The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Bedfordshire (now)
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The ironstone church has a 15thc. W tower, 19thc. chancel, N vestry and S porch and a 12thc. nave and plain, round-headed, blocked, 12thc. N doorway with chamfered jambs. 12thc. sculpture is found on the chancel arch.
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The church consists of chancel with vestry, nave with clerestorey, N and S aisles and S porch, and W tower. The church was originally a single-cell structure with a W tower. The remains of two double-splayed windows may be seen in the S wall of the nave, these could be as early as the late 10thc. The first three bays of the S arcade are 13thc. Two more bays were added to the E in the 14thc. - Pevsner suggests c.1320. The N arcade is late 13thc. The S porch and clerestory are Perpendicular and the chancel is 19thc. by G. G. Scott (1852-54). 12thc. sculpture is found on the font.
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A large, mainly 14thc. to15thc. church, with nave, chancel, N and
S aisles of five bays and a W tower. The only 12thc. carved
feature is the font
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The church has chancel, nave with clerestory, N and S aisles, W tower and S porch. The
chancel is the earliest part of the church and is probably
Anglo-Saxon. There is a blocked, round-headed, possibly double-splayed window in the N
wall of the chancel with rubble jambs and head, which support an early date (Hare, 33).
The tower is probably late 11thc. or early 12thc. There are two round-headed windows
with arcuated lintels and rubble jambs, one on the N and one on the S wall of the ground
stage of the tower. The S aisle was added in 1275 and the N aisle in 1310. The chancel was lengthened in 1330. The upper stages of the tower are
15thc. A 14thc. S chapel, now demolished, was attached to the chancel. The clerestorey is 15thc. 12thc. sculpture is
found only on the font.
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The church has a late 11thc. or early 12thc. aisleless nave and chancel, both with
plain round-headed windows on the N. The chancel was extended in the 15thc. and the W
tower was probably also constructed at that time. Late 11thc. to early 12thc.
sculpture is found on S and W doorways, the chancel arch and W tower arch.
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The church has a chancel with vestry and mausoleum to the N, a nave with clerestorey, N
and S aisles and S porch, and a W tower. The chancel, which was lengthened in the 13thc.
has traces of blocked, round-headed windows with rubble jambs and heads and may be
Anglo-Saxon. The windows may have been double-splayed. The chancel arch and the W tower
are probably early 12thc. (the tower has a blocked round-headed window in the ground
stage of the S wall) and the nave was probably rebuilt at this time. Early masonry,
bonded with the chancel masonry, survives at the E end of the nave. The current nave and
clerestorey are 15thc. as is the top stage of the W tower and the S porch. The N and S
aisles have 13thc. arcades, the N earlier than the S. Simple 12thc. sculpture is found
on the chancel arch and there are fragments of string course on the W wall of the tower.
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Brown cobblestone church of late 12thc. to early 13thc. date with chancel, nave with S aisle and S porch, and W tower. The 12thc. tower arch has a carved keystone but is otherwise plain.
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Linslade is on the eastern edge of the traditional county of Buckinghamshire, some 9 miles S of Milton Keynes. The modern town of Linslade forms a single conurbation with Leighton Buzzard (Beds); the two being divided by the river Ouzel which forms the traditional border between Bedfordshire to the E and Buckinghamshire to the W. In 1965 Linslade was moved to the administrative county of Bedfordshire, and in the following year the towns of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade were amalgamated for local government purposes. Old Linslade is a mile to the N of the centre of modern Linslade, and consists only of the church and the hall, immediately to the E. The hamlet is on higher ground overlooking the floodplain of the Ouzel, close to the Grand Union canal that runs alongside it.
St Mary’s consists of a nave with a S porch, chancel and W tower. The nave is early-12thc, with traces of original masonry visible and the original chancel arch remaining (much restored). The chancel is of c1300 (N window, piscina), and the 15thc tower has diagonal W buttresses, a tall polygonal NE stair turret and battlements to tower and turret. The nave doorways (N blocked) and most of the nave windows were also replaced at this time, while the chancel was apparently remodelled and given a new E window in the early 16thc. Construction is of dark brown ironstone with yellow limestone dressings. In the chancel is an unusual early-13thc stone seat with arms. The font is of the late-12thc, related to the Aylesbury group.
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The church, which has a chancel with N and S chapels, a nave with N and S aisles and N
chapel, S porch and W tower was entirely rebuilt in 1898-1902 with the exception of the
early 16thc. chancel and chapels. Re-tooled 12thc. voussoirs are
reused in the 12thc. tower arch. Voussoirs from a second 12thc. arch have been reset in
the N wall of the nave. The voussoirs are irregular in size.There are a number of medieval tomb slabs set into the E wall of the S chapel. One of
these is 11thc.
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The church has a nave, chancel, N and S transepts and a tower on the NW. The nave and chancel are 12thc. and round-headed windows are found on the S and W walls of the nave and the N and S walls of the chancel. All are plain apart from the interior W window. 12thc. sculpture is found on the restored chancel arch, and on the capital and base of a nook-shaft in the S wall of the chancel. There is also a 11thc. graveslab in the nave. The church was restored by Cottingham in 1841-43. Cottingham also built the the tower and probably the transepts.