The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Norwich (now)
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St Margaret's has an aisleless nave, chancel and round W tower. The nave and chancel are rendered; the nave thatched and the chancel roofed in tiles. There is a 12thc. window in the N chancel wall. The nave has a 12thc. S doorway under a later porch and a 13thc. N doorway, now blocked. The flint tower is of two storeys, the upper rendered. There are small round-headed lancets in the lower storey; two on the N side, two on the S and one on the W. The upper storey has 12thc. double bell openings in the cardinal directions, alternating with plain round-headed windows of brick with chamfered jambs. 12thc. features described here are the S nave doorway and the bell openings of the tower.
Parish church
The church comprises chancel, aisleless nave and round W tower. All that certainly survives from the 12thc is the W tower and the S doorway. The nave was rebuilt, or perhaps renovated, in the 13thc, as the lancet window in the S wall indicates. The interior of the church was remodelled in the 15thc when a new arch to the tower and to the chancel was inserted. The date of 1849 above the S doorway probably records a refurbishment at that date. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway.
Parish church
Of the aisleless, cruciform church, the upper part of the tower survives with its four (reduced) internal openings and Romanesque windows. Aisles were added to the nave c.1200 both N and S, but the former was later dismantled. The chancel was remodelled in the 13thc and again in 1835. The only Romanesque sculpture at the site is the loose voussoir recorded here, seen in 1984.
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One of the seven parish churches in the Burnhams, the series of villages lying in close proximity to each other in a once prosperous coastal region of north-west Norfolk. The medieval building at Burnham Ulph had a chancel and an aisleless nave. By the early 19thc. the chancel was partly ruinous, as recorded in J. S. Cotman’s engraving, published in 1838. The church was substantially rebuilt in 1879. The chancel arch, pointed and with a keeled soffit moulding, is supported on crocket capitals and is datable to c.1190. There are reused fragments of an earlier 12thc date in the SE chancel buttress.
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The most striking aspect of this simple, unaisled two-cell church is its 14thc W tower. All of the ashlar details in the building's flint masonry are datable to c1300 and later, but the form and depth of the 14thc window embrasures suggest that they were secondary openings in much older walls. The elaborately carved font is the only identifiably Romanesque feature in the church. It is one of a small but distinctive and localised group that are closely related in terms of their ornament and style. Similarities in their design and repertory of motifs indicate their kinship, but there are notable differences in concept and execution between them.
Parish church
The church has a continuous nave and chancel—all of one height—under a single thatched roof. The chancel dates to c.1300. An aisle was added on the south side of the nave in the 14thc and a square tower at the W end in the 15th. A programme of refurbishment took place in 1865. Two circular double-splay windows high up in the N wall indicate that the nave dates partly to the 11thc, although the font at the W end of the building is now the only Romanesque sculpture in the building.
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The medieval church was rebuilt in neo-Norman style by G. E. Street in 1857 incorporating two doorways, the only Romanesque sculpture in the building.
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St Ethelbert’s comprises a square W tower, chancel, nave and S aisle. The N nave wall of the Norman church survives, although restored. The chancel and S aisle date from about 1300 and the W tower is of the late 15thc. The church, including the porch sheltering the elaborately decorated Romanesque S door, underwent restoration in the 19thc. Within the building there is a Romanesque font and also a colonnette, reused as a support for the Gothic piscina in the chancel.
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St Mary's was a grand aisleless cruciform church in the 12thc. Much of the surviving building dates from the 14thc and 15thc, including the present aisled nave and both transepts, but the lower stage of the central tower is Romanesque, as are the four arches of the crossing, complete with their carved capitals and supports. Above the W crossing arch, on the W face of the central tower - which is also the internal E wall of the nave - there are two decorated Romanesque round-headed openings, one above the other, on slightly different axes. They light the two-storeyed wall passage running around the tower, and also look down into the nave. The openings now serve the bell chamber above the crossing.
The unaisled Romanesque chancel had been replaced by 1405 by an aisled structure, which was itself demolished in 1541. The massive timber Rood Screen of c. 1480s extends across the full width of the nave and aisles. Important wall-painting associated with the screen partly survives in the nave, above the W arch of the tower.
The only Romanesque sculpture at St Mary’s is found on the capitals of the crossing, the W crossing arch, the bell openings and the interior of the tower.
Parish church
The church has a continuous nave and chancel which are Romanesque, or perhaps earlier. A N aisle was added c. 1300 and a square W tower in the late 14thc. The font situated at the W end of the nave constitutes the only Romanesque carving in the building.