The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Derby (now)
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
Somersal Herbert is a hamlet in the SW of the county, in the Derbyshire Dales district 7½ miles S of Ashbourne but only 3 miles E of Uttoxeter in the neighboring county of Staffordshire. The church is in the centre of the settlement.
The medieval church, as described by Cox, consisted simply of nave and chancel with a bell turret on the W gable. It was rebuilt to the same design in 1836, and again by C J Neale of Mansfield in 1874 , while the tower was added in 1912. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church
The church is memorable for its fine, tall steeple. The tower also contains a showy 13thc W door. The chancel is also 13thc but had sedilia inserted into it in the 15thc, with the same design as nearby Horsley. Only the S doorway is Romanesque.
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
Stanton by Bridge is in the South Derbyshire district, 5½ miles S of the centre of Derby, the bridge in question being Swarkestone Bridge, a 13thc bridge over the Trent and its marshy flood plain linking the villages of Stanton and Swarkestone to the N. The church is on the W edge of the village and consists of a nave, north aisle, south porch and chancel, with a bell turret on the west gable. The building underwent general restoration in 1865-66 by Ewan Christian, who added the bellcote. The fabric contains Anglo-Saxon stones including some interlace, and impressive long-and short work on the SW angle of the nave. The west window and wall and perhaps the chancel arch are Norman, along with the Norman south doorway. The rest of the church is later 13th century.
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
The church consists of a chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and a tower at the W end. The current church is predominantly of the 14thc, including the S aisle with an arcade of octagonal piers, and Perpendicular E windows. The tower, the N aisle and other windows were added in the 19thc c.1842.
The only Romanesque feature is a lintel, found on the exterior of the E wall of the N aisle.
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
The church consists of a nave, chancel, N aisle, S porch and a low W tower. The N aisle is separated from the nave by two 12thc piers and responds. The present church belongs to the 15th and 16thc.