The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Holy Trinity (formerly)
Parish church
Little Ouseburn is 6 miles SE of Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. The parish church, isolated from its village by a meadow, stands attractively in an angle of the road among trees. The church has nave, aisles and chancel, and an unbuttressed tower, the bulk of which is generally thought to be early post-Conquest; it is built of a mixture of sandstone and limestone. Re-used Roman stones in the tower are evident by their large size and the Lewis holes. The church has several reset pieces of sculpture which are included in the pre-Conquest corpus (Coatsworth 2008). They are therefore not discussed here in detail, but are shown in the Site Images for reference. Church restored 1875. Apart from arrowslit windows in chancel and tower, only the jambs of the chancel arch are certainly of the Romanesque period.
Parish church
The parish of Rotherfield Greys lies in the extreme SE of Oxfordshire at the southern end of the Chiltern Hills, approx. 2 miles W of Henley and 1 mile S of Greys Court (National Trust), the historic site of the C12th manor house. The church is late-Romanesque in origin although comprehensively rebuilt in 1865 by W. Woodman, and little of the medieval fabric remains. It consists of chancel, nave with timber-framed bell tower rising from W nave ridge, gabled north porch, and a striking early C17th memorial chapel, projecting from N chancel wall. The exterior is part rendered, part flint, with stone dressings and tiled roofs. Romanesque stonework remains in a blocked doorway in the N nave wall and carved square font.