The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Deconsecrated chapel, formerly Free Chapel
Deconsecrated chapel, formerly Free Chapel
Brimpton is a village in the south of the county, five miles E of Newbury and only a mile from the Hampshire border. The village lies between the rivers Kennet and Enborne, just south of the line of the Roman road from Newbury to Calleva (Silchester). It is clustered around a minor crossroads, with the parish church (St Peter's) in the centre and Brimpton Manor farm and St Leonard's chapel 500 metres to the north. The chapel of St Leonard stands immediately to the E of Brimpton Manor farmhouse, and is a simple rectangular flint building with ashlar quoins and a modern red-tiled roof. The N doorway indicates an origin in the 12thc, but there are additions of the 13thc (N window) and 14thc (E window). The only Romanesque sculpture is on the N doorway.