The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Worcester (now)
Parish church
Built of grey, rubble masonry throughout, the church comprises a nave with S aisle and porch, a transept on the S side of the church, a tower on the N, and a chancel. There are Romanesque carved fragments set into the chancel walls both inside and out, and reset into a niche on the N side of the nave; the niche has an arched head composed of plain reset voussoirs and contains loose fragments.
Parish church
Chancel with vestry, nave and S porch rebuilt 1870 and W towerc.1400. 12thc. N and S doorways re-set during rebuilding. Only the S doorway is carved. There is also a carved font.
Parish church
The church, built of tufa with sandstone dressings and of ashlar inside and out, comprises a 12thc. nave and a 13thc. chancel, both without aisles. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway of the nave. The church also contains a plain font, of uncertain date.
Parish church
Built of grey rubble, the church consists of a 12thc. nave and chancel without an arch, lengthened in 14thc., S aisle and embattled W tower of 15thc. which has a prominent corner stair turret. There is a 12thc. N nave doorway with a 14th-15thc. timber porch, a carved font and a chip-carved fragment reset in the tower.
Parish church
Built in faced sandstone rubble, the tower of sandstone ashlar. Nave with N and S aisles, chancel, N chapel and W tower. Restoration in 1885. The nave and W half of the chancel were built in the early part of the 12thc., the chancel being extended to its present length, and the nave aisles added in the 13thc. The only 12thc. sculpture is a relief set into the S wall inside, and the font.
Parish church
Built of rubble masonry with some ashlar. 12thc. nave, later medieval S chapel, W tower and chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N nave doorway, within a porch, in the W window of the N nave wall and on the piscina.
Parish church
The hamlet of Alstone lies some 4 miles W of Tewkesbury. In 1844 Alstone was transferred from Worcestershire to Gloucestershire, but remains within the diocese of Worcester. The church, which is situated in the middle of the settlement, consists of a nave, a chancel, a N aisle and a S porch with a modern timber belfry over the E end of the nave. The nave has been rebuilt, as has much of the chancel; the responds of the chancel arch and the S doorway remain in position from the 12thc building. The remains of a 12thc piscina have been incorporated into the S wall of the chancel.
Parish church
Little Washbourne lies to the N of the road from Tewkesbury to Stow-on-the-Wold. It was part of Worcestershire, but was transferred to Gloucestershire for civil purposes in 1844. However, ecclesiastically, it remains part of Overbury parish in the diocese of Worcester. The church, which is sited on low ground, now stands isolated in a farm orchard. It consists of a chancel and a nave with a small wooden bell-turret over the W end of the chancel. The building dates from the middle of the 12thc, but has been largely rebuilt at later periods and extensively altered in the 18thc. The earlier work is of rubble masonry, but the N wall of the nave and the greater part of the S wall are faced with ashlar. The pilaster strips on the W wall date from the 12thc, as the N chancel window. The Romanesque sculpture consists of the chancel arch and remains of a stringcourse on the W wall. The church was declared redundant in 1974 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Parish church
Built of sandstone rubble, plastered within, the church has an aisleless nave and chancel, of the 12thc. and 13thc. respectively, a N chapel ofc.1560 and a 17thc. or 18thc. W tower. The doorways on the N and S sides of the nave are both inset into a frontispiece that runs the full height of the building; the N doorway is larger and more grandly decorated than the S (the slope of the land from S to N determined that the main entrance should be on the N). The S doorway is now blocked. Romanesque sculpture is found in these doorways, and in the blind arcading above them.
Parish church
The church is of rubble masonry with grey tiled roofs to the chancel and nave. Nave with N aisle, chancel, S chapel and W tower with spire. Restoration in 1876. 12thc. sculpture survives on the chancel arch and around the existing S doorway.