The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lichfield (medieval)
Parish church
The church stands in the SW corner of the village and consists of a single-aisled 12thc building with a W tower of the 13th and 14thc, and a late 16thc N porch. Evidence remains of a late 13th or 14thc S aisle. There are two small, round-headed 12thc windows in the N wall of the chancel. Further 12thc survivals include another small, round-headed window on the N side of nave, and the N and S nave doorways. The exterior of the N doorway is decorated with sculpture. The S doorway is now blocked; there are reset fragments with chevron decoration above this doorway on the interior and also to the left of it on the exterior. The chancel was restored in 1740, and the nave and tower in 1892.
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Edgmond is a village one mile NW of Newport. The church lies to the S of the village and consists of a sandstone ashlar building of a broad, long, aisleless chancel, a 4-bay aisled nave dated to the early 14thc, a S porch and a W tower. The church was restored by George Edmund Street in 1877–8. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is the early 12thc font situated below the tower arch at W end of the nave.
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Kirk Hallam is a village in the Erewash district of SE Derbyshire, 7 miles NE of Derby and just over a mile from the border with Nottinghamshire, to the E. It is an ancient village, but is now regarded as part of Ilkeston, a larger settlement to the NE. The village expanded dramatically from the 1950s onwards when public and private sector housing was built to the S, and later to the N of the village centre, driven largely by employment opportunities at Stanton Ironworks. The church is thus in the old village centre, but surrounded by mid-20thc housing to the N and S. It is built of coursed gritstone with slate roofs and consists of a nave with a S porch, a higher chancel and a low W tower. The earliest fabric is in the 14thc straight-headed windows of the nave, while the tower is 15thc and later. The church was reported to be ruinous in 1778 and shortly afterwards it was repaired and repewed. There were restorations of the nave and chancel in 1858-59 by Place of Nottingham under the direction of G E Street. Traces of a 12thc church survive in the form of two beakhead voussoirs and two carved with the chevron ornament, and an arcaded font.
Parish church
The church consists of a nave, S aisle, S transept, chancel and a tower at the W end of the nave. The key Norman features are the S arcade, a window opening on the S wall of the nave and some loose fragments found at the end of the S aisle.
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Pleasley is a small village about three miles NW of Mansfield. The church lies to the N of the village on the W bank of the River Meden and is a coursed squared sandstone building with sandstone dressings. The church consists of a chancel of the Norman period with a N vestry, a nave altered in the 13thc with windows being enlarged, a S porch, and a Perpendicular W tower added in the late 14th or early 15thc. An early plain specimen of the Decorated style can be seen in the E window of the chancel. The simple Romanesque chancel arch with billet moulding, the circular base of a font carved in 1662 at the W end of the nave, and an octagonal font in the chancel are all that remains of the original building.
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Pentrich is a small village about 12 miles N of Derby and S of Chesterfield. The church lies to the W of the village and is a structure of coursed rubble sandstone with ashlar gritstone dressings and ashlar gritstone; it was built around 1150 but the present structure is essentially from the Perpendicular period and was extensively restored in 1859. The building consists of a nave with N and S aisles, a chancel, a S porch, and a short embattled W tower. The arcades of plain chamfered round arches and circular piers date to the late 12thc; the small round-arched door from the nave situated in the ground stage of the W tower has a similar dating but does not feature any sculpture. The key Romanesque feature of this site is the font.
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The settlement of Ashford-in-the-Water is situated at a crossing place of the River Wye. Holy Trinity church was almost completely rebuilt in 1868-70 by J.M. & H. Taylor, but a Norman tympanum remains from the earlier building. The lower section of the tower is 13thc and the N arcade dates from the 14thc (Pevsner and Williamson (1978), 66).
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All Saints church is situated in the village of Aston-on-Trent, which lies approximately four miles east of Derby, close to the border with Leicestershire. The church has a W tower, heavily buttressed at its western corners; a clerestoried nave with N and S aisles; a chancel with a short N aisle; and N and S porches.One of the most ancient features of the church is the portion of a Saxon churchyard (or memorial) cross, decorated with a reticulated pattern, now built into the W wall of the N aisle. According to Pevsner and Williamson (1978), 69, surviving late-Saxon quoins indicate an aisleless nave at that period.
Of the Romanesque period are the first two stages of the W tower, its W doorway, and windows on the N, S, and W faces of the tower. In the interior of the church is a Romanesque tower arch, which has been heavily restored.
Parish church
The church is low and embattled, but its early origins are suggested by a central tower, and indeed a large part of the fabric is Romanesque. The W arch of the tower is most impressive, with a jumbled-up label of beakheads, chevron and heads, and an E arch to the chancel, which is earlier, just post-Conquest, and is plain. Early Romanesque also are the nave and the N aisle, which has a narrow round-headed light of one stone, with zigzag to the exterior arch. The old W doorway of this nave (now blocked up), has a carved lintel and tympanum.
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North Wingfield is a village about four miles SE of Chesterfield. The church lies to the W of the village and is a structure of coursed squared sandstone and sandstone ashlar consisting of an aisled nave, a N transept, two N side chapels, a chancel with a N vestry, a S porch and an embattled W tower. The only original 12thc sector of the church is the N transept. Much of the current building is of the Perpendicular period; it was restored in 1880 by Richard Herbert Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow. Romanesque sculpture consists of the E window of the N transept, a reset head in the S aisle, and two incised tomb slabs in the S porch.