The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Yorkshire, East Riding (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
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Speeton is a village in North Yorkshire which lies mid-way between Filey and Bridlington. Formerly in the East Riding, it is now North Yorkshire's most easterly settlement. Pevsner & Neave describe the church as ‘The simplest of buildings…' and largely early C12 (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 708.) It has a small W tower, nave and chancel; the roof is continuous over nave and chancel. The church is about 110m above sea level and within a mile of the coast. It is no doubt sited in a hollow for protection from storms: there are no windows to the N or E, and there were none on the W wall until two were created in 1910. The nave is approx. 4.5m x 6.8m, the chancel about half that area.
No burials are apparent in the field and it seems there never have been any, corpses being carried to Bridlington priory (Sykes, n.d.). The church was never restored agressively, but there have been repairs and rebuildings on the old plan. In this way, two carved stones have been recovered from the W and the S walls. The VCH notes use of chalk along with the stone - there is a little in the W wall, but it is not visible as a major component as it is in some farm buildings in the village; chalk in this region is hard, but better kept for interior use in a church. In parts of the discontinuous double plinth the lower course includes cobbles from the beach.
Of our period are the round-headed bell openings in the unbuttressed tower; plain Norman chancel arch; font; two reset carved stones in N wall of nave.
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The church has W tower; nave with N aisle and a N transept or chapel; chancel, but no chancel arch. Entrance is by the N doorway; the S doorway is blocked at least since the improvement in the line of road to the N (now A166). There was a restoration of the N wall and tower by Temple Moore, 1896, when presumably the reset stones were discovered; and the chancel was rebuilt by Hodgson Fowler in 1901-2. Morris (1919, 326-7) does not mention the reset carved stones in the tower or N aisle, but this entry may have been repeated from his first edition. The nave S wall has two small 12thc windows, but these are much altered outside.
Two capitals from the N arcade are reset, its W respond remains; most if not all carved pieces reset in the interior N wall of the N aisle and in the tower are not corbels but are likely to be voussoirs. There is an arcaded cylindrical font.
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The church stands high on the N side of the Great Wold Valley and above the main W-E section of the course of the Gypsey Race stream before it turns at Burton Fleming and Rudston. To the immediate E of the church is the site of an early medieval manor house, which has been excavated (Brewster, 1972; Norton, 2006, fig. 11).
The church, with its W tower, nave and chancel, largely retains its Norman form (Bilson, 1922, 52), although elements were restored in 1870-72 by G. E. Street. It was faced with well-cut coursed ashlar blocks in the Norman technique (Norton, 2006, 55).
There are three doorways with tympana: one in the chancel and two opposite each other in the nave. One of the stones that forms the tympanum over the S doorway is an inscribed sun-dial with an inscription, which means that this church can be dated to c.1109-c.1118. Sculptural embellishment of the building is otherwise almost non-existent, apart from the capitals of the belfry windows and an unusual impost profile on the chancel and tower arches; there are no corbels. The cylindrical font is patterned.
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The tower of St Andrew is from the 15thc, while the remainder of the church was rebuilt in brick in 1768. The interior is Georgian Gothic and was moderately reordered by John Bilson in 1910. The tower has a gallery for the family at Boynton Hall; the altar is in front of the chancel, which is of about equal in length to the nave and contains memorials (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 333-4; Morris 1919). The building is similar to a Danish church, with its painted wooden pews, and coloured and gilded woodwork.
A reworked cylindrical font remains from the medieval church. Outside, there is a small cross of uncertain age, probably Romanesque, reset in a buttress of the tower.
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The church is a neat Victorian building, 1863-4; it has a chancel, aisled nave and W bellcote. This modern church retains several remnants of the medieval building: two small carved heads reset in the porch are later than Romanesque (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 616-7).
Of relevance to our period are an altar slab, a cylindrical font, a possible stoup and a pillar piscina.
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Scorborough is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about 4 miles N of Beverley. The church is by J. L. Pearson, built 1857-1859 to replace what Pevsner described as ‘a mean brick building’ (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 671). Quiney considered it ‘among the great monuments of Victorian church building, not just in the East Riding, but in England as a whole.’ (Quiney, 1984, 29) It has a nave and chancel, and a large W tower. Outside is a font standing on what was once a pier base.
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The church stands on a small but prominent hill in the middle of a large village and overlooking an extensive pond. There is a W tower, aisled nave and chancel (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 618-9).
Most of the structure is later than our period, but the chancel arch has been refashioned from a Romanesque original, and there is a splendid cylindrical font.
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Londesborough village is on a south-facing slope of the scarp face of the Wolds, about two miles N of Market Weighton. The site probably related to the course of the Roman road from the Humber to Malton, but is now far from traffic.
The church is on a natural rise within the churchyard.
The church comprises W tower, nave with N aisle, a S porch, and a chancel with a N chapel (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 601-602). Plans in faculty papers (Borthwick Fac. 1875/5) suggest a 12thc. church with a nave and W tower. Its chancel cannot be traced. Much of the church is built of small pieces of a Jurassic stone.
Restoration is not too extensive, and the memorials of the successive landowning families do not dominate the interior.
The only Romanesque feature is the S doorway with its tympanum. Details on the c. 1200 N arcade recall earlier forms.
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The church has a nave, a chancel and S chapel; the nave is unusually low between the tower and the high-roofed chancel. The fabric, as well as the shape, is very mixed, with a good deal of brickwork patching, and the general effect is light-hearted. The chancel arch, cut away in medieval times, has its odd space complemented by a Victorian screen. The S chapel is also known as the Constable chapel due to the fact it was restored by Rev. Charles Constable of Wassan in 1851, but it commemorates the De Mauleys family. Around its walls there is a pattern of armorials, and the focus is a beautifully painted monument to a Stuart lady. The S doorway was unblocked in the 1893 restoration; the W doorway was blocked and turned into a window. The W end of the church was not accessible at the time of visit. The S doorway, the remains of the chancel arch, the N wall of the nave and some Norman stringcourse, both inside and outside, are Romanesque. The font is possibly 12thc, although not very typical.
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The church has a varied fabric: boulders from glacial deposits, and medieval brick with stone dressings. It is mostly 15thc, with an aisled nave, a choir and a W tower.
There is a small round-headed priest’s doorway, and fragments of more certainly dated twelfth-century reset in the tower. The N and S arcades, although pointed, have details of 12th-century type.