The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Chapel, former
Chapel, former
Lilstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stringston. It is 12 miles (19 km) NW of Bridgwater. The chapel of St Andrew, with only two rows of pews, features a 14thc. chancel arch. This arch is the only remaining portion of the earlier church which was demolished in 1881 when the present building was erected. The church was declared redundant in 1980, and the Norman font removed to Stogursey church in 1981. The entry for Stogursey includes a description of the font.
Chapel, former
Eyre chapel is a rectangular building with low gables on the short E and W sides. There are 2 S doorways; that towards the W end has a Tudor arch, and another near the centre of the wall has a 12thc tympanum. There are 2-light square-headed Perpendicular windows on the S, E and W walls. Flanking the E and W pediments are plain corner pinnacles and at the top of the W gable is a crocketed pinnacle. Construction is of roughly coursed rubble with large quoins at the angles. The chapel was restored in 1887 and again in 1987, and has been under the care of the Friends of the Eyre Chapel since 1992. It is now used as a village hall.
Chapel, former
Spital is on the southern edge of the town, and the northern edge of Windsor Great Park. The chapel stands on St Leonard’s Road and was built in yellow brick in 1874. It consists of a nave with a W gallery, a Lady Chapel, added as a S aisle, and a S porch at the W end of the S aisle. In its present use as a Music Centre, the weekly service is held in the Lady Chapel, while the main altar has been removed and replaced by a grand piano. The only Romanesque sculpture here is the 12thc font.
Chapel, former
The only roofed parts of the church surviving are a rectangular chancel and a mausoleum built on the S side of the chancel. Both the W and E sides of the chancel arch are built with plain, uncarved voussoirs, with the central area of the arch blocked up. There are simple imposts but no capitals. On the N wall of the chancel is a Norman window. There are also a few later windows in the chancel. The mausoleum built off the S side of the chancel appears to have been first built as a chapel in 1587 and was rebuilt in 1671. In 1897-9, a new church was built at a site in Leesrigg (the village now named Fletchertown), the old church only used occasionally. The S chapel became the mausoleum for the Moore family. In 1935, the nave, S aisle and porch were demolished, leaving the nave filled with rubble and only lower sections of its outer walls. The whole of the nave area is overgrown, and the interior of the chancel and mausoleum are in a poor state
Chapel, former
Remains of 12thc. chapel, of rubble construction, comprising chancel and nave, standing in a garden next to a farmhouse. The gabled end walls stand to full height; half of the N nave wall has been destroyed. There is a tall plain round-headed window with a continuous roll surround in the N wall of the nave, a similar but shorter window set into a modern brick farm outhouse, and a taller plain round-headed light in the S nave wall. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S and N doorways, the former blocked, on reset fragments in the N nave wall outside, in the S nave wall inside and in a farm outbuilding, and on loose fragments stored in a fireplace in the W wall of the nave.
Chapel, former
A chapel in the parish of Elston, now disused and in the care of the Churches
Conservation Trust. The building consists of a nave and slightly lower chancel. The chapel is still complete with pine box pews, altar
table and Jacobean pulpit. There is a portion of 11th or 12thc. masonry in the S
wall. The only Romanesque feature is the S doorway.
Chapel, former
This report is written entirely from secondary sources as it has not proved possible to gain access to the site despite repeated attempts. The site is a disused chapel, formerly a dairy and garden feature, in the grounds of Fawley Court, some 20 metres NW of the main house. The chapel is of knapped flint and dates to the late-18thc or early-19thc. Reset under a porch in the projecting E front is a 12thc doorway that came from Hart Street, Henley.
Chapel, former
This lost site is included on account of the carved and moulded stones behind the Abbey Hotel, close to its former location. Yates (1843) published an engraving of the chapel, reproduced here, and as it had been demolished c.1801, this must have been old when Yates published it. What it shows is a simple structure with little in the way of elaborate doorways or windows.