The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Rutland (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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The church of St. Mary’s is in the center of this quaint village on the county border with Leicestershire. It is primarily a 13th structure which was rebuilt in the 14th c. and consists of a W tower, nave with N and S aisles, and a chancel with N and S chapels. In 1851 William Butterfield undertook an extensive renovation of the entire church. The earliest part of the church, dating to the late 12th c., is the W bay of N arcade in the nave.
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From its hilltop location overlooking the small village of Belton-in-Rutland, located about 4 mi W of Uppingham, St. Peter’s church is primarily of the 14th – 16th centuries. It consists of a chancel, nave with clerestory, W tower and S aisle and porch. A north aisle was allegedly destroyed by fire before the 14th c. and not rebuilt. While most of the church is ironstone, the 14th c W tower is of ashlar limestone. Victorian restoration in 1897-98 by W. Talbot Brown and Fisher of Wellingborough. Although the W bay of S aisle was rebuilt in the 16th c., the S aisle arcade is the earliest part of the church, dated c. 1190 - 1200.
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Surrounded by a large graveyard, All Saints sits on a prominent rise within the local landscape of the village. The earliest church was likely a single cell nave with a chancel. In the 13th c. the S aisle was added and then the N aisle and S porch in the 14th c. The clerestory and W tower were built in the 15th c., though the W tower was completely rebuilt in 1728-1729. The vestry, to the N of the chancel, was added around 1862 and the S wall of the chancel was rebuilt in an 1887-88 restoration. The nave was restored by J. C. Traylen in 1890. The S door of the nave, chancel arch responds, N doorway in the chancel and the font are all from around 1150 – 1200.
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In the quaint village of Brooke, the church of St. Peter is a stunning focal point with its low but powerful 13th c. W tower of three receding stages. The nave is of the 14th/15th c. while the N aisle, chancel and its N chapel were completely rebuilt c. 1579. Restoration in 1879 by Ewan Christian and James Tait. Remaining from the 12th c. church are the S doorway, the N arcade of the nave, the font and the N aisle door.
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Caldecott is the southernmost village of Rutland about 4 miles N of Corby (Northamptonshire). The church lies to the N of the village; originally a chapel of ease serving the nearby parish of Lyddington, this is now primarily a 13th-c parish church of ironstone. The chancel, nave and S aisle are of the late 13thc; the W tower and spire are of the late 14thc, the clerestory was added in the 15thc and the S porch in 1648. The spire was rebuilt in the 18hc using Weldon stone. During a renovation in 1865 the chancel was rebuilt and the organ-chamber/vestry off the N wall of the chancel was added in 1908. Reset in the S wall of the chancel is a small Romanesque window.
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From the exterior, St. Mary’s is primarily a 13th and 14th c. church with a W tower, nave with N and S aisles, S porch, and a chancel with a N aisle. In 1858, restoration work saw the complete rebuilding of the N wall of the N aisle as well as the reconstruction of the N aisle of the chancel which had fallen into ruin. The interior, however, reveals elements of the earlier church of the Romanesque period – namely the N and S arcades of the nave, a fragment of stringcourse and the baptismal font.
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Situated near the centre of the village, the Clipsham stone church of St. Nicholas is mostly of the 13th and 14th centuries. The original 12th c. church was enlarged with the chancel extended and the tower added in the 13th century, when the aisles were probably added too. In the 14th c. the aisles were redone and the clerestory was constructed. William Butterfield rebuilt the porch in 1851 and in 1855 the vestry was added off the N wall of the chancel. The S doorway, a section of exterior string course and the base of the baptismal font are from the Romanesque period.
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Edith Weston is situated near the SE shoreline of Rutland Water and St. Mary’s stands prominently in the center of the village with its tall W tower and spire. The early church here likely consisted of a nave with a N aisle and chancel to which the S aisle was added in the early 13th c. and the chancel was rebuilt at that time. The W tower and spire date from the late 14th c. and the clerestory of the nave was also added then. The S porch is of the 18th c. and in 1865 most of the church exterior – the chancel, N and S aisle walls and the S chapel – were rebuilt by Slater and Carpenter. The earliest surviving parts of the church, from the Romanesque period, are a section of exterior sting course on the S transept, the chancel arch responds, the N arcade of the nave and the imposts on the W and E arches of the S transept.
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Located at the northern edge of this small, quiet village, the church of St. Edmund, at its core, is a 12th c. aisle-less church, which has been enlarged over time. In the 14th c., a N aisle and clerestory, the tower and the S porch were added. The chancel may have been enlarged then too, but it was rebuilt in the 15th c. At some point the N aisle was removed and the N arcade filled in with ashlar. The spire was added in the late 18th c. and a general restoration undertaken in 1872-73 by J. Tait of Leicester. The S doorway and chancel arch are of the Romanesque period.
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Essendine is a village in Eastern Rutland, located 5 mi N of Stamford. This charming little church dedicated to St Mary sits isolated on the edge of the village. It is situated within a larger medieval site that once included a castle surrounded by a moat, fed by the West Glen River just to the east of the property. St. Mary’s is basically a two-cell 12th c. church which was remodeled in the 13th c. It consists of a chancel slightly higher than the nave and a well-preserved 13th c. double-bellcote on the W end of the nave, a common feature on Rutland churches. Extent Romanesque fabric includes the stunning S doorway, the simpler N doorway and components of the chancel arch, although it has evidently been rebuilt.