The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Coventry and Lichfield (medieval)
Parish church
In the 13thc the church was rebuilt throughout in the Early English style, and in the later centuries additions were made in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. Victorian improvements were also carried out under Gilbert Scott. The church is 152 feet long, with a crossing tower and spire and transepts, and a chancel with aisles. The original Norman features are architectural and sculptural fragments in the North and South walls. Pevsner notes that a close study of these fragments may yield quite some information on the lavish appointment of the predecessor of the 13thc church.
Parish church
The site is medieval but there are no architectural remains of the old church. The nave was rebuilt in 1743, the chancel in 1810, and the impressive W tower by John Broadbent in 1829-32. Broadbent's tower is essentially the oldest part of the building to remain intact, the N side of the church being remodelled 1840, and the chancel rebuilt again in 1843. A S chapel, ambulatory and vestry was added in 1911. The church was gutted by incendiary bombs and the interior now consists of concrete vaults on a steel frame rising from the floor. The church retains an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft, and a Romanesque font.
Parish church
Parwich is a small village about seven miles N of Ashbourne. The church lies to the S of the village and dates back to the 12thc when it was a chapelry of St Oswald’s Ashbourne: it only became a parish in 1650. The church was demolished and reconstructed on the same site in Coxbench stone between 1872-4 by Henry Isaac Stevens and Frederick Josias Robinson, thanks to the generosity of Sir Thomas William Evans. The structure consists of a chancel with a S aisle and a N vestry, a nave with aisles, a N porch and a W tower. The church incorporates some of the original elements of the Romanesque period, such as the W doorway, the chancel arch, a respond capital and two fragments of a capital.
Parish church
This church is typical for Derbyshire, with its tall tower and late 15thc spire. The chancel is early 14thc, the nave has Decorated and Late Perpendicular arcades. All the fenestration is Late Perpendicular. The only Romanesque feature is the lead font.
Parish church
The Perpendicular W tower is the oldest part of the exterior, most of which was rebuilt 1815-22. On the N side is the strikingly rusticated classical of the Case mausoleum of c.1681. The chancel has been crudely converted into an Early English lancet style but was originally Perpendicular. Inside, the S arcade is 14thc, and the N arcade is a facsimile from the early 19thc revamp. The church has two fonts, one of which is Perpenidcular, and stands by the S door, and the other, at the E end of the S aisle, is Romanesque.
Parish church
On approaching Ormskirk it would appear the town centre has two churches. This is not the case, instead the medieval parish church of the town has the unique attribute of having a separate tower and spire. The spire is based upon a smaller tower built into the S aisle, probably 14thc. The enormously wide W tower was built after 1542. The church was heavily classified in the 18thc and the current arcades of the interior are 19thc, replacing classical columns. The arcade of the chancel is partly 13thc, and the N wall of the chancel contains a Romanesque window.
Parish church
The former village of Allestree became a suburb of the Borough of Derby in 1968. St Edmund's church was largely rebuilt and extended in 1865-6 by Stevens and Robinson of Derby. It retains a W tower of the 13thc. The only Romanesque feature is a S doorway that is partly renewed.
Parish church
Middleton has, after the collegiate church in Manchester which later became the cathedral, the most significant survival of a medieval church in Greater Manchester. It consists of a pair of through arcades with clerestory, and a W tower heightened by a curious wooden bellcote probably around 1667, when new bells are recorded as being hung. The church's main interest is its heraldic rood screen, and stained glass commemorating archers of the Battle of Flodden Field, but also contains significant Romanesque fragments built into the late medieval structure.
Parish church
Now in the suburbs of Merseyside, Childwall is the only medieval church in the Liverpool metropolitan area. It is essentially late medieval, with 14thc and later masonry all of new red sandstone, typical of Cheshire. The exterior is extremely restored, and the W steeple is Gothick of 1810-11. The arcades are of standard Perp-type, with one pillar removed on each side to allow for a round super-arch to allow visibility from the galleriesd. The church was restored 1851-6, then greatly expanded N with an outer N aisle in 1905-6. There is a single Romanesque capital N of the sanctuary, in an oblong niche.
Parish church, formerly chapel
The building as it is now has 13thc origins, including an unusually-placed tower at the W end of the N aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in 1911.
The church dates from the 13th c but was largely rebuilt and restored in the 19thc by the Duke of Devonshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, G.H. Stokes were certainly involved. The only Romanesque sculpture in the church is a fragment in the church porch.