The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Cathedral church
Cathedral church
The square chancel of the 12thc. cathedral is enclosed between the early 14thc. choir and 19thc. nave of the present Church of Ireland Cathedral.
Cathedral church
A Romanesque impost block with chip-carving and a wheel-headed cross missing the lower original arm are preserved inside the former cathedral church. Along with other medieval stone fragments, they have been kept inside since at least 1906. In 2000, the cross head was repaired and mounted onto a modern shaft. It is presently (2020) sited in the south aisle of the church. The impost block is kept in a room above the S porch. Restoration work on the church was carried out in 1832, 1867-8, 1926-8,1965-73 and 1976-91. No Romanesque work is known to suvive within the existing fabric of the church.
Cathedral church
What remains of Old St Paul's, including the fragments of Inigo Jones's Corinthian W portico, is a collection of stones in the S triforium stone store of Wren's cathedral. Few are Romanesque, and those that are belong to the Historic Collection, which is to say that they were discovered on the site at some time, probably in the 19th or early 20th century, and neither the date nor the location of the find was noted. This suggests, circumstantially, that they came from Old St Paul's cathedral, but other possibilities should not be ignored, especially in view of the destructive consequences of the Great Fire on all the medieval churches in the City of London.
Cathedral church
The four-bay aisled nave, crossing, and parts of the transept and chancel survive from the original 12thc. building. These are surrounded by later medieval work in the chancel, transepts and chapels flanking the nave, with post-medieval additions to the N and S of the chancel. The nave has square piers with pointed arches, surmounted by a round-headed clerestory with a wall passage; there are five clerestory windows in N and S walls, set over the piers, and the centre of the arches in the three E bays. There is a tower over the W bay, with a similar window and wall passage; the W wall has three narrow pointed lancets, the centre lancet taller than the side lancets, with a wall passage at the base. The W tower arch has been inserted inside the original piers of the W bay. Sculpture is found on the W doorway (Drastically restored in 1895, when only the label and innermost order remained), on the capitals of the nave arcades and on corbels in the aisles.
Cathedral church
A cruciform church with long nave and chancel and 13thc. transepts and S crossing arch are 13thc. The basement mouldings and engaged shaft on the exterior of the S wall of the chancel are also 13thc. A number of fragments from the earlier church are reset inside the W wall of the present church.
Cathedral church
A 13thc. cathedral built on the site of an earlier church which was burned in 1085 and in 1114. It contains a font and some loose sculpture from the Romanesque church, and some Romanesque stones reused in the walls of the 13thc. church. A round tower is located to the south of the cathedral.
Cathedral church
A large aisleless cruciform early gothic church with a central tower over the crossing. The transept is almost central, with the choir slightly longer than the nave. Total length approx. 55 m., w. across transept approx. 39 m. (Nave 18.59m x9.14m; chancel 19.8m x 9.14m; N transept 7.21m x 5.86m; S transept 9.57m x 6.88m - Westropp). The choir has a large three-light E window, and there is a double window in the E wall of the S transept. Tall, narrow, pointed windows in the chancel, the N wall of the N transept, the S and W walls of the S transept and in the nave, with a single recessed exterior order (chamfered in the S transept and nave). The choir and transept contain a series of richly carved transitional or early gothic corbels. The W facade has clasping buttresses with angle rolls. Romanesque sculpture is also found on a number of features: capitals in the aumbries flanking the E window; a richly decorated doorway in the S wall of the nave; two reused grave slabs under the doorway; a font in the nave; a number of reused Romanesque stones incorporated into the fabric of the church, and some loose stones stored in the vestry. There is also a stone cross from Kilfenora in the nave.
Cathedral church
Kilmore Cathedral is a 19thc. Gothic building which contains a Romanesque doorway built into the N wall of the vestry (located in the angle of the N transept and chancel).
The Kilmore doorway is said to have come from the church on Trinity Island in Lough Oughter, three miles away, though the evidence for this is not conclusive. Trinity Island was the site of the old monastery of Dair-inis. The original site of the see of Breifne, which was transferred to Kilmore c.1250. A new cathedral was constructed at Kilmore during the 17thc. and this was apparently when the Romanesque doorway was moved from Trinity Island. The existing Gothic building at Kilmore dates from about 1860, so the portal has been reconstructed twice. There are plenty of signs of misunderstandings.
Cathedral church
A nave and chancel church with a Romanesque doorway and blind arcade on the W wall. Some Romanesque masonry is found under two windows on the N wall. Two small square niches in the NE corner may be Romanesque. The present layout of the church dates from the 13thc. there is a triple lancet window in the E wall and nine slender windows in the S wall. The remains of a triple sedilia are found on the S wall of the chancel.