The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Paul (now)
Parish church
This highly restored church has a 12thc. W tower, dated 1661 on the
parapet, an aisled nave, N transept, N porch and
square-ended chancel.
Parish church
Stokenchurch is a large village in the Chiltern Hills, some 4 miles NW of High Wycombe. It extends for about a mile on both sides of the A40; formerly the main road from Oxford to High Wycombe and London but now superseded for long-distance traffic by the M40, which acts as a bypass running just S of the village itself. The church is in the centre of the village, on the N side of the A40, and consists of a nave with a N aisle and a N transept, a chancel and a tall gabled westwork with a shingled bell turret. The oldest part is the chancel, which has a 12thc chancel arch but no other features of that period. It was partly rebuilt c1330. The nave is dated by an early 13thc S doorway under a porch, but was remodelled in the 15thc; the N transept was built in the 14thc, including the arch from the nave, but rebuilt in the 16thc. The aisle and its 3-bay N arcade are the work of John Oldrid Scott (1893); the arcade following the form of the 14thc transept arch. The present bell turret dates from 1960 but there was reputedly a Norman one here before. The church is of flint, partly rendered, and was restored by E. B. Lamb in 1847. The chancel arch is the only Romanesque feature described here.
Parish church
Medmenham is a village in the south of the county, on the N bank of the Thames that forms the boundary with Berkshire. The village runs south from a crossroad on the busy A4155 midway between Henley and Marlow. The church stands at this crossroad. It has a W tower, and a long unaisled nave with N and S doorways, the former blocked and the latter protected by a brick and timber porch. At the E end of the nave is a N transept chapel. There is no chancel arch, and a short chancel with a S doorway. The nave and its doorways are 12thc work, and the chancel and transept are 15thc rebuildings of earlier features. The W tower is of 14thc - 15thc date and rendered, while the nave and chancel are of chalk rubble and knapped flint with some banded flushwork on the buttresses.
Medmenham abbey was at the S end of the village near the river.
Parish church
Sandstone church with a 12thc. nave and chancel, a S aisle and chapel of 1510, and a W tower and vestry. The church stands on high ground and is very exposed to the N and E with consequent damage to the N wall and entrance. Rock is the largest 12thc. parish church in Worcestershire, with sculpture adorning the N nave doorway and windows, the chancel arch and the font; there are also some reset Romanesque fragments in the N and W nave walls inside.
Parish church
The church has an aisled nave with a clerestorey
on the S side only, chancel and W tower. The nave
arcades are of two bays and
date from c.1300. The N aisle has been widened and extended W ward
alongside the tower, probably in the 19thc. The N aisle doorway has been
blocked; the S is 19thc. and protected by a porch. The
chancel has chapels to N and S, the N chapel two
bays long with an arcade of
c.1300; the S of a single bay which now houses
the organ. The W tower is of three unbuttressed storeys; the lower storeys
12thc. with plain round-headed lancets in the S and W walls, the top storey
bell-openings all with replaced heads and probably 13thc. A parapet has been
added, perhaps in the 18thc. The church was extensively restored by William
Slater and Gillet in 1863, and further repairs were carried out by E. A.
Roberts and P. J. Panter of Wellingborough in 1961-66. Romanesque features
described here are the plain tower arch and the
font.
Parish church
The earliest fabric suggests the existence of a late-12thc., six-bay aisled nave with a W tower and a chancel of unknown form. Towards the end of the 13thc. the
church was almost doubled in width by widening the N aisle and replacing the S
aisle with a second nave, as wide as the first, and equipped with its own
chancel and S aisle. At the same time or slightly later
the original chancel was enlarged in both length and
width, so that it was now wider than the original nave, to which it was linked
by a diagonal bay. An open arcade separated the two chancels. Around 1500 the W tower
collapsed, taking the 12thc. S arcade with it. The
arcade was replaced and a new tower built, detached
from the church at the NW and bearing the arms of Bishop Goodrick
(1534–54). Remains of the original tower survive in the form of its N
and S arches and the E arch bases. The church therefore consists of a double
nave with aisles to N and S, and arcades of (from N
to S) c.1200, c.1500, and c.1300; a two-storey 14thc. S porch; a double chancel; W tower
arches but no W tower, and a detached NW tower of the 1530s. Construction is of
ashlar, that on the S of roughly coursed stones. The tower is of regular large
blocks. Romanesque sculpture is found on the capitals of the tower arches and
the N nave arcade.
Parish church
Wingrave is in the E of central Buckinghamshire, 4 miles NE of Aylesbury and a mile from the Hertfordshire border in the Domesday hundred of Cottesloe. It is a large village on a hill, set in rolling farmland, now mostly arable but previously predominantly pasture, with the church in the centre.
Wingrave church has a W tower, a nave with aisles and clerestory, a chancel with a vestry and organ chamber on the S and a curious narrow chamber on the N, suggested by Pevsner to have been an anchorite’s cell. The chancel is the earliest part of the church, and has the remains of a blind arcade, stylistically of c1190, on the N and S interior walls. From the exterior masonry it is clear that it has been extended, and towards the E end a blocked S window and a lancet in the N wall with a dogtooth label continued as a stringcourse indicate that the lengthening took place at the beginning of the 13thc. It is unclear whether the interior blind arcade was added when the chancel was extended, or whether an existing arcade was lengthened then, but the capitals; largely stiff–leaf throughout, perhaps point to the first alternative. The narrow N chapel is much restored, but has a pointed barrel vault and wallpaintings that may also be 13thc. The lower storey of the tower is also early-13thc, with stiff-leaf capitals on the tower arch, but diagonal buttresses were added in the 14thc or 15thc. The upper storey is 19thc. The nave has a sanctus bell over the E gable. The 5-bay nave arcades are 14thc, and the clerestory and aisle windows are 15thc, much restored. The S doorway is 15thc too, and the chancel may have been heightened at this time. The church was extensively remodelled in G. Vialls of Ealing’s restoration of 1887-89. The S organ room and vestry date from this period, as does the S porch, and most of the 15thc window tracery was replaced then. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt in 1898. Romanesque sculpture is found in the blind arcades of the chancel and the 12thc font.
Parish church
The church comprises a nave (with some herringbone masonry and opposing N and S doorways), S aisle
ofc.1200, N tower and a 13thc. chancel with a chapel
continuing the S aisle.
Parish church
The only medieval part still standing is the W tower. To the E of this,
the nave dates from 1825 and the chancel from 1863 (E.
F. Law). The curious arrangement of the nave, with wide aisles carried on
timber piers flanking a low barrel-vaulted central
vessel, is attributed to the 1860s by Pevsner. An octagonal parish room, known
as the Chapter House, was added to the north side of the nave in 1989. The
unbuttressed stone rubble tower has three 12thc. storeys and a later
battlement. Original features are the plain, narrow lancets of the second
storey, the bell-openings, and the rebuilt tower arch.
Parish church
Stoke Goldington is in the N of the county, in the Domesday hundred of Bunsty, 3 miles W of Olney and 1½ miles from the Northamptonshire border. The village lies in the hollow formed by a tributary of the Great Ouse and is built on an outcrop ofUpper Liasclay. To the E is a deposit of river gravels that has been exploited commercially. The country hereabouts is rolling and wooded, mostly arable farmland. The church stands on the higher ground outside the village to the N, and may represent the old village centre.
St Peter’s is of coursed rubble and roughly shaped stones. It consists of an aisled nave with a S porch, a chancel with a S chapel, and a W tower. The earliest fabric is in the chancel arch, which is 12thc. The 3-bay nave arcades are 13thc work with cylindrical piers, moulded capitals and two-order pointed and chamfered arches. The N and S doorways date from c.1200 or slightly later, and the S porch is 13thc work (RCHME says c1330), but the clerestory, curiously pierced on the S side only, has square-headed windows of the 17thc. The chancel is late-13thc or early-14thc with a trefoil-headed piscina and contemporary N windows, and the chapel windows indicate a similar date. The chapel is now used as an organ room and vestry. The W tower is 15thc with diagonal W buttresses, tall two-light Perpendicular bell-openings and a battlemented parapet. The tower and chancel were restored in 1897-98 by J. S. Alder of London. Romanesque sculpture is found on the two nave doorways, the chancel arch and the plain font.