The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Wiltshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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Ludgershall is 16 miles NE of Salisbury and the church lies to the N of the village. The neighbouring castle had to be built before 1103 since King Henry I visited it, and the church of St James was erected in the following decades. The building consists of a chancel, a nave with N and S chapels, a S porch, and a W tower. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 13thc and transepts were added in the 14thc. The W tower fell down before 1662 and was rebuilt in 1675. The nave and W tower are Norman in date with a small Norman window and a blocked N door.
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Only part of the 14th-century church survived the Victorian building campaign. The new 19th-century church contains two items of Romanesque date; the bowl of the font and the capitals used to create the lectern.
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Brixton Deverill is a small village 4 miles S of Warminster. The church has a 13thc chancel arch and a short W tower of the 13thc and 15thc. The only Romanesque carving is the font that was brought from Imber Church when that village became a military training ground in the Second World War.
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Broad Hinton is a small village about 5 miles SW of Swindon. The church dates from the 13thc with a 15thc W tower and a chancel that was rebuilt in 1879. It contains two carved, Norman stones set into the E wall of the nave.
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The church, located in the S of the village, consists of a nave, chancel, N porch, a small chapel of 2 bays and a W tower. The long and short quoins in the N wall survive from the Anglo-Saxon church which stood on this site and probably consisted of a nave and chancel. The font dates from the 12th century and the N door probably from the late 12th century.
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The nave of the church has four-bay, pointed arcades of the end of the 12th or early 13thc. In the late 13th or early 14thc. the chancel was rebuilt and a south chapel was added to it in 1861 by G.E. Street. The tower is Perpendicular in style. The church was restored in 1889-90 by C.E. Ponting.
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Lydiard Millicent is a village about 3.5 miles W of Swindon. The name Lydiard may derive from the Old English word meaning 'gate by the ford' and the complete name is first recorded in 1268 (Lydyerd Mylisent, see History). All Saints church lies to the NW of the village and was possibly built on the site of a pre-Norman church. The present building dates from the 14th and 15thc and consists of a chancel, nave, N and S aisles, and S porch; the W vestry was added in 1924. However, the font probably dates from the late 12thc.
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The chancel arch indicates that some parts of the body of the church date from the 12th and early 13th century, and the font also dates from the 12th century. However, the Romanesque remains of most significance are three carved fragments with clear links to the leading sculptor of Old Sarum in the 1130s. There is also a chevron voussoir from a large elaborate door and a volute capital, earlier in date than the other fragments.
The west tower dates from the 14th century but most of the building dates from the 19th century. The church was reworked by T. H. Wyatt in 1843 and the south arcade was replaced by E. H. Lingen Barker in 1878-79.
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St John the Baptist in Stockton has a chancel with a date of 1840 on the exterior. The nave, however, has two-bay arcades dating from the 12th century, a 15th century clerestory and a 19th century roof. The nave arcades were extended eastwards in the 14th century and the nave was restored in 1879. The lower part of the west tower may also date from the 12th century. The choir was built in the late Middle Ages and in the 19th century. The font may also be 12th century.
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The church consists of a nave, a chancel and a bell-turret. The S door of the nave is an elaborate mixture of 12th-century and probably 19th-century carving. The N door incorporates some elements from the 12th century though their arrangement is later.