The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Collegiate parish church
Collegiate parish church
This church has a choir with 13thc. arcades but one pier has a trumpet scallop capital, part of which seems to date from the late 12thc. The nave dates from the 15thc. The church was restored in 1864-7 by Butterfield.
Collegiate parish church
The church has a large 13thc nave with four bays with pointed, north and south arcades. Although the capitals are trumpet scallops of varying quality, they clearly cannot be classed as Romanesque. The chancel dates from the mid 13thc. The only carving that may date from the 12thc is a crude scallop capital, probably reset, at the south-west corner of the chancel.
Collegiate parish church
Of the substantial Norman church on this site, only the crypt survives. A fire in 1694 necessitated the rebuilding of tower, nave, aisles and transepts, all designed by Sir William Wilson and built by Smith of Warwick. The 14thc. chancel and 15thc. Beauchamp chapel were however retained. The crypt has a nave of five bays supported by a central line of four piers. Of these the three westernmost are 12thc., while the eastern pier belongs to the 14thc. lengthening of the crypt under the new chancel. The piers support quadripartite vaults with chamfered
ribs. The transverse ribs fall onto responds on the N, S and W walls, while the diagonal ribs terminate at corbels. At the W end of the nave there is a N transept, one bay deep from N to S, but two bays wide. Its double entrance arch is supported by a massive pier faced by broad responds to E and W. An arch at the N end of the W bay of the transept marks the entrance to the stair leading up to the church. Carving is confined to the pier and respond capitals and corbels, and since these are all vault supports they are described in section IV.4 (Vaulting) below.