The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Dorset (now)
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel and S chapel, rebuilt 1907-13; a 13th-c N transept and nave, with a late 13th-c W porch; a S transept rebuilt in the 15thc and 16thc; and a central tower, heightened in the 15thc.
Parts of the arches of the tower crossing may be 12thc in origin.
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel rebuilt in neo-Norman style in 1874; a S aisle to chancel built 1902; a nave, rebuilt c.1834; a S aisle to nave and S porch of 1902, and a N aisle of 1815.
The re-used nave S door and the font are all that survive of the 12thc church.
Parish church
Only remnants of the N wall to the chancel of the 12thc church survive, together with a possible N doorway to the nave, and the font. The present building consists of a chancel, extended in the 13thc and rebuilt in the 15thc and 19thc; a 13thc nave; a late-14thc S porch and W tower; and an early 15thc S chapel with a 2-bay arcade into the nave.
Parish church
The present chapel was built in 1841 to replace a medieval chapel, the ruins of which lie just under a mile to the NNE. The church guide states that the font was brought from that old chapel.
Parish church
The fabric of the church is 12thc in origin, much rebuilt in the 17thc, when the porch may have been added, and restored in 1879. The present building consists of a chancel, nave and S porch.
Parish church
The 12thc church no longer survives. The present church was built c.1849, a little to the north of the site of the medieval one. It comprises a chancel with S chapel, a nave and N porch.
Parish church
Nothing survives of a Romanesque building. The present church is of the 15thc and consists of a chancel, nave with N and S aisles, a S porch and a W tower. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
There are no visible remains of the 12thc church. The present building consists of a late 15thc chancel and nave, both extensively rebuilt in 1854, and a S tower-entrance, also probably of c.1470-80.
The church contains a font made from a drum carved in the pre-Conquest period. The drum was turned upside down and repurposed probably in the 12thc.
Parish church
Yetminster is a village about four miles SW of of Sherborne on the River Wriggle. The church lies to the S of the village, but the late 12thc structure no longer survives except for what appear to be the footings to the earlier chancel extending about two-thirds of the way along and beneath the present chancel, dated to c.1300. The remainder of the existing church comprises a nave, a N and a S aisle, a S porch and a W tower, all built between c.1460-70. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is found on a base of a font located in the W wall of the S aisle.
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Netherbury is a small village by the River Brit about two miles S of Beaminster. The church lies to the N of the village, but nothing of the 12thc building survives except the font. The present building consists of a rubble-stone and ashlar structure featuring a nave with mid 14thc N and S arcades, early 15thc N and S aisles, a 15thc W tower of three stages, a 15thc chancel with a N vestry, an organ chamber added to the N in 1894 and a S porch rebuilt in 1848. The only Romanesque sculpture surviving is the font.