The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Leonard (now)
Parish church
Scorborough is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about 4 miles N of Beverley. The church is by J. L. Pearson, built 1857-1859 to replace what Pevsner described as ‘a mean brick building’ (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 671). Quiney considered it ‘among the great monuments of Victorian church building, not just in the East Riding, but in England as a whole.’ (Quiney, 1984, 29) It has a nave and chancel, and a large W tower. Outside is a font standing on what was once a pier base.
Parish church
Built of lias rubble with dressings of Broadway stone ashlar. 15thc. W tower, ashlar-faced, with pinnacles. Nave, N and S aisles, N and S transepts. It stands on a low mound in the centre of the old part of the village. Sculpture ofc.1200 is found in the nave arcade capitals, and there is a plain font and a chip-carved stone set into a windowsill in the S transept.
Parish church
The church comprises an apsidal chancel, nave with W bellcote, and N porch. It is
substantially 12thc., the timber bellcote is 19thc. and the brick N porch 18thc. The
walls are coursed rubble.The plain, round-headed N (blocked) and S nave doorways are
12thc. The S doorway has chamfered imposts. Remains of three
round-headed, splayed windows are found on the E, S and N walls of the chancel, and
in the N wall of the nave. Romanesque sculpture is found on the chancel arch.
Parish church
Seaford church has a W tower, an aisled nave with two-bay
arcades and a S porch, a non-projecting transept, a large chancel with a polygonal end and a N chapel. The Perp tower
seems to have been erected within the W bay of a Norman
nave, but the W doorway is neo-Norman rather than Norman. Herringbone masonry suggests that the N aisle is of Norman
origin, but the present two-bay nave arcades, clerestoreys and corbel
tables appear to date from the early 13thc. One capital in the S
arcade is historiated, with the Baptism of Christ, the
Harrowing of Hell, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Massacre of the Innocents, and
the Crucifixion. The mid-Victorian 'transepts' and chancel were designed by John Billing and erected in
1861-62.
Parish church
Wixoe is a village in the Stour Valley on the Essex border E of
Haverhill. St Leonard's has an aisleless nave and chancel in one, sharing a single roof and with no
chancel arch. The nave walls are slightly thicker than
the chancel (visible on the interior by a ridge in the
wall at the position of the chancel step), and the
mortar used in the flint cladding is yellower in the nave. There is a 19thc.
vestry on the N side of the chancel. The nave has a modern timber west bell
turret. The N and S nave doorways are 12thc., the N
blocked and overgrown; the S protected by a 19thc. timber porch. The S chancel doorway is
19thc.
Parish church
The original church was rebuilt between 1866 and 1876 to designs by T. H. Wyatt. The only Romanesque feature is the reused font bowl.
Parish church
The church dated from the 12th and 14thc. but was largely rebuilt in 1860. The only 12thc. carving is on the lintel of the blocked north doorway and an Agnus Dei inside above the south door.
Parish church
Built in faced sandstone rubble, the tower of sandstone ashlar. Nave with N and S aisles, chancel, N chapel and W tower. Restoration in 1885. The nave and W half of the chancel were built in the early part of the 12thc., the chancel being extended to its present length, and the nave aisles added in the 13thc. The only 12thc. sculpture is a relief set into the S wall inside, and the font.
Parish church
Linley is in farmland in the E of the county, 4 miles NW of Bridgnorth and a similar distance E of Much Wenlock. It consists of the Hall, a lodge and the church, reached via an unmade road from the Hall. Its woodland setting on steeply rising ground is attractive but can make photography difficult. The church consists of a simple nave and chancel with an elaborate W tower, all in local sandstone rubble. Features described here are the bell-openings and corbel tables of the tower (there is no E corbel table), N and S nave doorways, a massive tower arch, a simple chancel arch and a carved font. The church was restored in 1858 by Arthur Blomfield.
Parish church
Five-bay aisled nave with clerestorey and S doorway under a 15thc. porch, aisleless chancel with N
vestry of 1900, W tower. The earliest parts are 12thc.
(the lower storey of the tower). For the rest, the elaborate S doorway is early
13thc. in its structure but 12thc. in its decorative repertoire. This is
described below, but such other early 13thc. features as the tower arch and
nave arcades fall outside the scope of the CRSBI. The
church is of mixed flint, pebble and stone, except for the N aisle, of brick,
which was restored in 1912. Other restorations took place in 1897 and 1899.