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St Paul (now)
Parish church
West Drayton is a village in the Bassetlaw district of the county, 4 miles S of Retford. The parish church consists of nave and chancel under a single roof with a 19thc N vestry, and a double bell cote on the W gable. It is built of coursed rubble and ashlar with some render. Features of 12thc and 15thc work are visible but the church was largely rebuilt in 1874. The only element of Romanesque sculpture is the S doorway.
Parish church
The small church was built as a chapel of ease to Beverley Minster in 1843-4. There had been no previous church in the village: a Tickton chapel mentioned in 1414 was probably that at Hull bridge, on the west side of the river (VCHER VI, 303). Pevsner and Neave say the church has an ‘octagonal font, 1844 and the circular bowl of a medieval font, possibly Norman’ (1995, 726).
Tickton church is in the parish of Beverley Minster. It operates a Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP) with the Methodist church in the village; this building is used for most of the worship.
Parish church
The church has a nave with a 13thc. south aisle extended west alongside the tower, no clerestorey, a chancel and west tower. The 13thc. nave arcade is three bays long. In the aisle is a late-12thc. doorway under a porch. The north doorway is later and has no porch. The tower is 13thc. in its lower parts, with early 14thc. bell-openings. Construction is of stone rubble. The only Romanesque element is the plain S doorway.
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The church has a complex building history, each phase of which has left traces in the fabric. The earliest discernable form is of an aisleless 12thc. nave (see the round-headed window scar in the N arcade wall above bay 2). The N wall was pierced for this four-bay
arcade towards the end of the century, and a N aisle added. The arcade has round-headed, unchamfered arches and quatrefoil
piers, but the lower parts of two of the piers are of a different form; one cylindrical and the other octagonal. Pevsner considers this to be a later encasing, designed to alter the arcade design but not completed. The alternative is that the more solid pier forms represent an earlier state of the arcade, but on balance Pevsner's explanation seems more likely, especially in view of the octagonal pier forms of the S arcade. This dates from after 1298, when a good deal of work was carried out (see VII History). The chancel has N and S chapels, extensions of the aisles, and the chancel arch and chapel arches belong to the same campaign as the S arcade, as do many of the Y-traceried windows and the S nave doorway. The slender W tower belongs to a similar or slightly later date in its lower storeys, up to the level of the reticulated bell-openings, but it was heightened in the 15thc. with a new bell-storey above, and a wooden spire (demolished c.1645). The nave has also been heightened, for the addition of a 16thc. clerestorey, but the earlier roofline is clearly seen on the W interior wall. The church was restored from 1884-86, with the loss of medieval wallpaintings.Construction is of ironstone rubble except for the Perpendicular addition to the tower, which is of grey ashlar. In 1999 a Parish Church Centre was added. This was sensitively conceived as a separate building to the W of the church. The N arcade is described below.
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Charlton Adam is one of a pair of villages (the other being Charlton Mackrell) lying some 3 miles E of Somerton on the N bank of the river Cary in south central Somerset. The Fosse Way, linking Bath with Axminster and Exeter, runs less than a mile to the E of the village. The church stands in the centre of the village, and is of local lias cut & squared with Hamstone dressings. It consists of a 2-bay chancel; a 3-bay nave with a 1-bay S chantry chapel and a S porch; and a W tower. The church is 14thc in origin, but dates largely from the 15thc. It was restored by H. Wilson in 1892. The only feature described here is the font.
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Nave and aisles of the 13thc. with Perpendicular clerestorey and doorways to N and S, the former with a
porch. Aisleless chancel with
N vestry, and a tall Perpendicular W tower without a
spire. Construction is of rough ashlar rubble and pebbles. The chancel was restored in 1858 and 1875, and in 1885–88
J. P. St Aubyn restored the entire church. As Pevsner comments, "the church
looks almost entirely — except for the Perp W tower — as if it
had been rebuilt". In the S wall of the tower are two reset chevron
voussoirs.
Parish church
Worminghall is a village in the east of central Buckinghamshire, 11 miles SW of Aylesbury near the Oxfordshire border, formed at this point by the river Thame. The village is in the wooded, rolling pasture-land of the Thame floodplain, and the church stands at the end of a lane at the southern edge of the village.
The church has a nave with a S porch, chancel with a 19thc N vestry and a W tower. The chancel arch is narrow and early 12thc., and alongside it is a round-headed squint. The S nave doorway is 12thc too, but later in date, while the 12thc N doorway was remade when the nave wall was rebuilt, reusing its 15thc windows, in 1847. On the S side are plain 13thc lancets, one a replacement, the other much restored. The chancel dates from the early 14thc and was given a new E window in the 15thc. The other chancel windows are 19thc replacements in a geometrical style. The tower is 15thc with diagonal W buttresses and a S stair. Its battlements have been replaced. Construction is of coursed rubble, except for the replaced N wall, of coursed squared blocks. Romanesque features recorded here are the N and S nave doorways, the chancel arch and the plain font.
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This small church, restored in 1951, has a single nave with exposed herringbone masonry in its E, W and N walls. Two blocked arches in the N wall indicate that an aisle has been added and subsequently demolished. The S porch bears a datestone, 1622. The Early English chancel, entered through an 11thc. arch with large imposts, appears to be very restored. There is a modern vestry on its S side. The font was given by St Olave's, Chichester in 1956.
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The church, built of tufa with ashlar facing both inside and out, comprises a 12thc. nave and chancel, both without aisles. The chancel was extended in the 14thc., and in 1825 the W nave wall was replaced by a brick tower. According to the church guide, the tufa comes from a deposit four miles to the E. The VCH records restorations to the fabric in 1864 and 1889. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S doorway of the nave, in the arcading above it and on the font. There are also two carved panels inset into the E nave wall inside, and two panels reset into the S nave wall outside.
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Most features of the church date from 1858 or from the 1867 restoration by Butterfield,
but it has a 14thc. S aisle (c.1320) and W tower (c.1380), and a S porch of 1500. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the incomplete,
re-set N doorway and on the font.