The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Leicester (now)
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
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.
Parish church
Ragdale is one of a group of villages in the Melton district of Leicestershire that form the civil parish of Hoby with Rotherby. The fourth member of the group is Brooksby. Ragdale is 5 miles W of Melton Mowbray, and the ironstone church consists of a chancel (rebuilt in 1767), a nave with a S arcade and a S porch (also of 1767 stylistically), and a W tower heightened in brick in the 18thc. The font appears 12thc but may be later, and the church also contains a fragmentary bust under an arch.
Parish church
Thorpe Arnold is a farming village in the Melton district of NE Leicestershire, a mile to the NE of Melton Mowbray. The church stands on the S side of the A607, which is the main road through the village. It is built of coursed, squared ironstone and limestone with limestone dressings, and consists of a chancel, aisled nave, S porch and W tower. The chancel dates from the early 14thc, The nave has 3 bay arcades with octagonal piers and moulded capitals. A clerestorey was added in the 15thc. The tower was rebuilt in 1875-76 by R W Johnson, along with the S aisle, the porch and the chancel arch. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church
Thurcaston is a village in the Charnwood district of the county, 4 miles N of Leicester. The church is on the southern edge of the village and is built of granite and slate rubble with stone dressings. It consists of a W tower, nave with N aisle and S porch, and a chancel with a N chapel. The nave is datable to the first half of the 12thc (see the S doorway), next comes the lower part of the W tower with an arch to the nave with capitals of c.1200.The top of the tower is 15thc. A N aisle was added in the late 13thc, but the present arcade is 15thc work, as are the chancel chapel arcade and the S porch. Finally the chancel is of c.1300. The only Romanesque features included here are the S nave doorway and the tower arch.
Parish church
Tugby is a village in the Harborough district of E Leicestershire, 12 miles E of Leicester and 11 miles S of Melton Mowbray. The church is built of ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, and consists of a 4-stage tower, a nave with S aisle, S porch and clerestorey and a chancel with a S chapel. The tower is Romanesque in its entirety but includes work of two periods. The narrow W doorway and window above it belong to the original campaign, but the buttresses and associated stringcourse, the rendered top storey with its bell-openings and corbel table as well as a reset window in the S wall of the 2nd storey belong to a later modification. The S doorway is of the later 12thc and its porch was added in a Romanesque style in 1873, re-using some Romanesque material. The chancel chapel has a S doorway of the late 12thc reset in 1857-58 when the church was restored and the chancel largely rebuilt. This restoration also involved the rebuilding of the early 14thc nave arcade.
Parish church
Ashby Folville is a village in the Melton district of E Leicestershire, 8 miles SW of Melton Mowbray and 9 miles NE of Leicester. The church is in the village centre and consists of an aisled and clerestoreyed nave wirh a S porch, a chancel with a S chapel and a W tower. The N aisle is 13thc but was extended W by one bay in the 14thc, when the S aisle was added. The chancel is also 14thc and the tower and nave clerestorey are both 15thc. Construction is of ironstone ashlar except for the limestone W tower, and the church was restored in 1875 and 1885-1913 by John Ely of Mnachester. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
Hathern is a village in the Charnwood district of NW Leicestershire, just over 2 miles NW of Loughborough. The church, close to the centre of the villlage, is of mixed rubble with ashlar derssings and consists of a nave with clerestorey and 4-bay aisles, a S porch and a W tower. The chancel has a N chapel now housing an organ and there is a N vestry. The earliest of the fabric is 14thc, and the clerestorey and tower were added in the 15thc. There was a restoration by Joseph Mitchell of Sheffield in 1861-62. The only Romanesque features are an arcaded font and a loose triple scallop capital.
Parish church
Horninghold in a small village 7 miles NE of Market Harborough. The church, dating from the first half of the 12thc, comprised nave, chancel and tower. When aisles were added in the 13thc. the S doorway was preserved and reset in the new S wall. The tower was rebuilt in the late 13thc, with a short broach-spire. The S doorway has the only surviving Romanesque sculpture.
Parish church, former
Allexton is a village in the Harborough district of E Leicestershire, alongside the Eye Brook which forms the border with Rutland. It is 15 miles E of Leicester but the closest town of any size is Corby, 9 miles to the S. The village consists of the church and a few houses dispersed along the main street. The church as it stands today consists of an aisled nave, chancel with a N porch and a W tower. Following Pevsner's analysis, the N arcade was added to the nave c.1160 and the chancel arch c.1180. The nave was extended W by one bay and a S arcade added in the 14thc. In the 15thc, a W tower was added within the W bay of the nave, effectively blocking it off., so that when the aisle bays were removed at the W end, the blocked arches remained visible. In a restoration of 1862, the Norman N arcade was rebuilt retaining the old materials, but the chancel arch was replaced , keeping only the responds and their capitals. The aisles were also rebuilt in 1862, and dormers added. Construction is of coursed and rubble ironstone with limestone dressings. The only Romanesque features recorded here are the N arcade and the chancel arch.The church was made redundant in March 2000 and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust the following month.