The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Andrew (formerly)
Parish church
The church stands high on the N side of the Great Wold Valley and above the main W-E section of the course of the Gypsey Race stream before it turns at Burton Fleming and Rudston. To the immediate E of the church is the site of an early medieval manor house, which has been excavated (Brewster, 1972; Norton, 2006, fig. 11).
The church, with its W tower, nave and chancel, largely retains its Norman form (Bilson, 1922, 52), although elements were restored in 1870-72 by G. E. Street. It was faced with well-cut coursed ashlar blocks in the Norman technique (Norton, 2006, 55).
There are three doorways with tympana: one in the chancel and two opposite each other in the nave. One of the stones that forms the tympanum over the S doorway is an inscribed sun-dial with an inscription, which means that this church can be dated to c.1109-c.1118. Sculptural embellishment of the building is otherwise almost non-existent, apart from the capitals of the belfry windows and an unusual impost profile on the chancel and tower arches; there are no corbels. The cylindrical font is patterned.
Parish church
A church in Magnesian limestone in a red brick suburban setting. It has nave, chancel, south chapel, south aisle, tower and north porch.
In 1951-53 the church was moved to this site from Ferry Fryston, about three-quarters of a mile north of the present position, (approx. Grid Ref: SE 478 251). The OS map of 1893 suggests remnants of medieval strip fields in the area, which is now occupied by the Ferrybridge power station. The burial ground at the old site remains to the east of the power station. The church at Ferry Fryston had been restored by Ewan Christian about 1878, and faculty papers at the Borthwick Institute show the plan and sections of the medieval building (Fac. 1878/4). A painting of the church from the SW dated 1905 is in the vestry. Ryder (1993, 152) has a photograph of the N face of the church on the old site.
After a long history of flooding and, latterly, erosion, it was decided to move the church to Ferrybridge, the modern centre of population. Mottistone & Milner-White (1956), and the mark 0.78m up the R jamb of the doorway, show the flood level of 1866. The rebuilding is said to have used approximately 60 per cent of the original walling and all the worked stone. One bay was added to the aisle at the W end. The S doorway became the present N doorway, and the N aisle was changed to the S side. The vice in the tower was moved from S to N. There are no faculty papers for the removal at the Borthwick Institute.
Romanesque sculpture survives on the N doorway, on the impost of the tower arch and on the font. Accessible parts of the sculpture have been retooled, for example parts of the font and the tower arch.
Parish church
Small, simple church rebuilt in 1852 on the site of the medieval church. ‘The church stands alone in a farmyard with the earthworks of the former village to the E’ (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 392). See also Morris, 1919, 135-6.
An analysis of the building was made during 2003 when the church was threatened with redundancy. 'The church was found to contain a substantial amount of twelfth-century fabric in the north wall and the building morphology was suggestive of an incorporated earlier church. In 2004 the additional discovery of a small fragment of medieval wall painting supported the conclusion that the church was not rebuilt in 1852 as previously thought, but was rather substantially altered at this time' (Jane Grenville pers. comm.) (Neal 2007, 4).
The font is the only item of Romanesque sculpture.
Parish church
Hutton Cranswick has two nuclei; the church is at Hutton, the railway station at Cranswick. There is a W tower, aisled nave, porch, vestry and chancel. The church is ‘of Norman origin’ (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 571), but that is not immediately recognisable.
Some windows, the porch and the vestry are by Ewan Christian, 1875-6. The chancel was restored in 1919, with various fittings, by Temple Moore (Pevsner & Neave 1995, 572; Brandwood 1997, 242). Most of the pieces noted in the outside walls by Morris 1919, 210-11, that is, reset beakheads and dogtooth, are no longer to be seen there. Only one reset fragment, with incised blackletter, was noted outside (E wall of chancel).
The early twelfth-century font formerly at this church (found as broken pieces in the Vicarage rockery) has been restored and is on display at the Hull and East Riding Museum, on loan from York Museums Trust. See the CRSBI report on that site.
Parts of the S nave doorway, and the 12 reset beakheads inside, are original.
Parish church
Kirkby Malzeard is a village sited about 5 miles WNW of Ripon in North Yorkshire. A sizeable medieval church of which the nave retains most of its 12th-century S wall and its S doorway, St Andrew's consists of a North aisle, W tower, S porch, chancel, N chapel and NE vestry altered or added later. The church suffered a severe fire in 1908 which destroyed the roofs and the Anglo-Danish hogback grave cover illustrated by Collingwood, and it also meant that the N nave arcade had to be renewed (McCall, 1909, pl. showing interior view after fire).All that is original of the N arcade appears to be the arches of the two westernmost bays.
The S doorway and one respond of the chancel arch have 12th c. sculpture. There is also a N nave arcade (see Comments) and a possible early mass-dial. For a plan, see McCall (1909). See also Butler (2007), 249-251.