The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
North Yorkshire (now)
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Weston is 2 miles NW of Otley. A much-added to church (though without a tower) adjacent to Weston Hall, it is located at the S end of the village and within half a mile of the river Wharfe. The church comprises nave, chancel and N chapel, all of broad proportions and slightly irregular. The main impression is of a church fitted out in the 18thc; it has a three-decker pulpit, box pews, hatchments and squire's parlour with fireplace, but of the 12thc, there is a plain splayed window in the S wall, and the chancel arch.
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Gilling East is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, 2 miles south of Oswaldkirk. Holy Cross is a substantial church, consisting of nave, chancel and west tower, though much rebuilt during the 14th and 16th centuries. Surviving Norman parts are restricted to the nave arcades, which have cylindrical piers and square capitals.
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Linton is 8 miles N of Skipton in Yorkshire. Near the river Wharfe, where there is a famous set of stepping stones, the squat medieval church of St Michael has N and S aisles enclosing nave and chancel, and a square bellcote at the W end of the nave roof. Restored 1861 (Leach and Pevsner, 2009, 574). Part of the N nave arcade and chancel arch responds are 12thc., while the chancel arch itself and the S arcade are 13thc. There is a plain 12thc. font. and some reset capitals.
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Bilbrough is a village 6 miles SW of York. Medieval church rebuilt in 'Norman' style, following faculty of 1872. It is entered from the village street on the N side. The church retains the Perpendicular Fairfax Chapel on the S side, but there are no twelfth century remains reused in the structure. According to Crawford (p. 2) that 'A font, perhaps Norman, was taken out of the old church when it was rebuilt in 1873 and is in the garden of the Old Rectory'.
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The church is adjacent to an old course of the river Aire. It is a virtually-complete apsed 12thc. church built of Magnesian limestone. The line of the former nave roof can be seen on the E wall of the tower. There are one or two significant alterations, however. The S doorway was rebuilt in the wall of the new S aisle in the 14th century; the 3-light E window now at the centre of the apse involved removing most of the original inner plainorder, as seen in the adjacent windows; a new window has been cut in the S wall of the apse; the N nave doorway now used as the entrance is not original. For 1882 restoration, see VIII Comments.
There is sculpture inside on capitals to apse,chancel and tower; apse window arches and the chancel arch; outside on doorway and windows of apse, also an extensive corbel table.
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St Helen is largely a 12thc church with a nave, a chancel, N and S aisles, a S chapel and a N vestry. There is a NW tower with a double bell-cote over the W gable. It was restored 1869-70 by Sir G. Scott. His post-restoration plan is hung in the church near the S door. A view of the church seen from the S, c.1850, is hung near the blocked N door (no details of artist or source). Romanesque sculpture is found on the S entrance to the porch; on the chancel corbel table (most of which is enclosed by later aisles); the chancel arch; and on the capitals of the N and S arcades.
Some plain features survive from the 12thc in the W wall. Beneath the modern bell-cote is a chamfered oculus edged by four irregular large stones (compare Askham Bryan E wall for oculus with windows below) and a tall round-headed window, which is also chamfered. A small window with an arcuated lintel survives at the W end of the S aisle, positioned 1.97 m above the base of the wall. This was reconstructed in 1869/70. At the W end of the N aisle, among some reset stones is a broken arcuated lintel, possibly the remains of a window corresponding to that at the W end of the S aisle. Some facings have been replaced.
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The church is a substantial building consisting of nave, chancel, tower, N and S aisles and porch. This is one of only five churches in England dedicated to St Radegund, a French queen who founded one of the first nunneries in Poitiers c. 550. The present building is largely the result of the extensive restoration carried out in 1865, though some of the original medieval elements have been retained. The only Romanesque feature is the S doorway.
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This small Victorian church, set in a pleasant estate village, was rebuilt from 1845. The builders reused many Norman stones quarried from a light yellow limestone and the light grey Hildenley limestone. These stones are now weathering, diversely but decisively. They probably came from the Norman Scampston chapel, on whose foundations the present church was erected (Stratford, 1911, 7); parts of the N and W walls were retained (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 669).
Diagonal tooling can be seen on many of the stones, but no sculpture.
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Whixley is a village in the Harrogate district of Yorkshire, 10 miles W of York. Leach and Pevsner (2009, 753) describe the church of the Ascension as a building essentially of the period 1300-10. It has nave with aisles which embrace the W tower; S porch; chancel with N vestry. A plain round-headed window is the only Romanesque feature. There is also a plain octagonal font of unknown date.
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A much-added-to cruciform church, with transepts and aisled nave, and a central spire. Only the N arcade has any 12th-century work. No Romanesque sculpture.