The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Southwell (formerly)
Parish church
Austerfield is about a mile and a half NE of Bawtry. The small church lies off the village street in a narrow plot, up a gated track. This approach first reveals a W wall with two slit windows (lancets), massive buttresses, and a later bellcote; beyond are the red tiles and slates of the nave, S porch, N aisle and chancel.
There is an early 12thcnave doorway with a tympanum, a chancel arch of the same period, and a late 12thc N arcade. The arcade had been walled up, probably in the 14thc, but was rebuilt in 1879 ( Morris 1919); Pevsner (1967), 87 says it was rebuilt, ‘faithful to the original’, in 1898.