The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Albans (now)
Parish church
The church, which is now a ruin, has a chancel, a nave with N aisle, and a W tower. The much repaired chancel is substantially 11thc. although the E wall was rebuilt in brick in the 18thc. The nave has a 14thc. N aisle of three bays (apart from the E bay which is 13thc.) and did have a S aisle of the same date although this has been blocked, only part of the W respond is now visible. The W tower, which may have originally been 13thc. was repaired in the 18thc. with brick, and the numerous other brick repairs are probably of this date. 11thc. sculpture in found on the chancel arch, on one of two reset chancel windows and on a reset doorway.
Parish church
Little Munden is a village in the East Hertfordshire district of the county, 5 miles N of Hertford and 6 miles E of Stevenage, situated on the W side of Ermine Street (the A10 at this point. Curiously nether Little Munden nor Great Munden appears on the OS Landranger maps, where the church is shown in Dane End. The church consists of a 12thc chancel with a S vestry, added by H. Godwin in the restoration of 1870-75, and a 2-bay N chapel that houses, in its arcade bays, two monuments of members of the Thornbury family. The nave has a 3-bay N aisle of which the W bay of the arcade is 12thc and the other two bays 14thc The W aisle bay is partitioned off with glazing and fitted with a modern spiral staircase leading to an upper storage area. The lower level houses the usual kitchen and lavatory. At the W end of the nave is an organ gallery. There are porches to N and S, added by Godwin. The W tower is 15thc with battlements and a Hertfordshire spike. Construction is of flint rubble with flint facing and stone dressings. The only Romanesque features recorded here are the S chancel doorway and the N nave arcade.
Parish church
Flamstead is a large village in the Dacorum district of western Hertfordshire, 6 miles NW of St Albans and 4 miles S of Luton (Bedfordshire).The village clusters around a junction of minor roads near the junction of the A5 (following the line of Watling Street at this point) and the M1, and the church stands on the high street, in the centre of the village, surrounded by a spacious churchyard. It is constructed of flint with Totternhoe (clunch) facings and repairs in brick and tile. The oldest part of the church is the W tower, of the 1st quarter of the 12thc. This has the remains of paired round –headed openings at the top of the lower storey, best preserved on the E face but nowhere showing Romanesque sculptural work and not recorded here. The upper storey is a later heightening with a plain parapet and a great deal of brickwork repair. The tower arch is also 12thc, but was narrowed in the 13thc, and the nave has 6-bay aisles dating from the 13thc with elegant and varied stiff leaf in the arcade capitals. The highlight of the church is undoubtedly its wallpaintings; both figural and decorative and covering the period from the 13thc to the 19thc. The tower arch and a relief, possibly Romanesque, reset in the nave, are recorded here.
Parish church
Most features of the church date from 1858 or from the 1867 restoration by Butterfield,
but it has a 14thc. S aisle (c.1320) and W tower (c.1380), and a S porch of 1500. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the incomplete,
re-set N doorway and on the font.
Parish church
The church has a chancel with N chapel, nave with N and S aisles, W tower and S porch.
The porch, N and S aisles and W tower are 15thc. and the
chancel and N chapel are 14thc. The chapel is separated from the chancel by a two-bay
arcade. The nave was originally 12thc. although very little evidence of this now
survives. In the late 12thc. the nave had a three-bay N arcade, but only the E and W
responds of this survive, the two intervening piers were replaced in the 15thc. The nave
was lengthened by one bay in the 13thc. The S nave arcade is 15thc. The church was
restored in 1864 by G. G. Scott. (VCH, 377) Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the
respond capitals of the original N arcade.
Parish church
The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles, W tower and S porch. There is
long-and-short work on the eastern quoins of the chancel, and
the chancel may have formed an early single-cell church. The church as it exists now is
substantially 12thc. although the tower, nave clerestorey and S
porch are 15thc. There are two small plain 12thc. windows
with arcuated lintels in the N wall of the chancel and two in
the S. Two reset 12thc. windows are found at the W end of the N aisle and in the W wall
of the S aisle. There are traces of a blocked doorway on the S side of the chancel.
12thc. sculpture is found in the N and S nave arcades and on the
S doorway.
Parish church
Graveley is a village in the North Hertfordshire district of the county, 2 miles N of Stevenage and 4 miles S of Letchworth Garden City. Graveley High Street was formerly the Great North Road, but the modern A1(M) bypasses the village on the W. The church stands at the end of Church Lane on the eastern outskirts of the village and is surrounded by farmland, largely arable. St Mary’s consists of a chancel with a N vestry, nave with a N aisle and a S porch, and a W tower. The nave is 12thc in origin, as indicated by the rere-arch of the S doorway and the doorway that now gives access to the vestry from the E end of the N aisle. Both are plain and are thus not included as features in this report, but photographs are included . The nave was reroofed in the 15thc; its roof carried on low trusses decorated with angels, and the wall-posts carried on corbels. The chancel is largely of 13thc date with 3 pointed lancets on the lateral walls, the tower is of the late-15thc throughout, and the S porch is dated to the 18thc by VCH and the List Description. The N nave arcade and the vestry were added in 1887, and presumably it was then that the N nave doorway was re-used as an interior vestry doorway. The church is face with flint rubble with clunch dressings. The nave roof is of lead and the chancel roof of red tiles. The only Romanesque sculpture surviving here is a piscina basin in the form of a scallop capital, now set in the S nave wall at the E end, under a 14thc pointed trefoil head.
Parish church
Gilston is a village in the East Hertfordshire district, less than half a mile from the Rover Stort, which forms the Essex border at this point. It is 7 miles E of Hertford, but the nearest town is Harlow, a mile to the S in Essex. The church is a mile outside the village to the NW. St Mary's has a nave and chancel in one with a N vestry to the chancel and narrow nave aisles with a timber S porch. The W tower doorway is 13thc, but above it the tower is of 16thc brick for most of its height, with a flint battlemented parapet and a slender lead-covered broach spire. The flint-faced nave (including the blocked N doorway) and chancel are 13thc, the knapped flint S aisle was added or rebuilt in the 19thc, along with the vestry and the S porch. The only Romanesque feature here is the Purbeck font.
Parish church
A flint rubble church with stone dressings comprising chancel, nave with N and S aisles and S porch, and W tower. The nave is 13thc, as is the N aisle. The S aisle is 14thc. The tower is late 14thc – early 15thc. The church was restored in 1872-3 by A. W. Blomfield who rebuilt the chancel, chancel arch, and S porch. The plain font is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
Of 1858-9 by B Ferrey, with the exception of the W tower and the W part of the N wall. A plain, late-12thc font was apparently taken from this church to St Hugh's, Lewsey, Luton on its foundation in 1966, but it was not recorded at Maulden in VCH (1912) or the 1961 List Description.