The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Peter ad Vincula (now)
Parish church
South Newington is a small village in the ironstone area of N Oxfordshire between Chipping Norton and Banbury. The early church probably existed in the mid-C12th, consisting of a chancel, nave and N aisle. There was a major remodelling c. 1300 that doubled it in size, adding the tower, S aisle, lengthening the nave, adding to the N aisle and adding a new chancel. The E bay of both aisles is of this date and wider than the others, indicating that the new chancel was extended further east. Clerestories were added in the C15th. St Peter’s is renowned for its high quality wall paintings. Remaining Romanesque features are two external buttresses, a N nave arcade of two bays with round arches and decorated capitals, and a font. There is also a sculpted head on the W respond of the N arcade, and some loose sculpture, that may be Romanesque.
Parish church
Broad Hinton is a small village about 5 miles SW of Swindon. The church dates from the 13thc with a 15thc W tower and a chancel that was rebuilt in 1879. It contains two carved, Norman stones set into the E wall of the nave.
Parish church
The church consists of an aisleless nave and chancel of 12thc. origin, a Perpendicular W tower and S porch. The chancel has two 12thc. clasping, corner buttresses at the E end with one central buttress shortened to make way for a large 14thc. window. The N and S walls have central buttresses. The nave has three buttresses intact on the S side; similarly on the N side. There is a 12thc. blocked N doorway to the nave and a plain deeply splayed high-level window also in the N wall. In the S wall the slightly splayed internal reveals of the S doorway survive. In the chancel there are two plain, deeply splayed high-level windows in the N wall and one remaining in the S wall. Sections of a plain chamfered interior string course remain in the chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found on the chancel arch and the font.
Parish church
The remains of an 11thc. nave, devoid of sculptural detail, are
detectable at the W end of the church. The aisles were addedc.1200, and the W
tower, clerestorey and chancel
slightly later, in the 13thc.