The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lincoln (medieval)
Parish church, formerly chapel
Illston on the Hill is a small village in the Harborough district of SE Leicestershire, 7 miles N of Market Harborough. Illston is unusually a dead-end village, and the church is in the centre. St Michael's consists of a W tower, a clerestoreyed nave with S aisle and S porch, and a chancel. The fabric is largely of the late-13thc or later. It is built of coursed rubble stone and was restored by H. Goddard and Son in 1866-67. Only the font is Romanesque, and must be from an earlier building.
Parish church
Theddingworth is a small village in the Harborough district of S Lecestershire, on the N bank of the River Welland that forms the border with Northamptonshire. The church is in the centre of the village, and is an ironstone rubble church with limestone dressings. It consists of a W tower and spire, nave with two aisles and low clerestory, chancel and two flanking chapels. The only Romanesque sculpture in the church is on the capitals of the N arcade; of similar date although plain are the arch leading to the N chapel, and the round font. The S arcade, though round-arched is 13thc. The church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1858.
Parish church
Twyford is a village in the Melton district of eastern Leicestershire. It is 5 miles S of Melton Mowbray and 9 miles E of Leicester The church stands on the N side of the main street through the village, It is an ironstone and limestone ashlar building consisting of a chancel, clerestoreyed nave with N aisle and S porch, and a W tower The chancel was rebuilt in 1775, a vestry added in 1849 and an organ chamber in 1889. The earliest and only Romanesque feature is the N arcade of c.1180-90. The rest of the church was rebuilt or remodelled in the later middle ages.
Parish church
St Michael’s church in Stanton Harcourt, SW Oxfordshire, is situated in the centre of the village together with the old manor house, both surrounded by land of the Harcourt estate. The Norman church had a chancel, a central tower at least as high as the second stage of the present tower and a spacious aisleless nave. The early work was in rendered rubble with limestone details, as it is today. The chancel was rebuilt c. 1260 to be almost as long as the nave, and the transepts and a stair turret to the tower were also added. In the C15th the Harcourt Chapel was built S of the chancel. The Romanesque features include the paired N and S nave doorways, the two paired round-headed windows on each side of the nave, a blocked N chancel doorway and four windows in the second stage of the tower.
Parish church
Duns Tew is a village about nine miles S of Banbury and 15 miles N of Oxford. The church lies to the centre of the village and consists of a coursed squared marlstone and limestone structure of a chancel, a nave with N aisle, a NE vestry, a S porch and a W tower. The church was largely rebuilt in 1862 by George Gilbert Scott, but the building retains the reset S doorway, the font and some late medieval features.
Parish church
Chadwell is a small village in the Melton district of NE Leicestershire, 4 miles NE of Melton Mowbray and 17 miles SE of Nottingham. The church is on the northern edge of the village, and consists of W tower, nave with S aisle and S porch and a chancel. A 12thc aisle has been taken down, and the blocked arcade is visible inside and out. There is also a plain round headed tower arch. Otherwise the church is substantially 13thc. The church is of coursed squared ironstone with ashlar dressings and was restored by R. W. Johnson in 1865-66. the The blocked N arcade and later plain round tower arch are of the Romanesque period, as is the font.
Parish church
The former village of Belgrave is now a suburb of Leicester, and the church lies on the E bank of the River Soar. The building consists of chancel, extended in the 14thc, a nave, S and N aisles added in the 13thc, and a W tower, which lower stages date to the 12thc, while the upper one was added in the 15thc. The S porch built in 1826 and a N porch was erected in 1911; the N vestry date to 1877. The church was restored in 1860 by Ewan Christian, in 1861-67 by William Gillett, and again in 1877 by George Gilbert Scott. The surviving Romanesque sculptures is found on the reset S doorway and in the tower arch.
Parish church
Northmoor is a small village in south-west Oxfordshire close to Stanton Harcourt. The present church of St Denys is an almost unaltered small cruciform building of the early 14thc., with a 15thc. tower. Its only Romanesque feature is the tub font decorated with a single flowering stem.
Parish church
Weston-on-the-Green is situated 8 miles NE of Oxford and 4 miles SW of Bicester. The present church consists of nave and chancel built as one rectangle, with a W tower. The oldest part is now the lower stage of the tower, dating from c. 1200, although it was partially rebuilt in the C13th. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1743-4. It has a large and elaborately carved classical S doorway with a pediment, possibly brought from elsewhere, that is unexpected in this setting. Romanesque features remain on the lower stage of the tower, with a round-headed blocked doorway and three small windows, and a memorable Romanesque font with intersecting arcading.
Parish church
Pickwell is a small village 5 miles SE of Melton Mowbray in the Melton district of the county. The church stands in the centre of the village and is of ironstone and limestone ashlar with limestone dressings. It comproses a chancel, aisled and clerestoreyed nave with a S porch, and a W tower. The earlist fabric is the nave with its 13thc S arcade and doorway. The N arcade is of c.1300, the tower was rebuilt in the 15thc, and the chancel was rebuilt in the 14thc. The church was restored by R. W. Johnson in 1860. The font is the only Romanesque feature.