The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Lincolnshire (now)
Chapel
Heington is a village located 4 miles SE of Lincoln. Of the medieval chapel almost nothing remains. The present building dates to 1865 when renovations by Michael Drury were made for the chapel to become a school. This replaced an earlier chapel which had been renovated by the patron Thomas Garratt in 1619. The massively broad W tower arch has Romanesque responds.
Folly
In 1818 the local artist and architect Thomas Espin, FSA, built this Gothic villa, which is now called the Priory Hotel. On the grounds near the lake is a folly that he had constructed from sculptural fragments, which came from Louth Abbey.
Ruined parish church
The most isolated church in the county, the so-called “Old Church” is not even on the OS Landranger maps. It is located in the middle of a vast sheep pasture three quarters of a mile NE of the village. The nave is in ruins, a pile of rubble amidst a gnarly, romantic copse. The only part of the church standing is the short chancel. The chancel arch, which is now embedded in the W wall, is Romanesque as is the unmoulded S window.
Parish church
South Kyme is a village about 12 miles NW of Boston on the River Slea (also called 'Kyme Eau'). The church lies to the W of the village and the discovery of six fragments dated between the late 8th and the early 9thc, now reset in the E end of the N wall, suggests that the site was previously occupied by an Anglo-Saxon church. The building, as it stands today, is primarily the remains of the 14thc W end of the S aisle and the S part of the nave of the Augustinian priory church. The building was partially rebuilt in 1805 and then extensively restored by Charles Hodgson Fowler in 1888-90. Romanesque sculptural elements consist of the S doorway, three reset capitals and a grave cover.
Parish church
This small church, tranquilly standing in a wooded hollow of the wolds, consists of a nave and chancel with a very short, squat, embattled W tower that barely rises above the peak of the roof. The chancel arch is 18thc but with 13thc responds. Much rebuilding of the walls has taken place. Between 1884 and 1885 restoration was carried out by H. M. Townsend of Peterborough.
The Romanesque material consists of the font and a loose capital.
Parish church
South Witham is a village about 11 miles S of Grantham. The church lies to the S of the village and consists of a small cruciform building with a double bellcote on the W rather than a tower. The nave has N and S aisles with three-bay arcades: that on the N is late 12thc and the S arcade is of the early 13thc. The S transept is early 14thc and the N transept and S doorway are later 14th/15thc. The chancel was built in 1930 by Wilfred Bond on the medieval foundations of the earlier chancel. The N arcade of the nave is the only surviving Romanesque feature of the building.
Parish church
Springthorpe village lies approximately 4 miles E of Gainsborough. The church is comprised of an 11thc W tower, a two-bay nave with a S aisle of the 14thc, and a 19thc chancel with N and S side chapels. There were renovations in 1845, 1876, and 1895. Inside the 19thc S porch is a Romanesque S doorway.
Parish church
The nave and tower are of the 11th century, the S aisle and chancel of the 13th century. The N aisle, N transept, vestry, and porch were added in the extensive restoration of 1874-75 carried out by J. L. Pearson. The W tower was restored in 1892 under C. H. Fowler. Romanesque features on the site are the font in the nave and the capitals of the mid-wall shafts in the west tower bell-stage openings. Additionally, the plain W tower doorway, the interior tower arch and the chancel arch may be very early Romanesque, possibly around 1100 or earlier.
Parish church
The chancel, the S wall of which is entirely of herringbone masonry, probably dates to the 11thc, two-bay nave of the 13thc; N aisle rebuilt in 19thc and W tower rebuilt in 1776. The chancel was restored in 1867 by Ewan Christian and major restoration of entire church, particularly the S walls carried out by James Fowler in 1874-80. During Fowler’s restoration, the S doorway into the W tower was closed up and the 12thc blocked doorway in the S wall of the nave, the only remaining Romanesque feature, was opened up as the main entry way.
Parish church
The church consists of nave with side aisles, chancel, W tower, and S porch dating primarily from the 13thc. through the 15thc. centuries. Restoration of ceiling and chancel area undertaken in 1902-3. The S porch doorway has Romanesque nook shafts and capitals.