The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Derbyshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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Bradbourne is a small and remote hill village 4 miles NE of Ashbourne, overlooking Havenhill Dale. The church's Saxon origins are evident in the fabric of the N nave wall and in the remaining fragments of a churchyard cross. The present church consists of a Norman tower, a clerestoried nave with a S aisle and an early 14thc S arcade, a 14thc chancel with a 19thc vestry off the N wall, and a S porch. It was restored in 1846. The 12thc W tower is square and unbuttressed, with ornamented bell-openings and corbel tables with heads. There is a projecting staircase tower in the NE corner. The S doorway of the tower is Romanesque, with three orders decorated with beasts and birds, and with beakhead. The tower's W doorway is round-headed and plain, with a keystone; there is a plain round-headed window above. The tower arch inside is also of the 12thc. There is a reused Romanesque shaft on the S chancel window. Of a Romanesque font only the badly damaged bowl survives.
Parish church
The parish church of All Saints, Brailsford, stands on high ground in a solitary position about half a mile or more from the village. The church consists of a long nave and chancel, a S aisle, a S porch, and a W tower. The tower was build into the Romanesque nave. The chancel is narrower than the nave. The chancel and the chancel arch are early 14th c and the N and S windows are Perp. The chancel arch rests on Norman piers and scalloped capitals. The S arcade also has one Romanesque pier with a similar capital. Another 12thc pier stands one bay from the W end of the church and is connected by an arch with the W wall.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Brassington is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, 14 miles NW of Derby and 6 miles SW of Matlock. It is built largely from the local limestone is built on the S side of a steep valley with the church at its highest point, on the northern edge. This essentially 12thc church consists of a nave with a 12thc S arcade, a 13thc S porch, a W tower, 12thc except for its battlement, a N aisle added in 1879-81 by F. J. Robinson, and a chancel with a 12thc S aisle. There must have been a corbel table originally, and corbels have been reset on the W tower and elsewhere around the building. Other Romanesque features include the font and a reset chevron voussoir in the S porch.
Parish church
Somersal Herbert is a hamlet in the SW of the county, in the Derbyshire Dales district 7½ miles S of Ashbourne but only 3 miles E of Uttoxeter in the neighboring county of Staffordshire. The church is in the centre of the settlement.
The medieval church, as described by Cox, consisted simply of nave and chancel with a bell turret on the W gable. It was rebuilt to the same design in 1836, and again by C J Neale of Mansfield in 1874 , while the tower was added in 1912. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church
The church is memorable for its fine, tall steeple. The tower also contains a showy 13thc W door. The chancel is also 13thc but had sedilia inserted into it in the 15thc, with the same design as nearby Horsley. Only the S doorway is Romanesque.
Parish church
Taddington is situated high on a limestone plateau of Derbyshire's Peak District, along the former route of the A6, which now bypasses the village to the north. The church tower and spire date to the 14thc and the body of the church is 14th to early 15thc with late 15thc re-windowing. The whole church was restored in 1891.
The only Norman feature is a cross shaft and socket stone in the churchyard, described in Historic England's List Entry (1009051) as of 'probable 11thc' date.
Parish church
Long Eaton is a town on the River Trent about seven miles SW of Nottingham. The church lies to the centre of the town and is a rubble stone building with quoins and ashlar. The original church was built at the order of King Cnut the Great in 1025, but was rebuilt in the Romanesque period. The 12thc structure consisted of a nave and a chancel, to which a W tower was added in the 15thc. In 1868 George Edmund Street transformed the Romanesque church into the S aisle, and added to the structure a new chancel, a nave and a N aisle with N vestry. Romanesque sculpture survives on the S doorway and other fragments of similar date reset into the exterior S walls of the S aisle and the chancel chapel.
Parish church
Stanton by Bridge is in the South Derbyshire district, 5½ miles S of the centre of Derby, the bridge in question being Swarkestone Bridge, a 13thc bridge over the Trent and its marshy flood plain linking the villages of Stanton and Swarkestone to the N. The church is on the W edge of the village and consists of a nave, north aisle, south porch and chancel, with a bell turret on the west gable. The building underwent general restoration in 1865-66 by Ewan Christian, who added the bellcote. The fabric contains Anglo-Saxon stones including some interlace, and impressive long-and short work on the SW angle of the nave. The west window and wall and perhaps the chancel arch are Norman, along with the Norman south doorway. The rest of the church is later 13th century.
Parish church
The town of Bolsover lies in the north-eastern corner of Derbyshire, six miles E of Chesterfield. The church of St Mary and St Laurence has a W tower with a broach spire, an aisled nave with a S chapel, a chancel, and a N vestry. It was gutted by fire in 1897, rebuilt in 1898, damaged again by fire in 1960 and restored in 1961-62 by Taylor, Young and Partners. The octagonal vestry dates from the latest restoration.
Surviving from the Romanesque period are the W tower (although the W tower doorway, at least, is Transitional) and the tympanum over the S doorway of the chancel. The chancel arch is also of the period, though plain, and there are six reset Romanesque corbels in the blocked S aisle bay of the nave.
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The church consists of a chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and a tower at the W end. The current church is predominantly of the 14thc, including the S aisle with an arcade of octagonal piers, and Perpendicular E windows. The tower, the N aisle and other windows were added in the 19thc c.1842.
The only Romanesque feature is a lintel, found on the exterior of the E wall of the N aisle.