The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Bedfordshire (now)
Parish church
The church has chancel (with modern vestry on N), nave, N and S aisles and W tower. The 13thc. chancel (extended in the 14thc.), has a late 12thc. chancel arch with keeled respond shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. The nave was originally aisleless, and the quoins surviving in its outer W wall may date from the 11thc. The N and S aisles are 15thc., as is the W tower. The church was extensively restored in 1875 by Ewan Christian. The late 12thc. S doorway, reset when the aisles were built, has also been restored.
Parish church
The church has nave, chancel, N and S aisles and W tower. Of the original 12thc. church traces survive in the masonry of the E end of the nave. The chancel arch, N and S aisles, chancel and chancel arch are 13thc. and the clerestorey and W tower are 15thc. Romanesque sculpture is found on the retooled font.
Parish church
The church has a chancel with S chapel, nave with N aisle and S porch, and W tower. 11thc. and 12thc. evidence is found in the S aisle and S chapel. The arcade is late 12thc.- early 13thc., the chancel is 14thc. and the nave, W tower and S porch 15thc. A footnote in Pevsner mentions a fragment of 'Saxo-Norman' arch in the E wall of the S chapel.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel and nave separated by a tower, N and S aisles and N transept. There are substantial remains of the original Anglo-Saxon church which consisted of chancel, nave and a square W porch (which formed the lower stage of the tower). The chancel of the original church no longer exists, and the W part of the nave became the chancel of the present structure. The tower has long-and-short quoins visible on its lower W face, and rubble quoins on the upper stages. The NW and SW angles of the chancel also have long-and-short quoins. Both structures have blocked round-headed, double-splayed windows. The windows on the tower, two to each face, lie in the stage below heavily restored, but originally 12thc., bell openings. On the E face of the tower is a triangular-headed opening, containing a reused fragment of Anglo-Saxon carved stone in its N jamb. The nave and aisles, originally medieval were completely replaced in 19thc. 12thc. sculpture is found on the reset S doorway, brought to this site from the church of St Peter de Dunstable (VCH, 25) which was pulled down in 1545 (Lyson, 53). St Peter de Dunstable was sited near St Mary, Bedford.
Parish church
The church, originally cruciform with an aisleless nave, now has chancel (with N chapel or vestry), crossing tower, N and S transepts, and nave with N and S aisles. The earliest surviving feature of the church is the S transept which has late 11th to early 12thc. splayed, round-headed windows in the E and W walls. Masonry of this date also apparently survives in the N transept. The E window of the S transept (unblocked in 1959) cuts into an even earlier, blocked, round-headed window. The crossing tower may also be of early date. The twin bell-openings of the first stage of the tower are late 11thc. or early 12thc. The top stage of the tower has Perpendicular openings, and traces of earlier, round-headed openings (two on each face) flank these. One of these openings, on the W face of the tower, has an arcuated lintel. The chancel is late 13th to early 14thc., the N aisle is 16thc. and the S aisle is modern. The tower arches and S aisle were restored in the 19thc. A carved head corbel, now in Bedford Museum, was found in 1959 when workmen were engaged on repairs to the S transept (see Bedford Museum).
Late 11th to early 12thc. sculpture is found on the bell-openings.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave, N aisle and W tower. The building is mainly 15thc. apart from parts of the nave arcade and N aisle which are 14thc. as is the N arcade. The S wall of the nave, which VCH suggests is earlier than the 14thc. (VCH, 217), was rebuilt when the 15thc. tower was constructed. The font is the only feature with 12thc. sculpture.
Parish church
The church has a 12thc. chancel, with blocked round-headed windows in N and S walls. The quions of the 12thc. aisleless nave are visible on the exterior. The S arcade is late 12thc. or early 13thc., of three bays with one square, early stiff-leaf capital, and one square, plain capital. The N arcade is 13thc., as are the heavily moulded round capitals. The W tower is 13thc. with a Perpendicular top level. Romanesque sculpture is found only on the font.
Parish church
The earliest surviving part of the church is the lower part of the crossing tower which is early 12thc. and which has two plain round-headed
splayed windows, one on the N and one on the S wall. A S aisle was added in the late
13thc. and the N aisle was rebuilt at this time. A clerestorey was also built at this
time. The chancel is 14thc. The nave and aisles were again
rebuilt in the 15thc. as was the upper part of the tower. The church underwent major
restoration in the 1950s and 60s, and the clerestorey was dismantled at this time.
The church was rededicated in 1971. Early 12thc. sculpture is found on the S doorway
to the tower.
Parish church
The church consists of nave, chancel, N aisle, W tower and vestry (the vestry abuts the N wall of the chancel). In the 12thc. it consisted of chancel, nave and W tower. The N aisle and three-bay N arcade are 13thc., the chancel was widened in the 14thc. and the tower was rebuilt in the 15thc. The S wall of the chancel and the S porch are of brick and are 17thc.-18thc. and the vestry is 20thc. The S wall of the nave is the only surviving 12thc. feature, and sculpture is found on a reused fragment and a reset tympanum.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel, nave, S porch, S transept and W tower. The upper part of the tower is 17thc. The lower
part is 12thc. There is a plain round-headed 12thc. window above the tower arch, edged
by a keeled
roll. The chancel was rebuilt in the
13thc. to14thc. and the S transept added at this time. The 12thc. nave survives, this
has a plain 12thc. window to the W of the S doorway. The chancel
arch and several reset fragments bear 12thc. sculpture.