The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Laurence (now)
Parish church
Corringham is a parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, sited 3 miles E of Gainsborough. The church has a W tower originally of the late 11thc /early 12thc but heavily restored by Bodley and Garner in the early 1880s. The nave, with an added E bay, and the chancel with its N chapel are from the 13thc; the clerestory was added c1450. The impressive W tower arch into the nave and the N arcade of the nave are Romanesque.
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Tidmarsh is a village 5 miles west of the centre of Reading, in the valley of the river Pang. It is built around a crossroads on the A340 road from Pangbourne to Theale, and the church stands on the main road. It consists of a single nave with 13thc. polygonal apse and timber W bell turret with shingled pyramidal roof. Opposed N and S nave doorways, the S richly carved and described below, the N later, not included and now enclosed in a vestry. The arcaded font is also included.
Parish church
The church consists of a nave, S aisle, S transept, chancel and a tower at the W end of the nave. The key Norman features are the S arcade, a window opening on the S wall of the nave and some loose fragments found at the end of the S aisle.
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West Challow is a village at the foot of the Berkshire Downs, in the Vale of White Horse district of the county, 2 miles W of Wantage. The village is on Childrey Brook, a tributary of the River Ock. The church is on the S edge of the village centre, and has a 12thc nave and a 15thc chancel and porch and the windows in the east, north and south walls are original. The church was reseated and repaired in 1891, according to a notice in the porch. Romanesque work is found on the N doorway and the font.
Parish church
Built of rubble throughout with squared stone dressings. Nave and chancel and W tower. Restoration, including saddleback top of tower by Scott in 1885. 12thc. sculpture is found in the drastically remodelled S doorway, the font base and a window-head reset inside the nave.
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St Laurence's is in the centre of Reading, originally standing beween the W gate of the Abbey and the Hospitium of St John. It now faces Friar St with the Town Hall to the N. It consists of a nave with a N aisle only, a chancel with a N chapel and a 16thc. W tower. Construction is of flint. The original church on the site may have been early 12thc., but according to VCH all that remains standing of this is the S nave wall, the lower part of the tower S wall and a window reset in the SW of the nave. The foundation of the Hospitium of St John in 1196 may have acted as a spur to enlarge the church by demolishing the old tower to extend the nave, and at the same time new N and S doorways were added. The S is still in place, and fragments from the N are set in a blocked arch in the N nave aisle. The N aisle itself and the chancel chapel apparently followed in the 13thc. The N arcade was rebuilt in 1522, and the church was repaired and reseated by Joseph Morris of Reading in 1867-69. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the S nave doorway and in a blocked arch in the N aisle wall, but more interesting is the folly in the churchyard NE of the church, centred on the former W window of St Laurence's but also including carved stones from the Reading Abbey site.
Parish church
The church is aisleless with a 15thc. W tower and an essentially 12thc. nave and chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found on N and S doorways, on two windows in the chancel and one in the nave, and on the chancel arch and font.
Parish church
Telscombe comprises a late 12thc. W tower and a 12thc. nave and
chancel, respectively having a N aisle and N chapel.
The VCH describes the chancel arch as 'a pseudo-Norman monstrosity'. The vestry
is on the N side of the N aisle. The font is 13thc. and has been compared with
that of nearby Piddinghoe. The church was restored in 1903 and 1922.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel with S chapel, nave with N and S aisles,
S porch and clerestorey, and W tower. The earliest surviving features are the
two-bay 12thc. N and S arcades (the S extended later in the middle ages into
the chancel to allow better access to the S chapel). A plain 12thc. blocked,
round-headed window survives in the W wall of the N aisle. The clerestory is
early 15thc. and the tower c.1200. The upper part of the tower and
possibly the outer walls of the aisles were rebuilt in the 15thc. The 14thc.
chancel was rebuilt in the early 15thc. and substantially restored after a fire
in 1969. The S chapel is 14thc. and the S porch is 18thc. 12thc. sculpture is
found on the capitals and arches of the N and S arcades. The church is
constructed of flint rubble and Totternhoe stone.
Parish church
The church consists of a chancel with vestry on the N, a nave, N aisle, W tower and S porch. The nave has a late 12th-century, four-bay, N arcade with a mixture of trumpet scallops and a moulded capital.