The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
York (now)
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The church stands on a small but prominent hill in the middle of a large village and overlooking an extensive pond. There is a W tower, aisled nave and chancel (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 618-9).
Most of the structure is later than our period, but the chancel arch has been refashioned from a Romanesque original, and there is a splendid cylindrical font.
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Londesborough village is on a south-facing slope of the scarp face of the Wolds, about two miles N of Market Weighton. The site probably related to the course of the Roman road from the Humber to Malton, but is now far from traffic.
The church is on a natural rise within the churchyard.
The church comprises W tower, nave with N aisle, a S porch, and a chancel with a N chapel (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 601-602). Plans in faculty papers (Borthwick Fac. 1875/5) suggest a 12thc. church with a nave and W tower. Its chancel cannot be traced. Much of the church is built of small pieces of a Jurassic stone.
Restoration is not too extensive, and the memorials of the successive landowning families do not dominate the interior.
The only Romanesque feature is the S doorway with its tympanum. Details on the c. 1200 N arcade recall earlier forms.
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The church has a nave, a chancel and S chapel; the nave is unusually low between the tower and the high-roofed chancel. The fabric, as well as the shape, is very mixed, with a good deal of brickwork patching, and the general effect is light-hearted. The chancel arch, cut away in medieval times, has its odd space complemented by a Victorian screen. The S chapel is also known as the Constable chapel due to the fact it was restored by Rev. Charles Constable of Wassan in 1851, but it commemorates the De Mauleys family. Around its walls there is a pattern of armorials, and the focus is a beautifully painted monument to a Stuart lady. The S doorway was unblocked in the 1893 restoration; the W doorway was blocked and turned into a window. The W end of the church was not accessible at the time of visit. The S doorway, the remains of the chancel arch, the N wall of the nave and some Norman stringcourse, both inside and outside, are Romanesque. The font is possibly 12thc, although not very typical.
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The church has a varied fabric: boulders from glacial deposits, and medieval brick with stone dressings. It is mostly 15thc, with an aisled nave, a choir and a W tower.
There is a small round-headed priest’s doorway, and fragments of more certainly dated twelfth-century reset in the tower. The N and S arcades, although pointed, have details of 12th-century type.
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The present church is a complete construction of 1835 by John Barry. The single Romanesque feature is a reset arch incorporated into a lychgate.
The chapel destroyed in 1835 to facilitate the new building was a small 12thc building with an aisleless nave and chancel. The richly sculpted arch of the south door was re-erected in the churchyard wall to form the main entrance where it has weathered (VCH. Vol 2, 424).
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Extensive external rendering on this church makes it initially unprepossessing, but, as Pevsner said, the interior is a great surprise, with several surviving Romanesque elements. The church was restored in the 1840s.
The 12thc carved features are the chancel arch; reused voussoirs on the S doorway, and reset beakheads elsewhere. In addition, there are remains of simple splayed windows in the S wall of the nave – visible on the interior – and in the N wall of the chancel, and a plain blank arch, rather wide for a tower doorway, in the W wall of the nave, to the N of the tower arch.
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The church has a west tower, an aisled nave and chancel; a S porch off the nave and a N vestry off the chancel. The fabric is coursed rubble and ashlar; the earliest work used sandstones probably of Roman origin, and the later work used Magnesian limestone. There was a restoration in 1876-77 under J. L. Pearson (Borthwick Fac. 1876/8; with plans). The manor house is thought to have been south of the church, at a large moated site over the road.
The church is known for its pre-Conquest tower, the lowest stage of which has been dated to c. 950; an upper stage has 11thc twin bell-openings; the arch to the nave is ‘pattern-book Saxon’ (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 687).
Only one part of the nave arcade falls within the definition of Romanesque; the rest is later. The feature relevant to this Corpus is pier 2 of the N arcade.
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Bramham village runs down a west-facing slope of the Magnesian limestone outcrop. The church, of local limestone, stands in the middle of the village within an irregular layout of streets and within a large elliptical churchyard which slopes gently uphill. The building has, or had, a 12thc nave (although Ryder (1993) recognised some Anglo-Saxon walling there), W tower and N aisle, and an Early English S aisle as well as an extended 13thc chancel. Restoration in 1853 included the removal of a W gallery and the insertion of a wider imitation tower arch, and a Norman-style font. The round-headed W doorway in the tower was removed. (Borthwick Institute Faculty papers 1853/2; Kirk 1936 reproduces plans and elevations from Faculty papers.) Further work was necessary after a fire in the tower in 1874, which resulted in the insertion of new 'Norman' windows and long stones across the face of the tower to bond it. Sculpture can be found on corbels on all sides of the tower, in the N arcade, the tower arch (spurious), and on a loose slab.
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Sledmere is a village about seven miles NW of Driffield. The church consists of a sandstone ashlar building of a chancel with a N vestry, an aisled nave, a W tower and a S porch. The church interior has delicate screens of wood and metal, and pink stone. The present nave and chance were built in 1893-8 and replace an 18thc church, which itself had replaced the medieval structure, enlarged in the 14thc. A range of plans and early views are displayed in the church, but no structure of our period has survived. As Pevsner and Neave (1995), 692, say, in the late 19thc ‘the church was rebuilt on the lines of the medieval building which were discovered on the demolition of the Georgian nave and chancel’. Remains of Romanesque sculpture consist of a series of corbels in the chamber above organ and a fragment reset into the tower arch.
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Skirpenbeck is a village about ten miles E of York. The church lies to the E of the village and consists of coursed rubble with freestone dressings building of a nave and a chancel with a ‘brick churchwarden tower’ (Morris 1919, 285) at the W end, added in the 18thc; the S porch in stone and the N vestry were built during the 19thc. Restorations were carried out during the Victorian period (Borthwick Faculty 1893/25). Remains of Romanesque sculpture include the S doorway to the nave, the chancel arch and the font with arcading.