The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Derbyshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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Youlgreave is a village about 12 miles from Buxton on the River Bradford. The church lies to the of the village and consists of an ashlar gritstone structure with coursed squared gritstone, limestone and gritstone rubble, gritstone dressings and quoins. The church features a chancel, a clerestoried three-bay nave with N and S aisles, a S porch and a W tower. The aisled nave with the arcades date to the late 12thc: the round-headed arches to the S aisle are late Romanesque in style and those of the N aisle feature Transitional arches. The piers of the N and S aisles do not align from N to S. The church was extensively restored in 1869-71 by Richard Norman Shaw. Romanesque sculpture consists of the blocked N doorway, the N and S arcades, the font located in the nave, two slabs, one of which depicting a pilgrim, and a head supporting a stoup.
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The church consists of a nave, chancel, N aisle, S porch and a low W tower. The N aisle is separated from the nave by two 12thc piers and responds. The present church belongs to the 15th and 16thc.
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The church is of 1867 by G. G. Scott, but incorporating some of the old fabric from the earlier site (the village had been removed to its present site c.1840 by the sixth Duke of Devonshire). The existing church consists of nave, side aisles, chancel, S porch, the Cavendish chapel and a W tower surmounted by a spire all in the Decorated style. The S porch contains a 12thc doorway (largely restored) and a fragment of a 12thc capital in the wall.
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Eyam is a village best known for its actions in the plague of 1665 designed to prevent the spread of the disease outside the village. It is in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, in the Peak District National Park, 10 miles NE of Chesterfield. The church, in the village centre, consists of a nave, N and S aisles, a 13thc chancel and a 15thc W tower. The N aisle and chancel were restored in 1868-9 and the S aisle and porch rebuilt in 1882-3. There is an important Anglo-Saxon cross in the churchyard. The font is the only Romanesque feature.
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The old church was rebuilt in 1862-3 by Stevens and Robinson. The only medieval feature remaining in the building is a Romanesque tympanum belonging to the S doorway but rebuilt into the interior N wall of the aisle.
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Melbourne is a market town in the South Derbyshire district, 7 miles S of the centre of Derby. The church is on the S side of the town centre, alongside Melbourne Hall. It is by far the most ambitious Norman parish church in the county, perhaps the whole country. It was built entirely of the local millstone grit, an Namurian sandstone similar to Ashover Grit (Stanley, 175), and has a 5-bay aisled nave with a 2-tower W narthex, a crossing tower with transepts and a 2-bay unaisled chancel. The original chancel was of 2 storeys with blind arcading on the upper storey that survives for one bay on either side, and steep roof with 2 registers of openings into the crossing, which were removed and their arches blocked and windows inserted, apparently at different dates in the 14thc (S) and 15thc (N). It is substantially Norman except for the upper stages of the crossing tower, and windows in the aisles, transepts and chancel. It was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott from 1859-62.
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Staveley is a town in NE Derbyshire, in the Chesterfield district, 5 miles NE of Chesterfield itself. The church is in the town centre and consists of an aisled nave with a S porch, a chancel with the Frecheville chapel alongside it and a W tower. The oldest part is the base of the 13thc tower (the upper parts are 15thc and later), and a 13thc S doorway. The S aisle was added in the 14thc and the N aisle and S porch were by St George Gilbert Scott as part of his major restoration of 1864-66. The Frecheville chapel was added in the 17thc. The key Norman features are two fonts, and a corbel head near the high altar.
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Monyash is a small village about five miles W of Bakewell and the church lies to the E of the village. It was founded in c.1198 but was extensively altered during the centuries. The structure was built of coursed limestone rubble with gritstone dressings and quoins; it consists of a chancel rebuilt in 1884-7 by William Butterfield, a S and a N transept, an aisled nave, a S porch and a W tower. The only Romanesque feature here is the head reset in the later sedilia and piscina.
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Stanton by Dale is a village about three miles S of Ilkeston. The church lies to the N of the village and consists of a coursed squared gritstone building comprising a chancel, a nave with a N aisle and a S porch, a N vestry and a W tower. The building was extensively restored in 1872, when the chancel and the N aisle were extended and several Romanesque pieces of the original church were re-employed in the altered structure. The surviving Romanesque elements consist of three fragments of three 12thc incised sepulchral crosses, which are reset into the exterior N wall of the N aisle and into the churchyard wall, and the tympanum of the S doorway.
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Cubley is a village about six miles S of Ashbourne. The church lies to the S of the village and it is situated on the confluence of the Brooks Cubley and Bentley. The building consists of a coursed squared and rubble sandstone ashlar structure with stone dressings. The original 11thc church was altered from the late 12thc, when the present nave was built: the chancel and the S aisle date to the 13thc, whilst the W tower was added in the 15thc. The church was extensively restored by James Piers St Aubyn in 1872-4, and again in 1909. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is found on the late 12thc nave arcade.