The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Swithin (now)
Parish church
Wellow is a small village in the Newark and Sherwood district of central Nottinghamshire, 11 miles NW of Newark. The church is in the village centre, and consists of a chancel, with S vestry, nave with S aisle and N porch and a tower in the W bay of the S aisle. It is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and was restored and the chancel replaced by Ewan Christian in 1878-79. Further restoration was carried out in 1968-69. The Romanesque features are the tower arch and a disused font.
Parish church
The village of Compton Bassett lies close to the western escarpment of the Marlborough Downs. The church of St Swithin is located on an Upper Greensand rise.
The earliest fabric is a recently discovered wall outside the church, possibly Anglo-Saxon. The nave has arcades of the early 13thc. The N is earlier than the S arcade. Some of the fabric of the nave walls may date from the late 11thc. or early 12thc.
Parish church
The church is of standard Cornish aisled type, a S arcade of polyphant and a slightly late N arcade of granite. Nothing remains from the Romanesque church except the font.
Parish church
Church consisting of nave with early 12thc. S arcade of two bays and late 12thc. N arcade of three bays. 13thc. chancel, N and S aisles and tower with 15thc. spire. N porch and late 12thc. font near N doorway.
Parish church
Quenington is a village about nine miles E of Cirencester on the W bank of the River Coln. The church lies to the S of the village and consists of a rubble stone structure. The W part of the chancel and the aisleless nave are Romanesque, including the N and S windows and the pilaster buttresses. The church was extensively restored by Fredrick Waller in 1882-3: the bellcote and the N vestry are from this date. Romanesque sculpture consists of the stringcourse, the numerous fragments reset into the interior N and S walls at the W end of the nave and, especially, the N and S round-headed doorways with carved tympana still in situ: in 1990 Nimbus Conservation carried out conservation work on the Romanesque doorways, which won the John Betjeman Award for good conservation practice.
Parish church
Merton is 3 miles S of Bicester in E Oxfordshire. Although there is documentary evidence that a church existed here before 1118, the present one is mainly of 14thc. build or later. Originally an impressive 14thc. church with some Perpendicular additions, its N aisle was demolished in the 15thc. or 16thc., leaving the piers and arches embedded in the N nave wall. Its spire was taken down in the 18thc. The only visible evidence of its origins now is a font that appears to be late 12thc. (Sherwood and Pevsner, 1974).