The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Worcester (medieval)
Parish church
Built of red sandstone ashlar and rubble, plastered internally, with stone slated roof; remote from the village. Around 1400 a crossing tower was inserted into the E bay of the late 12thc. aisled nave, so its original four bays were reduced to three. The chancel is also late 12thc. The S transept is 14thc., the N transept 19thc. There is a plain round-headed blocked doorway in the N chancel wall and a plain font. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S nave arcade, and in part of the N.
Parish church
A red sandstone church with a nave and chancel mostly ofc.1200, a 14thc. S chapel and a W timber bell-turret. There is a plain round-headed doorway on the N side of the nave, and a doorway bearing Romanesque sculpture on the S. There is also a font of uncertain date but incorporating Romanesque features.
Parish church
Northfield is now a residential area on the S outskirts of Birmingham. Traditionally it was in Worcestershire, but in 1912 the civil parish was given over to Birmingham (then in Warwickshire). Thus for the period from 1912 until 1974 it was in Warwickshire, which was where it was recorded in Pevsner (1966), and why it was recorded by two fieldworkers independently for this project. This report is synthesised from the reports of Harry Bodenham and G. L. Pearson, and includes photographs from both.
St Laurence's is a sandstone church, comprising a W tower, a nave with N and S aisles, the former built in 1900, and a chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway of the nave, reset into the modern aisle wall, and on carved fragments inset into the N and S faces of the later medieval tower.
Parish church
Built of red sandstone ashlar, the large church consists of a nave and chancel, both with N and S aisles, a W tower with spire, a porch and two vestries off the N side of the chancel. Restorations were carried out to the scheme of G.G. Scott in 1858-59. Only the E respond and the adjacent pier of the N nave arcade now bear Romanesque sculpture; this work was restored with the rest of the church in 1858-9.
Parish church
Siston is a small village in South Gloucestershire, located approximately 7 miles north-east of Bristol. St Anne’s church is located between Siston Court, an Elizabethan manor house, and the small cluster of cottages at the centre of the village. The standing church predominantly dates from the 13thc with additions and restorations from the 17th to 20thc. It comprises a chancel, aisleless nave, west tower, south nave porch and a south nave chapel, constructed largely of coursed stone rubble. The most significant 12thc survivals are the south nave doorway and the lead font.
Parish church
Built of red sandstone ashlar, the church has a 12thc. aisleless nave and chancel, the latter extended in the 13thc., a 14thc. S chapel, a 15thc. W tower and a modern vestry. There are two plain round-headed windows of 12thc. date on the N side of the nave, and two in the N chancel wall, the latter windows later lengthened. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S and N nave doorways, on the string course on the N wall of the nave and chancel, in the chancel arch and on the font. There are also one window on the S side of the nave, one on the N, and a doorway leading into the vestry, all bearing sculpture related to the Romanesque work but probably of 19thc. date. Restorations were begun by the Ward family in 1859.
Parish church
Longborough lies two and a half miles N of Stow-on-the-Wold. The church, which is built of coursed and squared limestone with a stone slate roof, consists of a 12thc chancel with vestry on the N, a nave with S transept, a 19thc N chapel, and a W tower. There was a general restoration of the church in 1884. The N and S nave doorways and the reset chancel arch date from the 12thc.
Parish church
b'\nSmall church of undivided chancel and nave with S chapel. The chancel was probably a 13thc. lengthening of the 12thc. building. A S porch and bell-turret are probably of the 1881 restoration. The S doorway is 12thc. as is the blocked N doorway. Much of the walling masonry is of the local whitish-grey lias limestone.\n'
Parish church
Built of lias rubble with dressings of Broadway stone ashlar. 15thc. W tower, ashlar-faced, with pinnacles. Nave, N and S aisles, N and S transepts. It stands on a low mound in the centre of the old part of the village. Sculpture ofc.1200 is found in the nave arcade capitals, and there is a plain font and a chip-carved stone set into a windowsill in the S transept.
Parish church
Built of grey, rubble masonry throughout, the church comprises a nave with S aisle and porch, a transept on the S side of the church, a tower on the N, and a chancel. There are Romanesque carved fragments set into the chancel walls both inside and out, and reset into a niche on the N side of the nave; the niche has an arched head composed of plain reset voussoirs and contains loose fragments.