The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Hertfordshire (now)
Parish church
The church has a chancel with an organ chamber on the N, nave with N vestry and S porch,
and W tower. The nave and chancel are the same width and there is no chancel arch.
The chancel and W tower are 14thc. the organ chamber, vestry and S porch are 19thc.
The church is built of coursed flint and stone rubble and Barnack stone. Some of the
nave walling survives from the original 12thc. church. 12thc. sculpture is found on a
pillar piscina and a reset fragment in the S wall of the nave.
Parish church
The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles and N porch, and W tower with a
vestry attached on the S. The church was rebuilt by William Butterfield in 1870-72.
Some parts of the older stucture were retained. The S aisle is 14thc., the first two
stages of the tower are 12thc. and the uppermost stage 14thc. The round-headed tower
arch has a chamfered impost, but is otherwise plain. A round-headed window, deeply
splayed, survives on the S face of the lowest stage of the tower and now opens onto
the vestry. On the exterior the second stage windows of S, E and W faces (the E
window is covered by the chancel roof and the W is partially hidden behind the church
clock) have a continuous thick roll with inverted cushion bases (partially restored).
The church walling is coursed rubble. There is some herringbone masonry visible in
the tower walling. Romanesque sculpture is found on a reset fragment in the N aisle.
The fragment is not from the church.
Parish church
The church consists of chancel with attached vestry, nave with
clerestory, N and S aisles and N and S porches, and W tower. The late 12thc.
tower and the W end of the church were restored in 1886-87 by W. White, as were
the 15thc. N and S porches. The original clerestory, which had been dismantled
in 1786, was also rebuilt at this time. The vestry was added at the beginning
of the 20thc.The chancel arch, composed of Roman brick, could be 11thc. or 12thc.
This was preserved when the chancel was rebuilt in the late 14thc. The 19thc.
restoration replaced the wall above the chancel arch with wooden tracery. The
angles of the original late 11thc. or early 12thc. church survive. The nave,
and the N and S arcades are later 12thc., as is the plain, two order N doorway,
The carved font is late 12thc. The church is constructed of flint and ashlar
and some Roman brick.
Parish church
Great Gaddesden is a village in the Dacorum district of East Hertforshire, just outside the NE outskirts of Hemel Hempstead. It stands on the River Gade, a tributary of rhe Colne. The church consists of a chancel with a N chapel, a nave with 4-bay aisles, clerestorey and S porch, and a W tower. Nave and chancel are 12thc in origin. The chancel E wall is stilll of that date, although the windows are of 13thc and 15thc date, and the chancel arch is 13thc. The brick chapel was built in 1730 as a Halsey family memorial. In the nave, the 4-bay arcades date from c.1230 (the S) and the late-13thc (N). The clerestorey was added in the 15thc. The W tower, S porch and S doorway are 15thc. The tower was rebuilt with diagonal buttresses, battlements and a NE stair turret by William Slater in 1861-63. A further restoration of 1876-79 was begun by G. G. Scott junior and continued by Temple Moore. This included the opening of the chancel into the N chapel by a 2 bay arcade. Construction is of flint rubble, covered with plaster, except for the brick chapel and the W tower. Romanesque sculpture recorded here consists of reset stones in the S wall of the chapel.
Parish church
Sarratt is a village in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire (i.e. in the SW of the county), 4 miles N of Rickmansworth and less than a mile from the River Chess which marks the Buckinghamshire border. The village stands on hogh ground extends over 1.5 miles from N to S, with Great Sarratt Hall in the north and the Sarratt Mill House in the south. The church, in Church End in the S stands in what must have been an assarted clearing. Patches of woodland remaining around the village tend to support this interpretation.
Holy Cross is a small church, 12thc in origin, whose plan was originally cruciform. It has a chancel that was extended in the 13thc and again in the 14thc. The church was restored in 1865-66 by Sir G. G. Scott, when the transepts were extended westwards by 1 bay so that the church now has 2-bay nave aisles, but the western bays are slightly narrower. Scott also added a vestry on the S side of the chancel, entered through a door in the S transept, and the S porch. The 2-storey W tower is of the 15thc in the lower part, and 16thc above. It has a saddleback roof. Construction is of flint with ashlar dressings, and liberal use of brick in the tower. Romanesque features described below are the chancel arch and transept arches and the font.
Parish church
The originally pre-Conquest church comprises, chancel, nave with N and S aisles and S porch, and W tower. The thick-walled nave is 11thc and it has a two-bay 12thc S arcade. There are traces of a round-headed window at the W end of the S aisle wall. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 13thc and the three bay N arcade was added at this time. The W tower is 14thc and the S porch 15thc. A clerestory was added in the 16thc. and N and S chapels in the 19thc. The chancel was restored in 1898. What is thought to be the decorated impost from the original S doorway now forms the W impost of the pier of the S arcade. A pre-Conquest carving of a Crucifixion is set into the S side of the wall of the S arcade. This probably formed part of a Rood (RCHME, 1910, 224; Pevsner and Cherry 1977, 372). The carving is discussed in detail in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS 1995, 240-41). Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway.
Parish church
The church has chancel with N vestry, crossing tower, N and S transepts, and nave
with S porch, S aisle and clerestorey. The crossing and lower stages of the tower
survive from the original 12thc. cruciform church, as does the nave and N transept.
The N transept has plain, deeply splayed round-headed windows in the W and N walls
and a blocked arch in the E wall which indicates the location of a fomer
chapel. The S transept was absorbed into the 15thc. S aisle. The S porch and
clerestory are also 15thc. The upper stage of the tower was built in 1867. The
chancel was rebuilt in brick by Thomas Smith in 1840, and the vestry was added in
1880. The nave is rendered and the tower and N transept are of flint and coursed
rubble.
Parish church
Westmill is an attractive village a mile south of Buntingford in the East Hertfordhire district of the county. It has a broad high street lined with timber-framed and Georgian houses, with a triangular green at the W end and the church at the E. St Mary’s is a substantial church of flint rubble with a coursed flint facing and limestone dressings. Long and short work at the SE angle of the nave suggests a pre-Conquest date for this part of the building. The nave has a N aisle with a 2-bay arcade cut through the Anglo-Saxon fabric in the 12thc. The W bay has been fitted with glazed partitions and fitted out as a church hall. The chancel is 13thc., as revealed by a blocked window visible on the exterior S wall. The lancets in this wall are 19thc work. The 15thc W tower 15thc has a Hertfordshire spike. The nave has a S porch of 1876 (added during a restoration), replacing an earlier one shown on photographs displayed inside the church, and there is a N organ room to the chancel. The only Romanesque feature described here is the N nave arcade.
Parish church
The church has a chancel with S chapel, nave with N and S aisles,
S porch and a W tower. The original late 11thc. - early 12thc. church had chancel, nave and W tower. The N aisle is of mid-12thc. date, the S aisle is
14thc. and the clerestory is 15thc. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 14thc. The S
chancel chapel and porch are mid-15thc. There are traces of the original plain, round
tower arch above the 13thc. opening to the W tower and 12thc. sculpture is found on the arcades.
Parish church
The church, of coursed flint with stone dressings, has chancel, nave with S porch, and W tower. The nave has long and short quoins on all angles indicating a pre-Conquest date for the original structure. The chancel is 14thc with a 19thc E end. The tower is 13th or 14thc with 15thc additions. The chancel was restored by Slater in 1864 (Pevsner and Cherry 1977, 278). Late 11thc. or early 12thc sculpture is found on the blocked reset N doorway.