The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lichfield (medieval)
Premonstratensian house, former
The ruins of the Premonstratensian abbey of Beauchief date from the late 12thc to the 15thc. The church had an aisleless nave, transepts with chapels, and a straight-ended chancel. In the 1660s Edward Pegge of Beauchief Hall made alterations to the ruins of the monastic church in order to form a private chapel which extended from the tower eastwards. The W wall of the abbey church, and much of its tower, were thus treated as a W tower for a chapel-like nave (Harman and Pevsner 2017, 601-2).
Surviving work of c. 1200 relates to three arches. A round-headed doorway of c.1200 is attached to the NW angle of the tower and leads to the churchyard. Elements of an arch now over a window in the S wall may once have belonged to a doorway and also be c. 1200. The larger central portal in the W wall shares some features, including the mouldings, with these smaller arches. However, the larger arch is pointed and may date to the early 13thc.
The interior is arranged as it was in Pegge's time, and is still in use as a church. The site of the abbey was given to Sheffield City Council in 1931 and a golf course now occupies the west side of the valley.
Parish church
The church consists of a nave, a large chancel, and a tower surmounted by a lower spire at the W end. The chancel was rebuilt in the 14thc. The W tower dates to the 13thc. The church was restored in 1855 and 1866.
The Romanesque features are the S doorway, the chancel arch, and two nave windows.
Parish church
Within the district of Bolsover, this church is substantially 13thc with later alterations and some 19thc restoration. Romanesque features are the S doorway to the nave and the priest's doorway to the chancel; both have sculpture. The responds of the chancel arch are Romanesque, with scalloped capitals. The Transitional N arcade has nailhead on the abaci.
Parish church
Bradbourne is a small and remote hill village 4 miles NE of Ashbourne, overlooking Havenhill Dale. The church's Saxon origins are evident in the fabric of the N nave wall and in the remaining fragments of a churchyard cross. The present church consists of a Norman tower, a clerestoried nave with a S aisle and an early 14thc S arcade, a 14thc chancel with a 19thc vestry off the N wall, and a S porch. It was restored in 1846. The 12thc W tower is square and unbuttressed, with ornamented bell-openings and corbel tables with heads. There is a projecting staircase tower in the NE corner. The S doorway of the tower is Romanesque, with three orders decorated with beasts and birds, and with beakhead. The tower's W doorway is round-headed and plain, with a keystone; there is a plain round-headed window above. The tower arch inside is also of the 12thc. There is a reused Romanesque shaft on the S chancel window. Of a Romanesque font only the badly damaged bowl survives.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Brassington is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, 14 miles NW of Derby and 6 miles SW of Matlock. It is built largely from the local limestone is built on the S side of a steep valley with the church at its highest point, on the northern edge. This essentially 12thc church consists of a nave with a 12thc S arcade, a 13thc S porch, a W tower, 12thc except for its battlement, a N aisle added in 1879-81 by F. J. Robinson, and a chancel with a 12thc S aisle. There must have been a corbel table originally, and corbels have been reset on the W tower and elsewhere around the building. Other Romanesque features include the font and a reset chevron voussoir in the S porch.
Parish church
Taddington is situated high on a limestone plateau of Derbyshire's Peak District, along the former route of the A6, which now bypasses the village to the north. The church tower and spire date to the 14thc and the body of the church is 14th to early 15thc with late 15thc re-windowing. The whole church was restored in 1891.
The only Norman feature is a cross shaft and socket stone in the churchyard, described in Historic England's List Entry (1009051) as of 'probable 11thc' date.
Parish church
Long Eaton is a town on the River Trent about seven miles SW of Nottingham. The church lies to the centre of the town and is a rubble stone building with quoins and ashlar. The original church was built at the order of King Cnut the Great in 1025, but was rebuilt in the Romanesque period. The 12thc structure consisted of a nave and a chancel, to which a W tower was added in the 15thc. In 1868 George Edmund Street transformed the Romanesque church into the S aisle, and added to the structure a new chancel, a nave and a N aisle with N vestry. Romanesque sculpture survives on the S doorway and other fragments of similar date reset into the exterior S walls of the S aisle and the chancel chapel.
Parish church
The town of Bolsover lies in the north-eastern corner of Derbyshire, six miles E of Chesterfield. The church of St Mary and St Laurence has a W tower with a broach spire, an aisled nave with a S chapel, a chancel, and a N vestry. It was gutted by fire in 1897, rebuilt in 1898, damaged again by fire in 1960 and restored in 1961-62 by Taylor, Young and Partners. The octagonal vestry dates from the latest restoration.
Surviving from the Romanesque period are the W tower (although the W tower doorway, at least, is Transitional) and the tympanum over the S doorway of the chancel. The chancel arch is also of the period, though plain, and there are six reset Romanesque corbels in the blocked S aisle bay of the nave.
Parish church
Youlgreave is a village about 12 miles from Buxton on the River Bradford. The church lies to the of the village and consists of an ashlar gritstone structure with coursed squared gritstone, limestone and gritstone rubble, gritstone dressings and quoins. The church features a chancel, a clerestoried three-bay nave with N and S aisles, a S porch and a W tower. The aisled nave with the arcades date to the late 12thc: the round-headed arches to the S aisle are late Romanesque in style and those of the N aisle feature Transitional arches. The piers of the N and S aisles do not align from N to S. The church was extensively restored in 1869-71 by Richard Norman Shaw. Romanesque sculpture consists of the blocked N doorway, the N and S arcades, the font located in the nave, two slabs, one of which depicting a pilgrim, and a head supporting a stoup.
Parish church
Monyash is a small village about five miles W of Bakewell and the church lies to the E of the village. It was founded in c.1198 but was extensively altered during the centuries. The structure was built of coursed limestone rubble with gritstone dressings and quoins; it consists of a chancel rebuilt in 1884-7 by William Butterfield, a S and a N transept, an aisled nave, a S porch and a W tower. The only Romanesque feature here is the head reset in the later sedilia and piscina.