The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Ely (now)
Parish church
Five-bay aisled nave with clerestorey and S doorway under a 15thc. porch, aisleless chancel with N
vestry of 1900, W tower. The earliest parts are 12thc.
(the lower storey of the tower). For the rest, the elaborate S doorway is early
13thc. in its structure but 12thc. in its decorative repertoire. This is
described below, but such other early 13thc. features as the tower arch and
nave arcades fall outside the scope of the CRSBI. The
church is of mixed flint, pebble and stone, except for the N aisle, of brick,
which was restored in 1912. Other restorations took place in 1897 and 1899.
Parish church
Nave and aisles of the 13thc. with Perpendicular clerestorey and doorways to N and S, the former with a
porch. Aisleless chancel with
N vestry, and a tall Perpendicular W tower without a
spire. Construction is of rough ashlar rubble and pebbles. The chancel was restored in 1858 and 1875, and in 1885–88
J. P. St Aubyn restored the entire church. As Pevsner comments, "the church
looks almost entirely — except for the Perp W tower — as if it
had been rebuilt". In the S wall of the tower are two reset chevron
voussoirs.
Parish church
Holy Cross has an aisled nave with Perpendicular clerestoreys, the S aisle wider than the N. The N arcade is of c.1180-90 and the S of c.1300. Although the arcades are of equal length, the N is of three bays and the S of four, narrower and curtailed at the W. There is a broad, aisleless chancel of the late 13thc. with a curious timber-framed N vestry, dating from 1868-69. The W tower dates from the late 14thc. and had a spire up to the 19thc. Construction is of brown cobbles. The only 12thc. feature is the N nave arcade.
Parish church
Nave with S aisle rebuilt in brick, rendered chancel and ashlar and flint W tower. Brick boiler house added
to S nave aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in the early
17thc. after a fire, and again in 1777, and there was a restoration in 1870.
Features described are the N nave doorway and the chancel arch.
Parish church
St James's is a brown cobble church consisting of a 12thc. nave and chancel with a Perpendicular S nave arcade and W tower. The chancel was restored in 1890. The S doorway, reset in the aisle wall and covered by a modern (2000) porch, is 12thc. and contains an important figural tympanum described by Pevsner (1968) as 'barbaric and entertaining'. The chancel arch jambs and imposts are also 12thc., although the arch itself is later and steeply pointed. There is a small 12thc. window head set in the S chancel wall.
Parish church
Bottisham is a village on the N side of the A14, Cambridge to Newmarket road, midway between the two. The church stands alongside the village High Street, and is a very tall and imposing building, largely built of clunch and limestone with some flint in the W porch. It consists of a chancel; an aisled nave with clerestories and N and S porches, the N now used as a vestry; a W tower and a tall W porch with a giant-order arch facing the High Street. The chancel and the lower parts of the tower and the W porch are 13thc, and the remainder belong to an extensive early-14thc rebuilding. The nave has a wooden W gallery. The main restoration was by Charles Papworth in 1839-40; the W tower and porch were restored in 1849-50; the chancel refurbished in 1867 and its E wall rebuilt in 1875, and the S porch was repaired in 1870.
The E ends of both nave aisles have been screened off to form chapels, and in the N chapel, below the touching memorial to two infants of the Alington family, are a number of carved stones and tomb fragments, including the three Romanesque pieces described here: a tympanum, fragments of a font bowl, and a chevron voussoir. There is no Romanesque fabric in the church as far as can be seen.
Parish church
A cruciform church with an aisled nave and a W tower with chapels to N
and S (i.e. a species of W transept). Most of this, that is to say the lower
stage of the tower with the W doorway and the N, S and E arches inside, the N
nave arcade, the clerestorey
with circular windows with plate-tracery quatrefoils,
the S nave doorway and the N transept must date from the early 13thc. The S
nave arcade, however, is older in conception and is
described below. The S transept is in fact a later chapel, and looks 14thc.,
the same date as the upper storeys of the tower. The aisleless chancel is presumably c.1200 but its windows are later and the
chancel arch is 19thc. Construction is all of pebble
rubble with ashlar dressings, and the tower has a crumpled spire.
Parish church
St Martin's has a tall aisled and clerestoried nave, a lower chancel and a W tower. The N and S nave aisles extend to the E end of the chancel, forming N and S chapels, the N now in use as a vestry. Of the present building, the tower dates from the end of the 13thc., and the chancel and N chapel to the early 14thc. There is evidence for a 13thc. N aisle, but around 1500 it was completely rebuilt, and a S aisle, S chapel and porch were added. The porch was rebuilt in 1652 and the N aisle in 1673 and again in 1887, and at this time the N chapel was converted into a vestry. R. Hutchinson, the architect responsible, collected such earlier remains as he found and displayed them in the walls. The E wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1910. Currently (2004) the pinnacles of the tower, damaged in recent storms, are under repair. The nave is constructed of stone rubble, and the chancel of stone and pebble rubble except for the ashlar W wall of 1910. The S aisle and its porch are of ashlar, but the N aisle is of brick except for the W bay, of rubble. The tall lower storey of the tower is of pebble rubble, and the upper storey of ashlar. It will be seen from the above that no 12thc. fabric survives as built, yet St Martin's remains an important Romanesque church on account of the large number of carved stones that Hutchinson reset in the walls of the tower, inside and out, and the exterior N aisle wall, and the curious N vestry arch. There are also loose stones, at present kept in the tower.
Parish church
St Mary's has a seven-bay aisled nave with arcades of c.1200, a 13thc. S chapel, and a 15thc. clerestorey. The chancel is 13thc. and the tower 14thc. with an octagonal ashlar spire. Construction is of roughly coursed stone. The nave has N and S doorways, the S giving access to a hexagonal meeting room, built in 1985 and extended in 1999, while the N, under a 14thc. porch, is an elaborate composition contemporary with the nave arcades.
Parish church
The church is largely of the 14thc., and has an aisled nave of four
bays with quatrefoil
clerestory windows over the piers. The S aisle is
original, the N was rebuilt in 1891-92 by W. M. Fawcett, who had restored the
church in 1876–77. The chancel is aisleless, its
E window (and probably the entire E wall) being 19thc. There is a W tower which
is mortar-rendered, but otherwise construction is of mixed pebble and stone
rubble with ashlar buttresses, except for the chancel E
wall which is of ashlar with brick repairs. Johnson reported a loose 12thc.
stone in the church, but this was not found.