The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
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Frickley is a deserted medieval village about a mile W of Hooton Pagnell. Frickley church now stands alone, S of Frickley Hall, surrounded by fields and approached by a gated country road. Of creamy stone, the church consists of chancel, nave with N and S aisles, S transept, S porch, W unbuttressed and battlemented tower with short recessed spire. Much of the existing building is 13thc in date with Perpendicular windows on the N. The only Romanesque sculpture is found in the chancel arch.
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Fishlake is now a satellite village of Doncaster, but in the 12thc. it was a small settlement in the vast area of fen around the Humber. Drainage works from the 17thc. onwards mean that the River Don no longer threatens to undermine the church as it did in times past, and a high dyke now overlooks it.
St Cuthbert’s is spacious, with a W tower, nave and aisles and chancel, with a mainly Perpendicular fenestration. It is almost entirely late Gothic, but retains its Romanesque nave doorway, which is recognised by Pevsner as 'perhaps the most lavishly decorated in Yorkshire'. There is also a plain S doorway to the chancel but no other visible 12thc. remains. During re-roofing work on the S aisle some time after 2001, the lowest parts of a row of window openings in the S wall of the nave could be seen; these could have been Romanesque, and recalled the situation at Hatfield (West Yorkshire).
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‘A surprisingly large, dominating cruciform church with a crossing tower so big and proud that it might stand in Somerset’ - Pevsner 1967, 254.
The church is cruciform with a central tower, an aisled nave and chapels flanking the chancel.
The church has a round-headed, late twelfth-century western doorway, a west facade with the remains of walling, and windows on both north and south aisles. There is a doorway on the south aisle, and walling of field-picked glacial rubble mixed with blocks of limestone, with facings and a doorway of Magnesian limestone. There are records of a fire in 1760s and a restoration in 1870s.
On the visit in 2002, windows had been broken and we took pictures of the wooden chests near the windows. Two of them 'could easily be Romanesque' according to a letter from Prof. E. B. Hohler (Norway). The chest shaped like a coffin is of bog-oak, which is found in Thorne Moors.
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Largely Perpendicular in external appearance: nave, aisles, porch, tower but Decorated E window in S aisle, and Early English chancel; Victorian alterations, including Neo-Norman windows in N aisle. The church is built of local magnesian limestone. The SW and NW nave quoins of the earlier stone church can be seen where the Perpendicular aisles were added, and the nave seen from the S recalls the proportions of the nave at High Melton.
Romanesque work can be viewed only in the interior: there is a N arcade dated by Pevsner (1967, 253) to c.1200; the S arcade is very similar but has pointed arches.
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Thorne is two miles due E of Fishlake and ten miles NE of Doncaster. The church is in a large churchyard, in an urban setting on three sides, and on the N there are the substantial remains of a motte and bailey castle called Peel Hill.
The church is built of creamy Magnesian limestone, both rubble and ashlar, and has had many parts rebuilt or added. It consists of an embattled W tower and nave enclosed in aisles and has a two-storey S porch. The chancel has N chapel and vestry, and S chapel. The scars of earlier roofs of both chancel and nave are visible.
Among the surviving Romanesque features, three round-headed windows remain in the walls of the chancel. The four-bay nave arcades are pointed and appear to be of the early 13thc, but the bases and capitals of the piers could be earlier. The E capitals are bonded into a wall and could mark the eastward extent of the nave of a preceding church, perhaps the ‘chapel’ mentioned in 1147.
Two round-headed doorways are recorded below but their features make them difficult to date. The window facings, although similar to remnants at several other churches recorded in the S of the Riding, are probably impossible to date. The arcades were recorded as they are likely to be of the same date as the doorways.
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Emley is a village in the West Riding, now in the Kirklees Metropollitan Borough, 6.4 miles E of Huddersfield and 7.1 miles W of Wakefield. The church is in the village centre and is dominated by the tall 15thc W tower. It has a nave with a N aisle and a S porch and a chancel with a two-bay north aisle, with a small vestry N of the aisle. The S wall of the nave is of rough coursed rubble, probably 12thc, and the rest is of coursed ashlar and probably 15thc. The nave may have been partly rebuilt (possibly incorporating an older south aisle) in the 13th or 14th cent, then the whole church was remodelled in the late 15th or early 16th cent. with the addition of tower, north aisle and chancel chapel. The chapel was extended to form a burial chapel for the Assheton family in 1632. The interior was restored in 1874. The Romanesque material consists of a tympanum depicting the Lion and the Lamb and 4 engaged capitals, all set inside the church.
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The church lies at the NW end of the stone-built village of Thorpe Salvin. The churchyard wall to the SE is built on a stone outcrop. The church itself is of magnesian limestone and consists of chancel with N chapel and S vestry, nave with N aisle, and a W tower. The nave is approximately 4.57m by 10m (15ft x 31ft 6ins) and slightly wider at the W end than at the chancel arch. Until c.1850 the building was a chapel of ease to Laughton en le Morthen, although for convenience it is referred to in this report as a ‘church’. To the NE of the church but not immediately adjacent are the considerable remains of Thorpe Salvin Hall, c. 1570s (Pevsner 1967, 515), last occupied at the very end of the 17thc.
The church was restored in 1892. Borthwick Institute, Fac. 1892/18 includes plans for before and after the proposed work. At this time the eastern parts of the building were dug out of the raised churchyard, and gutters laid: this work was not done around the porch or the tower. A vestry was built on the S side of the chancel, which may not have affected the Romanesque parts (though rubble walling shows on either side of it), but the font was moved from the chancel to a prepared semicircular plinth of two steps at the foot of the tower arch, thus taking it into the area still liable to damp.
Romanesque sculpture remains on the S doorway, the tower arch, chancel arch and N arcade, and on the unusual font.
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Stainton is two miles W of Tickhill and eight miles E of Rotherham. The church is small and has a chancel, nave and W tower. There is a S porch with chapel to E of it which is entered from the nave by a single arch. The building is of magnesium limestone rubble with roughly shaped quoins (Butler 2007; Pevsner 1967; Ryder in Pilling 1989).
Romanesque remains include the chancel arch, window facings in the S wall of chancel and nave, and a blocked chancel doorway; there may be some remains of a doorway reset in the churchyard wall to the W.
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Todwick is a small village part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. The church lies to the W of the village and consists of a 11thc rectangular nave partially altered by the addition of 18thc windows, a Decorated-style chancel, a Perpendicular tower of three stages, and a S porch added in the late 18thc.
Romanesque sculpture is found on the blocked round-headed N doorway, the late 12thc S doorway and the chancel arch.
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The Norman W tower is unbuttressed, and the windows ithere are plain and simple. Herringbone walling appears on the exterior, for example on the S wall of the nave. The font might be represented by a few inches of the rim of the present font. According to J. L. Pearson it was restored 1883-85.