The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
West Midlands (now)
Parish church
Northfield is now a residential area on the S outskirts of Birmingham. Traditionally it was in Worcestershire, but in 1912 the civil parish was given over to Birmingham (then in Warwickshire). Thus for the period from 1912 until 1974 it was in Warwickshire, which was where it was recorded in Pevsner (1966), and why it was recorded by two fieldworkers independently for this project. This report is synthesised from the reports of Harry Bodenham and G. L. Pearson, and includes photographs from both.
St Laurence's is a sandstone church, comprising a W tower, a nave with N and S aisles, the former built in 1900, and a chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway of the nave, reset into the modern aisle wall, and on carved fragments inset into the N and S faces of the later medieval tower.
Parish church
The church comprises a nave with a N aisle of the 12thc. and a S aisle with clerestorey ofc.1300, and a 12thc. chancel. There is also a two-part crypt, rectangular under the chancel, and octagonal under the nave, both Romanesque. The fabric is of red Kenilworth-type sandstone, unless otherwise stated. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N doorway, which was resetc.1350 and is now protected by a porch, in the windows of the chancel both inside and out; on the corbel tables and buttresses of the chancel; in the chancel arch and the N nave arcade, and in the crypt.
Parish church
The church consists of a 12thc. nave and chancel and a 15thc. W tower with a Victorian timber top incorporating a pyramidal tiled roof. Surviving 12thc. features include two plain, round-headed lancets in the chancel (N and S walls) and one in the nave (N wall) as well as traces of what was originally a group of three round-headed windows in the E wall of the chancel. Only the outer jambs of this group is still discernable owing to the insertion of a larger, later window. There are also blocked doorways in the N and S walls of the nave. The jambs and arch of the original S doorway now form the W doorway to the tower. The font is also of the 12thc.
Parish church
The church consists of nave, chancel, N and S aisles, S transept, S porch, N vestry and W tower. The tower and N aisle are Perp. whilst most other features are 19thc. and 20thc. The font is 12thc.
Parish church
The church has N and S aisles, a heavily altered 12thc. chancel with plain round-headed windows, and a 15thc. W tower.
Romanesque sculpture is found in the blocked N chancel
doorway and S nave arcade.
Parish church
The chancel, nave, N and S aisles, vestry, S porch and W tower of the church all date from the 14th and 15thc. The SW corner of the church is now enveloped externally by recently built parish rooms. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
The old church was pulled down in 1869, but some 12thc. stones were reused in the new building of 1871: the plain chancel arch, for example, now frames the organ bay. Romanesque sculpture is found in the reset S doorway of the nave and on a fragment in the N wall of the tower.
Parish church
Large church consisting of chancel, nave, two N aisles, a S aisle, S porch and W tower. Galleries have been inserted into N and S aisles and the W end. Of local red sandstone. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
Aisled nave, but due to rebuilding only the two W bays of the S nave arcade are 12thc., in local red sandstone; W tower; chancel of 1862-3. A 19thc. reproduction in the VCH shows a deep round-headed window at the E end of the nave, accompanied by what appear to be associated shafts. Romanesque sculpture is found in the two W bays of the S nave arcade.
Parish church
The church consists of a Perpendicular nave, chancel, N aisle and W tower. The N aisle arcade is 12thc. The S doorway has reset 12thc. features.