The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Paul (now)
Parish church
The church at Glasshoughton is a modern 1902 building in red brick. A medieval font from Castleford can be found in the plain interior, set in the N aisle near the E end. The font is recorded as coming from All Saints church at Castleford. The beginnings of the medieval church at Castleford are ancient, and its position related to the lines of the late 1stc. Roman fort, but nothing Romanesque now survives there. (Ryder 1993, 9, 145)
Parish church
Great Missenden is a village towards the S of the county, 4 miles NW of Amersham in theChiltern hills. The village extends for 2 miles along the valley of the river Misbourne; the High Street with the station and most of the residential area being on the W bank, while the church stands on the steeply-rising opposite bank, beyond the A413 Aylesbury to Amersham road that bypasses the village on its E side. The church stands in wooded land with Rook Wood some 300 yards to the S, and in the wood is Rook Wood Castle, a medieval enclosure with a ditch and bank that may have been a timber castle, and was occupied in the 12thc (pottery finds). The site of Missenden Abbey is 0.3 mile S of the church.
The church has an aisled nave with 4-bay 14thc arcades and a 15thc clerestory. The S aisle is wider than the N, and both aisles have 15thc windows. The E nave aisle bays on either side is in fact a transept, which dates from the 14thc, with one flowing tracery window in the S transept, two windows of c.1300 in the N transept, and other windows dating from the 15thc. The chancel is 14thc, with an elaborate wall arcade on the S and life-sized figures of St Peter andSt Paulin niches on the E wall. To the N of the chancel is a 19thc vestry. The embattled W tower has been broadened to the S, giving it a markedly rectangular plan. Construction is of small flints, and the nave clerestory and chancel walls are mortar rendered. The only Romanesque feature is the font, of the Aylesbury type.
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Maperton is a village in the South Somerset district of the county, 3 miles SW of Wincanton, on the S side of the A303 trunk road. The village is clustered around the junction of the three minor roads, with the church at its centre. The church consists of a three-bay chancel, a four-bay nave with a S porch, small N and S transepts, and a W tower. The tower is late 15thc, and the remainder was rebuilt in 1869. Construction is of local stone cut and squared, with Doulting or Ham stone dressings. The font is Romanesque, as are a carved head reset in the porch and another in the tower. The worn lower stone of a niche in the porch is also included here, although a Romanesque date is by no means secure.
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Mainly Victorian chancel and nave, Perpendicular W tower and late 12thc. S arcade. The arcade is of a cream Cotswold limestone.
Parish church
The original nave and chancel church is of c.1150 and has aisles of 1180, of which two bays survive in each. The church has been extended or adapted over time and now includes an extended chancel, vestry, N chapel, N and S aisles, S porch and W tower.
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Dinton is in central Buckinghamshire, 3.5 miles SW of Aylesbury. The church and Dinton Hall are detached from the rest of the village, which is 0.5 mile to the SW. The church is of rubble and consists of a nave with S aisle and S porch, chancel and W tower. The 3-bay chancel is 13thc. with lancet windows in the side walls and a triple lancet (of 1868) in the E wall. The chancel arch and the blocked S priest's doorway are also 13thc. The 12thc. S nave doorway, reset in the aisle and protected by a 13thc. porch, is the oldest feature of the church, with a justly-famous tympanum with composite beasts and a Tree of Life. The 13thc. N doorway is plain. The nave has a 13thc. 5-bay S aisle and a S clerestory of quatrefoil lights in the 3 E bays only. There is also a 13thc. W doorway, reset in the W wall of the 14thc. tower. This has reticulated bell-openings, W angle buttresses and an irregular polygonal SE stair turret that rises higher than the main parapet and has its own battlement. Work was done in the 14th-15thc., replacing windows in the nave and aisle walls. The church was restored in 1868, and again in 1951. The S doorway is described here, along with the font, which may be a remodelled example of the Aylesbury group.
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The font is the only Romanesque feature. The present church dates fromc.1340 (Pevsner suggestsc.1385), although drastically restored 1868-9.
Parish church
The church has chancel with N vestry, nave with clerestorey and N and S aisles, and W
tower. It is substantially 13thc., apart from the chancel and
vestry which are 14thc. There is some modern work in the
chancel. Some 12thc. masonry survives in the nave and 12thc.
sculpture is found on the reset N doorway and on a carved panel set into the exterior S
wall.
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Cosgrove is a good-sized village in the SE of the county, less than half
a mile from the river Great Ouse that forms the border with Buckinghamshire,
and which forms a loop around the village. It is now on the edge of the great
conurbation of Milton Keynes. The Grand Union canal runs through the village,
and the church is centrally sited, with the hall site to the S of it. Cosgrove
church comprises a square W tower, a nave, a N aisle and a square
chancel which is off-set to the S side of the nave. The
tower appears to be late medieval, but its E arch may comprise Anglo-Saxon
masonry reworked in the 13thc. Only its tall, narrow proportions betray the
possibility that the nave is Anglo-Saxon. The E and S walls of the rebuilt
neo-Norman chancel incorporate traces of 12thc.
arcading, probably representing blocked windows; two
medieval corbels have been re-set in its internal
walls. The early 13thc. N arcade comprises
quatrefoil
piers with moulded
capitals carrying pointed, chamfered arches with a
sawtooth label. The pointed, chamfered N doorway also has a label
carved with sawtooth. The church was restored in 1864-5 and again in
1887.
Parish church
Church consists of a W tower, nave with a four-bay arcade, N and S aisles, clerestory, and a chancel with N chapel. S doorway and tower arch are 13thc. while the nave arcade is 14thc.; the clerestory, upper part of tower, and the chancel are late medieval. C. H. Fowler did some restoration work here in 1891. The W doorway and W window of the tower, as well as the corbel table on the S porch, are Romanesque survivals.