The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Norfolk (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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The present church consists of a nave, chancel, N and S transepts and W tower. The medieval structure was in a ruinous condition when it was remodelled in 1852 in the Decorated Gothic style of the 14thc by Samuel Saunders Teulon (1812-73) who added an octagonal vestry on the N side of the chancel. The only Romanesque sculpture occurs on the S doorway. This was retained and incorporated in the 19thc rebuilding, apparently in situ. The base of the medieval W tower and SW corner of the nave also survived.
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Now comprising a nave and chancel, St Mary's also appears to have had a W tower of which no fabric now survives. The church, which has a fine 15thc font and double piscina, also houses the reset remains of a pillar piscina, which constitutes the only Romanesque feature at the site.
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This aisleless church has a thatched nave and chancel. The windows, N porch and W tower date from the 15thc, while the carved Romanesque S doorway surviving in the flint wall of the nave, together with a deeply-splayed round-arched recess low in the N wall of the chancel, indicate that the structure of the building is substantially earlier.
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St Mary and All Saints has a chancel, an aisled nave and a S tower. Of the late-medieval building on the site, the 14thc S tower porch and 15thc N nave aisle have survived, possibly associated with the church erected by Sir Robert Knollys (d. 1407). A ruthless and immensely wealthy professional soldier, Knollys died in Sculthorpe, his chief Norfolk manor, having rebuilt the church. The chancel was replaced in 1846-47 and the S nave aisle with three-bay arcade was added in 1860-61. The elaborately carved Romanesque font is one of a distinctive and localised group, closely related in terms of their ornament and style. Two short chip-carved fragments on the sill of the W window of the N aisle (in 1985) constitute the building's only other Romanesque sculpture.
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Of the previous building on the site, the nave alone had survived by 1848, at which time it was considered very ancient (Lewis, 1848). The present church was built in 1898 at the expense of King Edward VII. Substantially a late-19thc structure incorporating 13thc elements, it has a single S nave aisle and contains no Romanesque carving apart from the font, one of four in north-west Norfolk long seen as forming a stylistically related group. Arguably among the finest in the country as a whole, and certainly in the county, the Shernborne font is, in Pevsner's memorable phrase, 'a barbaric but mighty Norman piece.'
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All Saints has a chancel, nave, N aisle and 13thc W tower, distinctively surmounted by a three-tier timber lantern that may date from the 16thc. In the chancel, the late 12thc door and piscina have pointed arches. The 14thc N aisle has an impressive timber roof. There is a two-storeyed S porch with an ogee niche. The font is the only feature with Romanesque sculpture.
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Consisting of a chancel, aisleless nave and W tower, All Saints presents as a 14thc church, recorded in building in 1327 and restored in 1897. The only Romanesque sculpture there now - the pillar piscina reused ingloriously inside the W tower - might, however, be all that survives of an earlier structure.
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St Andrew's is of considerable significance, both for its architecture and as an institution. The aisleless nave and axial eastern tower, both with long-and-short quoins, are of equal width and are part of the same late 11th-early 12thc. build. The present rectangular chancel is Perpendicular Gothic. The foundations of the former chancel, exposed in the 19thc., revealed this to have been apsidal in plan. There is Romanesque architectural sculpture on both the interior and exterior of the nave, the blocked W doorway and the tower arches. A small group of Romanesque carved fragments is stored in the porch and inside the church.
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The church comprises chancel, aisleless nave and round W tower. All that certainly survives from the 12thc is the W tower and the S doorway. The nave was rebuilt, or perhaps renovated, in the 13thc, as the lancet window in the S wall indicates. The interior of the church was remodelled in the 15thc when a new arch to the tower and to the chancel was inserted. The date of 1849 above the S doorway probably records a refurbishment at that date. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S doorway.
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Of the aisleless, cruciform church, the upper part of the tower survives with its four (reduced) internal openings and Romanesque windows. Aisles were added to the nave c.1200 both N and S, but the former was later dismantled. The chancel was remodelled in the 13thc and again in 1835. The only Romanesque sculpture at the site is the loose voussoir recorded here, seen in 1984.