
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

St Thomas the Apostle (now)
Parish church
Market Rasen is a small market town in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, on the main road running from Lincoln, 13 miles to the SW to Grimsby, 16 miles to the NE. It stands on the River Rase, a tributary of the Ancholme. The church is in the town centre and has an early 15thc. W tower. The rest of the church is mostly of the 1862 restoration by James Fowler who also added the present Lady Chapel on the N side of the chancel in 1877. The only Romanesque feature is the S nave doorway.
Parish church
Navestock is a village in the Borough of Brentwood in SE Essex. It is a dispersed rural parish with no traditional centre, and the church and hall are rather isolated, N of the settlements of Navestock Heath and Navestock Side.
The church has a chancel rebuilt in the 14thc with a reticulated E window, and an 11thc-12thc nave with a later 5-bay S aisle. The 2 E bays of the arcade are oak arches with trusses, perhaps dating from the 16thc. The arcade piers and capitals are mid-13thc. There is an early Romanesque N doorway, but the entrance to the church is through a 15thc porch in the S aisle (rebuilt in 1955). The most spectacular feature of the church, however, is a great semi-octagonal tower with a timber turret and a broach spirelet, situated at the W end of the aisle.