The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Church
A long, rectangular church separated into nave and chancel by a broken cross-wall, extant only at ground level on the S side. This marks the foundations of the E wall of an earlier church.
Church
Skelmanthorpe is a large village 7 miles SE of Huddersfield in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire. The present church stands on the western edge of the village and was built by Bodley and Garner in 1894-95. It has a chancel with a S vestry, and a 5-bay nave with aisles. The S aisle extends the entire length of the nave but the N aisle only reaches the 4th bay; the W bay having a gabled porch into the nave. There is no tower but a bell-cote over the E gable of the nave. The only Romanesque fitting is a font brought here in 1904, and said to have been come, like the Cawthorne font, from Cannon Hall (Collingwood, 239). It was thought to have originated in High Hoyland church and to have served for some time as a cattle trough before it was installed here (Coatsworth, 277).
Church
The church is rectangular in plan, 23.5 m x 8 m (Madden), with an internal division separating E and W parts. The W part is earlier, with a lower pitched roof and built of large uncoursed masonry blocks in the lower walls with smaller stones above. There are antae at the W end and a lintelled W door with inclined jambs. The E end is 12thc., of coursed ashlar, with angle shafts flanking the E facade, a chamfered plinth on the N side and a flat-topped plinth on E and S sides. Romanesque sculpture is found on the capitals of the angle shafts at the E end, four windows and a niche in the E section of the church, heads set in the interior S chancel wall and in the exterior E wall, and on a number of loose fragments. There is a plain font of uncertain date.
Church
Scawton is a small but beautifully preserved church which consists of nave and chancel. In spite of an extensive restoration carried out in 1892 by Hodgson Fowler, much of the original twelfth century fabric of the building has been retained. This includes a decorated doorway in the south wall of the nave, an unusual triple arch separating the nave from the chancel, and four windows (one in the south wall of the nave, and three in the chancel).