The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
South Yorkshire (now)
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A large church with at least two main phases of 12th-century building identifiable: at first it had a cruciform plan; later, nave aisles enclosing a west tower were added. Pevsner 1967, 154, says Campsall church has ‘the most ambitious Norman west tower of any parish church in the Riding’. Subsequently, alterations have been made to the aisle arcades, windows, chancel and south doorway. The church was restored between 1871 and 1877 by G. G. Scott (Borthwick Institute Faculty Papers 1871/2 with plan) and piecemeal after. Restoration of stonework on the tower was in progress in 2005. Romanesque sculpture is on the west doorway and tower; one chancel window (inside and out); arches at the crossing; and numerous loose and reset fragments.
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The church stands prominently on an outlier of the magnesian limestone escarpment, with the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle immediately to its west; this was the successor to the hall of Earl Edwin of Mercia (recorded in Domesday Book), and later the administrative centre for this large part of the Honour of Tickhill.
The chancel is essentially late twelfth-century, built of local Rotherham Red sandstone in its lower parts on the S side, and Magnesian limestone rubble elsewhere, though heightened later on. Slim pilaster buttresses, constructed of magnesian limestone, can be seen (partial on the N wall) and on the S chancel wall (to the W of the priest's door and at the SE corner), and others are found on the E wall (at each corner and below the Perp window).
The N arcade of the nave consists partly of re-used twelfth-century material; the imposts and arches are later. The nave, aisles and tower were built in Magnesian limestone ashlar in the late 14thc in early Perpendicular style. The tower and its spire (rising to 185 feet) is one of the finest in Yorkshire.
There are remnants of 12thc features in the walls of the chancel; the N arcade contains late 12thc material. The pre-Conquest tower doorway was filled by a later, twelfth-century, doorway which itself has been blocked.
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The centre of Bawtry still shows the plan of a new town ‘founded within a decade or two of 1200’ (Hey 2003, 146); the church is to the E of that, and was beside the river before that was re-directed when the railway came. The church has a W tower, and a nave with N and S aisles which continue and enclose the chancel. The nave N wall is of irregular small stones, the remainder in ashlar. The present tower is said to date from 1713; it may contain stones from Roche, but no reused stones with sculpture were obvious in either the tower or the N wall of the nave. The church is in a mixture of styles, and a mixed fabric of Jurassic limestone and ironstone, ‘with many unexplained details’ (Pevsner 1967, 98).
Few Romanesque features were identifiable: the blocked N doorway is round-headed; bases of the N arcade may be relevant.
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Rossington is a village about five miles SE of Doncaster. The church lies in a wooded churchyard just off Sheep Bridge Lane between Rossington to the E and New Rossington to the W; it is a Magnesian limestone and sandstone ashlar building comprising a chancel, a modern transepts, a long nave with a S porch, and a W tower. Between 1840 and 1844 the purchaser of the Rossington estate, James Brown, rebuilt the church except for the Perpendicular W tower, the Romanesque chancel arch and the S doorway; he added transepts and a vestry. 20thc renovations added rooms to the upper levels of the N transept. The unusual length of the aisleless nave, approximately 18m between the tower and the chancel arch, is original. Romanesque sculpture survives in the chancel arch, in the S doorway and on the font.
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The site of the church is on a spur overlooking the Don and, from the street names, it was in the core of the early town. It is now a grand cruciform church of Perpendicular period. Built of red sandstone, the Perp. building is closely related to a 12th century church of similar plan. The church was restored temp. Edward IV, in the 18th century and in the 19th century (Hunter 1831).
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Barnburgh is seven miles west of Doncaster. The honey-coloured stone church stands high in a village of which the older houses are of the same stone. It has a chancel with a N aisle or chapel, nave with N and S aisles and a porch, and W tower. The tower has four stages, the lower part including ashlar walling with two windows with one-piece heads; it is buttressed to the height of the S aisle, the roofs battlemented. A plan of the church is in the Borthwick Institute (Fac. 1869/2).
The earliest work inside the building is the nave N arcade of two bays with octagonal imposts and pointed arches. The base to pier 1 is the nearest to Romanesque forms.
Apart from two simple windows in the tower, the Romanesque remains are the two reset fragments of a sculpted pillar, formerly outside the church and now erected close to pier 1 in the N arcade.
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St Mary's is a large Victorian church from 1839 (Ryder 1982, 96; Borthwick Institute Faculty 1896/10), with blackened stone by past industries. It is on the side of a steep hill in the centre of the village (Rawmarsh High Street). From the S, there is a wide view over the built-up valley towards Rotherham. The approaches to the church still have their Victorian railings on all sides. The interest to the Corpus is the S doorway and a cross-shaft formerly in the churchyard (Pevsner 1967), now inside the S entrance (the base of the W tower).
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The village of Wales is eight miles ESE of Sheffield. Of the medieval church only the early 12thc two-bay nave and chancel, and a Perpendicular 15thc W tower survive (Harman and Pevsner 2017). The village was transformed by coal mining in the late 19thc and a necessary extension to the church was added in 1897. The large nave and S aisle were added on the S side, so that the small old building was reduced to the status of a N aisle. At the same time, the Norman S doorway was re-set on the S side of the new aisle.
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Wath parish church lies in a tree-filled churchyard, near the centre of the village, which itself was built around a ford of the River Dearne. It is next to a former manor house, said to be on the site of the medieval Fleming manor, a building that is now the Town Hall. The church has a long nave, with a W tower surmounted by a spire. The tower has lower rubble stages, with early openings to a belfry; the highest stage is Perpendicular.
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St Leonard is located at the north end of the village, on the edge of a county house estate, Thrybergh Park. The church is partly ashlar, partly rough stone. The nave was built between 11thc-12thc (Pevsner 1967, 516-7); traces of herringbone work are visible at the W end of the N wall of the chancel (Ryder 1982, 98). The chancel is of 14thc, and the W tower with a spire, lying in a wooded churchyard, was built during the 15thc. The church was restored in 1871 and 1894, and by 1970 a vestry block was added. Romanesque sculptural remains consist of a blocked doorway on N side of nave, a stringcourse near the doorway, a former chancel arch, and a stone shaft set close to the churchyard wall.