
The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland

Derby (medieval)
Parish church
Stanton by Dale is a village about three miles S of Ilkeston. The church lies to the N of the village and consists of a coursed squared gritstone building comprising a chancel, a nave with a N aisle and a S porch, a N vestry and a W tower. The building was extensively restored in 1872, when the chancel and the N aisle were extended and several Romanesque pieces of the original church were re-employed in the altered structure. The surviving Romanesque elements consist of three fragments of three 12thc incised sepulchral crosses, which are reset into the exterior N wall of the N aisle and into the churchyard wall, and the tympanum of the S doorway.
Parish church
Cubley is a village about six miles S of Ashbourne. The church lies to the S of the village and it is situated on the confluence of the Brooks Cubley and Bentley. The building consists of a coursed squared and rubble sandstone ashlar structure with stone dressings. The original 11thc church was altered from the late 12thc, when the present nave was built: the chancel and the S aisle date to the 13thc, whilst the W tower was added in the 15thc. The church was extensively restored by James Piers St Aubyn in 1872-4, and again in 1909. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is found on the late 12thc nave arcade.
Parish church
Crich is a village about one mile E of Whatstandwell and two miles N of Ambergate. The church lies to the N of the village and consists of a Ashlar and coursed rubble gritstone structure with quoins built around 1135; to the original chancel and nave the S porch, the S and N aisle and the W tower were added in the 14thc, whilst the vestry was added in the 20thc. The Romanesque surviving sculpture is found on the nave N arcade and on the font situated at the W end of the S aisle.
Parish church
Newton Solney is a small village about three miles NE of Burton upon Trent and about ten miles SW of Derby, and it is situated on the confluence of the Rivers Dove and Trent. The church lies to the N of the village; the structure of coursed squared sandstone and ashlar consists of a chancel, an aisled nave, a S porch, a N vestry and a W tower. The church was restored by Frederick Josias Robinson between 1880 and 1882. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N wall of the tower, where two fragments are inserted, possibly from a more decorated doorway.