The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lincoln (now)
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Donington on Bain is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds in the East Lindsey district of the county, 6 miles SW of Louth and a similar distance N of Horncastle. Donington is on the River Bain, a tributary of the Witham, and the church faces the main road through the village. The unbuttressed W tower of this church is Romanesque, but the bulk of the rest of the structure, consisting of nave and chancel, has been restored. The N nave aisle was removed c. 1779 and the chancel was restored in 1868. The baptismal font is Romanesque and bears a rudimentary carved design.
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Friskney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 12 miles NE of Boston and just over 3 miles NW of the coast. The church stands at the N end of the village centre. It is primarily a Perpendicular church with W tower, nave with five-bay side aisles, clerestory, and a long chancel. The tower is Norman in its lowest parts, the next stages are 13thc and the remainder is Perp. The tower staircase doorway is 12thc as are the N doorway of the nave, fragments of an arch re-used as a base in the churchyard, and a fragment of a grave-cover in the churchyard wall. The aisles were rebuilt by Butterfield in 1879.
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Tealby is a picturesque village in the western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, 3 miles E of Market Rasen and 15 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is built mainly of ironstone rubble and stands at the E end of the village centre. It consists of a 12thc W tower with a 15thc top storey, a 14thc nave with four-bay N and S arcades and and a S porch, and a long chancel. The church was restored by James Fowler in 1871-2, the tower was restored in 1884, and the chancel roof in 1891. The lower part of the W tower has a Romanesque W doorway, a small W window, and a tower arch into nave. In the W wall of the nave, above and to the N of the tower arch, is a plain, round-headed opening, presumably a doorway. This is completely plain and is not recorded here although it appears in a photograph.
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Haltham is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 4 miles S of Horncastle and 17 miles E of Lincoln. The church, comprises a nave with N aisle and a chancel. Construction is of squared greenstone coursed rubble with limestone ashlardressings, and red brick patching and gables. The oldest parts are 12thc and its was restored in 1880 and 1891. It has been redundant since 1977, and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S nave doorway.
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North Scarle is a village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, 8 miles W of Lincoln and 2 miles E of the River Trent, which forms the boundary with Nottinghamshire. The church stands on the western edge of the village and is primarily a 13thc. building consisting of W tower with 14thc. top, four bay nave with N and S aisles, and a chancel with N and S chapels. The N aisle added 1895-8 by Sir Ninian Comper. Construction is of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. There is a loose 12thc. foliate capital in the N aisle, and this is the only Romanesque feature.
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Thoresway is a village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, consisting of a few houses, the church and farm buildings extending along a minor road to the SE of Caistor. St Mary's is a coursed ironstone rubble building with limestone dressings and consists of nave with late-13thc. arcades, a N porch, vestry and a chancel. It was rebuilt in 1879-80 by James Fowler, who added a W bell turret with a shirt spire over the W gable. The was formerly a 12thc. tower to the W of the present nave, and the E tower arch remains inside the church. Romanesque features are the N nave doorway and the W tower arch.
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Legsby is a small village in the West Lindsey district of L:incolnshire, 3 miles SE of Market Rasen and 13 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is in the village centre and has a W tower with a N vestry, nave, and chancel. The earliest parts of the building date from the 13thc, including the chancel and tower arches and there are signs of work done in the 16thc and the upper parts of the tower are 18thc. It is built of squared sandstone rubble, and there is a 12thc font.
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Irby-upon-Humber is a small village in the North East Lincolnshire district, 6 miles SW of Grimsby on the A46 to Caistor. It is a small church in the village centre, and is built of ironstone rubble and ashlar with limestone dressings. It consists of a W tower, nave, with N and S aisles, and a short chancel. It was extensively rebuilt by James Fowler during his 1883 restoration. Both nave arcades are 12thc but iof different dates, as is a remnant of a chancel arch impost.
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Owmby-by-Spital is a village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 11 miles N of Lincoln and 8 miles W of Market Rasen. The church is on the S side of the main road though the village and is a limestone rubble building with ashlar banding. It comprises a W tower, a nave with N aisle and a chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N nave arcade.
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Langton is a small village in East Lindsey, 1½ miles W of Horncastle. The church is at the E end of the village and is a small building of greenstone, limstone and red brick. The original church on the site was medieval and had a W tower, whise foundations are visible at the W end. It was restored in 1750 and again, by W. Scorer, in 1890, so that now it is mostly his work. It is a small church with nave and chancel only. A coped coffin lid bearing sculptural decoration was reset into the rebuilt W wall of the nave in 1891; previously it had been located in the chancel pavement, and this is the only Romanesque feature.