The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Laurence (now)
Parish church
The church consists of nave, S porch, N aisle, N chapel, chancel and W tower, built of rubble limestone with some ashlar. The church and churchyard lie close to the angle of two roads, opposite a park.
Items of interest to the Corpus are the S doorway to the nave and a sedilia and piscina built into the S wall of the chancel; remnants of windows and a doorway survive in the same wall.
Parish church
Upton is a suburb of Slough, now in the Slough district of Berkshire but before the reforms of 1974 it was part of Buckinghamshire. The parish was formerly known as Upton cum Chalvey, and included both Chalvey and Slough, both small settlements. When the new civil parish of Slough was formed in 1894, Upton was a part of it. It forms the southern part of central Slough, between the centre and the M4.The church consists of a 12thc nave and chancel with a central tower. A separately roofed S aisle was added by Ferrey in 1850-51, with a vestry at its E end. Ferrrey also replaced the nave windows on the N side in a Romanesque style, replacing the 15thc windows that were there. The Romanesque church shows evidence of two phases. The first includes the tower and a shorter nave and chancel, all constructed using a large proportion of puddingstone. The nave had a N doorway and a window above it, both now blocked. When the church was extended E and W the doorway was moved a bay to the W. The chancel has a 2-bay rib vault belonging to the second phase. In addition to the N doorway the arcaded 12thc font, a pillar piscina in the chancel and the chancel vault remain to be recorded when access to the interior has been gained.
Parish church
Appleton is an attractive village in the north of the traditional county, 3 miles NW of the centre of Abingdon. The church stands in the village centre, alongside Appleton Manor (qv). It consists of a nave with a four-bay N aisle of similar width, a chancel with N chapel and a 15thc. W tower. The nave arcade belongs to the end of the 12thc., but the chancel arch is 19thc. and the chancel itself was rebuilt in the 16thc. The nave aisle and the chancel and its chapel have barrel vaults, which might be wooden as is the 18thc. four-bay arcade separating chancel and chapel. There are doorways with porches to N and S. There was a restoration in 1883 when a W gallery was taken out. Only the N arcade and the font are 12thc.
Parish church
Substantially a complete 12thc. church with a Perpendicular W tower, 18thc. chancel extension and a N aisle of 1913. The church is of local red sandstone except for the N aisle wall in the pinker Hollington stone. 12thc. features described below are the reset N nave doorway, the chancel arch and stones carved with nailhead reset to decorate a niche in the N aisle. Other 12thc. features not described are a plain S nave doorway, traces of a N nave window and a blocked S chancel window.
Parish church
Mainly Victorian (rebuilt in the 1850s). Nave and chancel with two 19thc. chapels, 14thc. N aisle, with a neo-Norman arcade. W tower, a re-building of 15thc. work and dated 1676. The only 12thc. work is found on the remodelled S doorway.
Parish church
Church Stretton is a market town approximately 13 miles S of Shrewsbury, in the Shropshire Hills. The town is sited in a pass or saddle point beween two great hills: the Long Mynd to the W and Caer Caradoc, site of an Iron Age hill fort, to the E. A Roman road runs through the town, using this strategically important pass for communications between Shrewsbury and Wroxeter and the southern centres of Hereford and Kenchester. The church is in the centre of the town, and consists of a nave with crossing, transepts and chancel. The nave is 12thc: N and S doorways, both decorated with sculpture. The N doorway is blocked up, the S now opens into the vestry. The crossing arches are Transitional, the transepts and chancel Early English and the crrossing tower Early English with a Perpendicular upper storey. 19thc arches open into the W aisles of N and S transepts (not described here). The N doorway was blocked up in 1818 (see Bilbey, below). A vestry was added in 1831. The church was extensively restored by S. Pauntney Smith between 1866 and 1868, when the transept aisles were added. Further restoration work was carried out in 1879, 1882and 1932.
Parish church, formerly Augustinian house
Blackmore is a village in the Brentwood district of Essex, 7 miles SW of Chelmsford and 5 miles N of Brentwood. The church is on the southern edge of the vilage. The present church is the remnant of a mid-12thc building that originally extended further to the E, and now consists of an aisled nave and chancel in one, with 4 main bays and shorter bays at E and W. In the present liturgical arrangement the chancel is of 1 main bay with a short bay to the E, and it is separated by steps from a nave consisting of 3 main bays and a shorter W bay. There is no chancel arch. The central vessel of the nave and the W bays of the aisles are 12thc. Both W aisle bays are screened off: the N as a kitchen and the S as a childrens' play area. The remainder of the N arcade is 14thc, while the S arcade was rebuilt with brick piers in the 16thc.
At the end of the 14thc the present timber tower and spire was begun, dated by dendrochronology which gives a felling date of 1397/98. The tower is of 3 storeys, capped with a slender broach spire. Construction of the remainder is of flint rubble with flint and red brick dressings. It was restored from 1895 by Frederichk Chancellor. Romanesque features described here are the W nave doorway, now under the tower, and the W bays of the nave aisles.
Parish church
Warborough is a village in the district of South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles N of Wallingford and 9 miles S of Oxford. The church stands in the centre of the villageand has a long nave and chancel in one with a S porch to the nave and a transeptal chapel alongside it that also contains a small organ. There is another organ room and a vestry on the N side of the chancel, The chancel has no chancel arch, only a screen. At the W end is a tower. Construction is of clunch rubble and flint with limestone dressings and flushwork on the tower. Nave and chancel are 13thc in origin. The transept is 14thc and the tower dates from 1666. The chancel was restored by Bodley and Garner in 1881. The only Romanesque feature is the lead font.