The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Church (ruin)
Church (ruin)
A small nave (15.00 m x 5.00 m) and chancel (7.00 m x 3.90 m) church built of limestone and Greywacke rubble with dressed stone jambs. Apart from the W gable which survives close to its original height, the walls survive only at a low level.
Church (ruin)
A small rectangular oratory 7.8 m x 5.75 m in a ruinous condition with the maximum height of the walls rising to 1.85m. The proportionately thick walls (roughly 0.9 m) rest on a plinth, which projects 0.12 m externally and 0.11 m internally. The walls are faced on both vertical surfaces with coursed, dressed slabs of varying dimensions. The building originally had a steep pitched stone roof, with jointed stone shingles.
Church (ruin)
An early Christian site with the remains of a single-cell medieval parish church with a barrel-vaulted W end. The W gable and western part of the S wall survive to full height, while N and E walls are reduced to the footings. The surviving parts of the church appear wholly later medieval in date, but incorporate material from an earlier 12thc structure. The base and head of a ringed cross are found on the site.
A number of pieces of carved Romanesque stone are scattered around the site and incorporated into the fabric of the 15thc elements of the church.
Church (ruin)
A ruined church consisting of a long, narrow nave (7.2 m x 18 m). The N wall and the E gable are intact. The W wall remains to c.2-3 m, the S wall to c.0.5 m. Large stones surviving the S wall suggest the remains of a pre-Romanesque church. There is a plain round-headed E window and some reused fragments of Romanesque sculpture in the W doorway, and built into the graveyard wall, along with some loose fragments. One further block of chevron from this site is now located in the grounds of Carrig Parish Church at Ballycommon(Power, 1998).
Church (ruin)
A small rectangular church with antae at the W end. The W wall survives to a height of 2.15 m above current ground level, the S wall remains at close to its original height. All other walls are destroyed to foundation level. The church is situated within surrounding earthworks, the ground level has risen greatly around it due to modern burials.
Church (ruin)
A roofless nave and chancel church, with walls and gables intact. The upper parts of the N and S walls were probably restored in the 16thc. The elaborately carved W portal was surmounted by a tangent gable. The N wall of the nave has a round-headed window in the centre and a square window of rougher masonry towards the E end. The S wall has two round-headed windows. The chancel arch leads into a small rectangular chancel, originally vaulted and two-storied, with a plain square opening in the gable above the chancel arch. In the N wall of the chancel is a square opening with the sill c. 0.3m from the ground (a later door opening?). Two round-headed windows in the E gable lit the upper and lower storeys of the chancel. Sandstone is used for quoins, windows and door openings, otherwise the building is of uncoursed limestone. The dimensions of the nave are 12.03m x 7.23m, those of the chancel are 3.65 m x 2.6 m. The loose sculpture and some moulded fragments that were recorded in 1994 were no longer on the site in 2002.
Church (ruin)
A two-cell church. The nave is pre-Romanesque, its walls employing some very massive and well-dressed blocks of granite; the W door has inclined jambs with a cross carved on the soffit of the lintel; a false architrave is incised around the door. The chancel is a late 12thc addition. It is built of roughly coursed rubble, the masonry much inferior to that of the nave. The chancel arch has plain jambs, with chamfered plinths. The only sculpture is to be found on the exterior of the E window.
Church (ruin)
A few fragments from the levelled church are in the graveyard, one of which bears Romanesque sculpture.