The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Devon (now)
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Woodleigh is a parish in Devon in the S of the county in the South Hams area. The small village of Woodleigh lies in the S of the parish, and the church is in the middle of the village.
The church features a simple 14th-c plan, rebuilt after a fire in 1649 and much restored in 1890-1 by George Fellowes Prynne. The fabric is largely slatestone with granite dressings, slate roof, and clay ridges.
The W tower is early, low, unbuttressed in two stages with slight offset and renewed battlements on corbel table. The nave is aisleless. The N and S transepts feature arches which might be contemporary with the tower. The N wall of the nave is plain, and the building is set into the slope on this side. The nave S side has a 14th-c three-light window in cusped. The S gabled porch has an apex cross and a slate sundial of 1707 over the plain and round arched doorway. In the chancel the 14th-c Easter Sepulchre serves as an enclosure to the monument of Sir Thomas Smyth, Rector of the church between 1492 and 1527.
The octagonal font, the only Romanesque sculpture here, is described as 'Norman' by Nikolaus Pevsner and 'Transitional' by the National Heritage List for England.
Parish church
Yealmpton is a parish in the South Hams area of Devon. The church sits in the middle of the town of Yealmpton on the N bank overlooking the river Yealm. Rare Kitley green marble was extracted historically nearby.
The church was rebuilt entirely in 1850 by William Butterfield in the Decorated style. The tower (unbuilt when the patron became a Catholic) was constructed in 1915 by Charles King of Plymouth. The fabric is coursed stone and ashlar, with freestone dressings, and slate roofs. The building consists of a nave and a chancel with N and S aisles, a N and S transept, a S porch and a tower.
The interior is strikingly ornamented with bands of black marble following the lines of the window arches and arcades, dark and light marble bands in the arcade piers, diaper patterns and polychromatic friezes in the chancel. John Betjeman called it ‘the most amazing Victorian church in Devon’.
A new octagonal, red and black marble font in the SW of the church was part of the Butterfield scheme. The redundant 12th-c font bowl sits (unfixed) on a table beside the eastern most column of the N aisle arcade.
Parish church
Buckfastleigh is a parish to the SE of Dartmoor in Devon, 20 miles SW of Exeter. The original parish church, Holy Trinity (https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=113820), sits in a dramatic position on a hill above the confluence of the River Dart and Mardle between Buckfastleigh and Buckfast. The rest of the town of Buckfastleigh lies below, some distance from Holy Trinity. In 1992, Holy Trinity suffered an extensive fire. The parish built a new church, St Luke's, on the Plymouth Road in the centre of the town, at which point the damaged and reconstructed Romanesque font was relocated from the ruins of Holy Trinity to St Luke's, where it now can be found.
Parish church
The church comprises, chancel with S chapel and N vestry, nave with S aisle and S porch, and W tower. The nave and chancel are 12thc, while the S porch, S aisle and tower are 14thc. The chancel was rebuilt in the 15thc (Historic England listing: 1309558). Romanesque sculpture is found on the elaborately carved S doorway.
Parish church
The church is essentially 13thc. and comprises nave, with a N transept and S transept tower, S aisle and S and W porches, and chancel (with 14thc. additions) with a N vestry. The S aisle, vestry and W porch are 16thc. The entire church was restored by William White (1873-89). The font is the only surviving 12thc feature.
Parish church
The church is a 12thc. cruciform structure of coursed rubble, with round-headed windows to transepts and tower. The tower arch is also round-headed. The plan of the chancel and nave may be pre-Conquest. The church was rebuilt in 1508 and the tower in 1731. The church was also restored in 1883–4 (Historic England listing: 1333126). The plain font is 11th or 12thc.
Parish church
The earliest part of the church is the 13thc. tower, on the N of the originally 12thc. nave. The nave was altered and lengthened in 1321 when the N and S aisles were added. The aisles run the full length of the church. In the early 15thc. a N chancel was added. Much of the outer walling was rebuilt during the restoration by Hayward in 1861 (Pevsner 1989, 501). The font is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture. Pevsner records a very worn 12thc. tapered tomb slab with an incised cross.
Parish church
A cruciform, aisleless 13thc. church with a shallow N transept, W tower of c.1500 and N and S porches. A vestry abuts the N wall of the chancel. The chancel was extended c.1400. The church was restored in 1883-4 and the tower was restored in 1897, The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Parish church
The church has nave and chancel in one, S porch, S aisle with four-bay arcade extending almost to the end of the chancel, and W tower. The W tower, S aisle and arcade are Perp. The nave and chancel are probably part of the original 12thc. structure. The two S windows in the chancel, now with pointed windows, may have originally been 12thc. openings. They are deeply splayed on the interior. The rubble masonry in the S wall is probably of 12thc. date.
Parish church
The church comprises, chancel, nave with N aisle and S porch, and W tower. It has its origins in the 12thc. and was added to in the 14thc., 15thc, and 16thc. It was restored in 1869 and 1875-89. Romanesque scultpure is found on the S doorway and on the font.