The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Cornwall (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
Parish church
The church is of standard Cornish aisled type, a S arcade of polyphant and a slightly late N arcade of granite. Nothing remains from the Romanesque church except the font.
Parish church
A 14thc. tower survives from an earlier chapel, the building itself is the work of Sir Henry Trecarrell in 1511-24, entirely of granite, and externally highly ornate.The font base is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church
Sedding noticed some wrought stonework from the Norman arcade in the N and S walls of the present 15thc. church; otherwise nothing Romanesque survives except the font.
Parish church
Lezant is in the N division of the Hundred of East, four and a half miles S of Launceston. Although the church of St Michael is built in the Gothic style, traces of the Norman church remain at the E end. The two E buttresses with chamfered angles are original, as is the set-off or base on which the walls are built. The N and S chancel walls are also Norman. The W wall of the N aisle contains the inner arch and jambs of a 12thc window, which was probably removed from another wall in the church. The font is the only Romanesque sculptured feature.
Parish church
The church comprises a 14thc S and a standard 15thc N aisle, with ancient wagon roofs. The building retains a Romanesque font.
Parish church
In the medieval period Lelant developed as an important seaport on the west bank of the Hayle estuary in West Cornwall. It declined in importance when the estuary silted up, and its role was taken over by St Ives, which became an important fishing village in the 19th century.
According to John Culver’s pamphlet, Richard Fitzgerald built the first Norman church on the site at Lelant. Richard was the son of Robert, Count of Mortain, the Lord of the Manor of Ludgan Lees, and who was appointed by his half brother William the Conqueror to take charge of his part of Cornwall. The church originally consisted of nave with a single narrow aisle on the north side, plus a detached tower, and is thought to have been built around 1100 AD. According to Canon Paul Taylor’s ‘Parochial History of Cornwall’ the nave of the church was probably about 36 ft long by 13 ft wide, with an arcade of three bays and north aisle, and a chancel narrower than the nave. The community of Lelant and St Ives was prosperous (St Ives had no church of its own), and in due course there was a need for a larger church.St Uny was granted in 1150 to Tywardreath Priory, and in 1272 to the Bishop of Exeter. A new north chancel aisle was apparently built around the existing one, incorporating one existing 12th century bay, and a south aisle added to match. The nave was extended at the west end to connect with the tower, and the distance between the two elements necessitated an arch with a shorter span in this location. All this was complete by 1424 when, by tradition, the church was rededicated, although no records of this have been found.
Thus, the church now consists of a nave and chancel, with N and S aisles which form continuos arcades of six bays. There is a C15th porch to the S aisle and a W tower of three stages. Apart from bay 5 of the N aisle, which is the remaining C12th arch and columns, the church is largely C15th.construction is of granite and mixed rubble. The only other Romanesque feature is the font. The church was restored by J. D.Sedding in 1872-3, when the roofs of the chancel and N aisle were renewed, and those of the nave and the S aisle repaired.
St Uny Church is in a prominent position above the dunes to the W side of the Hayle estauary, and overlooks the estuary to the east and the open sea to the north.
Parish church
The northern half of the cruciform Norman church remains, although much rebuilt; the E window of the N transept retains its original jambs and sill, and inside arch. The font is the only Romanesque sculptural feature.
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The church is 19thc, architect George Wightwick. The font is 12thc.
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Poughill is a small village about one mile NE of Bude. The church lies in the centre of the village, but nothing remains of the original Norman building above ground as in 1928 the foundations of a cruciform, aisleless structure were brought to light. The present structure consist of a chancel, a nave and a N aisle, all built in the 14thc, a S aisle, a S porch and a W tower, which were erected in the 15thc, and a N vestry added in the 19thc. The only surviving Romanesque pieces are the plain, uncarved water stoup in the S porch, the plain, unsculpted bowl found outside the porch, and the carved font in the W tower.