The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Yorkshire, North Riding (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
Parish church
The present building consists of a porch, tower, nave and an apsidal chancel. The church was comprehensively restored in 1860, though many of the original Romanesque parts were retained or re-used. These include a chancel arch, arcades, a re-set doorway and several windows.
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Great Smeaton is a village about nine miles SE of Darlington, and the church lies to the centre of the village. With the exception of the 14thc S arcade, the present church is largely the result of the 1862 restoration and consists of a chancel with N vestry, a nave with S aisle, a S porch and a W bell-turret. This is the only church in England dedicated to this French Saint, born in 588, who is the patron Saint of farmers and blacksmiths. The only surviving Romanesque piece here is the font.
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The church is situated just to the S of the village of Great Langton. It consists of a long, narrow nave and chancel, as well as a bellcote. The exterior walls of the nave and chancel have been rendered with roughcast. The surviving Romanesque elements are the doorways in the S and N walls of the nave.
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The present church is a substantial building situated in the SE corner of a large market square. It comprises a nave and chancel, N and S aisle, N chapel, S porch and W tower. The Romanesque parts are mainly associated with the tower, including the bell openings, corbel table and doorway. There are two carved fragments conserved within the church.
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The present church is a substantial building consisting of a rather roughly constructed W tower, nave and chancel, N aisle and adjacent chapel, with a further, narrow chapel adjacent to the S porch. There was considerable remodelling of the church in the 14th/15thc, including the chancel and the lower stages of the tower. Some comprehensive restoration work was carried out in 1870. The Romanesque parts consist of an arcade between the nave and N aisle, and the remains of a window.
Parish church
This relatively substantial building comprises a chancel, nave, N and S aisles, and W tower. With the exception of the remains of the late 17th-c Leake Hall, currently used as a farm, the church is now situated in an isolated position adjacent to the busy A19. All traces of the village that would have surrounded the church have now disappeared. The church currently serves the nearby villages of Borrowby and Knayton. There are parts of the building from the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, though there is evidence of an earlier structure. The surviving Romanesque parts of the building are the tower and the arch between tower and nave. The tower is clearly a 12th-c structure and is similar in construction and design to other towers in this county dating from a period after c.1160. Internal details suggest that the remainder of the church consisted of a nave and small chancel. This can be observed at both the E and W ends of the N arcade. Both the N and S aisles were added in the 13thc but not as part of the same programme of work. The S aisle looks like a later construction and is more consistent with the extended chancel built by William de Bilburgh at the beginning of the 14thc.
There is also a carved fragment from the Romanesque period reset in the S wall of the nave.
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The church stands SE of this N Yorkshire village. The medieval church was demolished and rebuilt with a W tower, nave and chancel in 1821, but elements of a Romanesque doorway were re-installed at the W end.
Parish church
The small village of Hutton Buscel, also known as Hutton Bushel, lies some 5 miles SW of Scarborough. The church, on the western extremity of the village, is largely a medieval structure, despite some restoration work by William Butterfield in 1855. It consists of a 12thc tower, a 13thc three-bay aisled nave, and a 15thc chancel, porch and clerestory.
Romanesque sculpture is found mainly on the tower, but there are also some loose fragments.
Parish church
The church is situated outside the village, just over a mile NW of Boroughbridge. It was substantial restored by George Gilbert Scott around 1870, and now consists of a nave and chancel, a N chapel and N aisle, a W tower and a S porch. A drawing made c.1850 and published by Glynne (Butler 2007, 248) shows a view of the church from the SE prior to restoration, with no steeple, an open porch and the blocked up doorway in the S wall of the chancel still in use.
There is considerable evidence of the reuse of stonework from earlier periods: Roman, Anglo-Saxon as well as Romanesque. The doorway in the S wall of the nave probably replaced a wider entrance. On the L side it is possible to see the original jambs supporting a block with Anglo-Saxon interlace carving.
Parish church
The church now stands in an isolated position, accessed via a track, though during the medieval period the village was a short distance to the SE. The current parish serves several small villages. The present church consists of a chancel, nave, N aisle, porch and tower. The absence of a S aisle creates a somewhat unbalanced feel to the church. A chantry chapel was constructed on the N side of the chancel by John Sigston, the then lord of the manor, in 1343, though this was subsequently demolished. The tower would appear to be an 18thc structure, with the porch added late in the 19thc. The building underwent a comprehensive restoration by Temple Moore in 1893. The original church has been considerably altered though it would appear from the masonry, and from a surviving window in the S chancel wall and also the remains of round-headed arches in both nave and chancel S walls, that the 12thc building comprised a nave and chancel. The remaining Romanesque features with sculpture are the N arcade and several reset and loose fragments.