces; and several
chevron
voussoirs have been
incorporated into the masonry above the arcade in the S
aisle.
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Atwick is a small village in East Yorkshire near the North Sea coast. In 1876 the medieval church was entirely replaced. The present building consists of a nave and chancel in red brick. The only surviving medieval feature is a Romanesque font.
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The plan of this church is rather odd in that the W tower, 14thc., does not align with the nave arcades, which are primarily of the 13thc. The transepts, based on their windows, are of the 13thc. on the S and of the 14th/early 16thc. on the N, as is the chancel. The S arcade is one bay shorter to the W than the N and in place of this extra bay is a Romanesque S doorway. There are also two reset 12thc. fragments in the E wall of the vestry, one loose fragment in the nave, and a Transitional wall piscina in the chancel.
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North Wingfield is a village about four miles SE of Chesterfield. The church lies to the W of the village and is a structure of coursed squared sandstone and sandstone ashlar consisting of an aisled nave, a N transept, two N side chapels, a chancel with a N vestry, a S porch and an embattled W tower. The only original 12thc sector of the church is the N transept. Much of the current building is of the Perpendicular period; it was restored in 1880 by Richard Herbert Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow. Romanesque sculpture consists of the E window of the N transept, a reset head in the S aisle, and two incised tomb slabs in the S porch.
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Priddy is a scattered village high up on Mendip at over 200m, 4 mi W of Wells, Somerset. The settlement is focused on the large central green still used for sheep fairs in an upland limestone landscape quite bleak in winter and replete with prehistoric monuments. The church occupies an eminence N of the green. There is good space all around except to the N, so that the building may be fully appreciated from most angles. The present building has fabric of 13thc, 14thc and 15thc date, and was restored 1881-8. It is made of coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings. It has nave, chancel, N aisle, N and S transepts, S porch, N and S chancel chapels and a W tower. There is a Romanesque tub font.