The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
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Cranwell is a village in the North Kesteven district of the county, 3 mile NW of Sleaford and 11 miles NE of Grantham. The church stands on the main road through the village and is a small, odd-looking church having a low nave with a flat roof , a N aisle and a S porch, and a tall chancel with a pitched roof. There is no tower but a 17thc bellcote topped by an obelisk finial on the W gable. There is evidence of an 11thc nave to which a 3-bay N arcade was added, and this was later extended to the W by one bay in the 13thc. The chancel arch is 13thc, but the chancel itself is Perpendicular. The N aisle wall was rebuilt in 1812 and whole church was largely rebuilt in a 1903-4 restoration by C. H. Fowler.
Construction is of coarse limestone rubble and ashlar, with ashlar dressings.
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Edburton is a tiny village sited at the foot of the South Downs escarpment in the Hosham district of West Sussex. The church has a single nave with a S porch and a W tower, and a chancel with a N chapel.
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Tolland is situated 9 mi NW of Taunton, Somerset, between the Brendon Hills and Quantock Hills. The church of St John the Baptist is 13thc and was remodelled in 1871. It is built of red sandstone rubble masonry with Ham stone facings, and consists of a W tower, nave with N aisle and vestry, chancel and S porch. The font is Romanesque.
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Coningsby is a small town in the East Lindsey district of the county, 10 miles NW of Boston and 17 miles SE of Lincoln. The church stands on the High Street, and has a W tower, an aisled nave with a S porch, and a polygonal apse rebuilt in 1870. The tower is 14thc with a 15thc embattled parapet; the nave arcades are 13thc work and none of the fabric appears earlier than this. Romanesque sculpture is found on an inverted capital now used as a step for the 14thc font.
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Walesby is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, in the West Lindsey district. It is 2½ miles NE of Market Rasen, and 18 miles NE of Lincoln. The church is serenely set atop the wolds, in open countryside a quarter of a mile east of the village centre. Access is by mens of a track from the village, and by 1930 the church had fallen into disrepar. A new parish church, dedicated to St Mary, was built in 1914, but All Saints was restored and is now maintained by the Friends of the Old Church, a trust founded in 1980. It is popular among walkers, and is known as the Ramblers' Church. It has a 13thc. W tower and chancel; the N arcade is 12thc, the side aisles of the nave are of c.1300 and the clerestory is Perpendicular. It was restored in 1931.
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Scotter is a large village in the West Linsey district of the county, 19 miles N of Lincoln and 25 miles W of the coast at Grimsby. The church is to the E of the village centre and consists of a Perpendicular W tower, a nave with a late 13thc. four-bay N aisle, 15thc. clerestory, and S porch built in 1820. There was a major restoration between 1947-50. The S doorway into the nave is the only Romanesque feature.
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The tiny manorial hamlet of Tellisford, 6 mi NE of Frome, occupies land on the left bank of the river Frome which forms the boundary with Wiltshire as well as the parish boundary. The church of All Saints is close to the crossing of the road running roughly N-S across a plateau which runs down to the river; the first element of the place-name is related to an old form of ‘table’. The church, which is built of Doulting stone, consists of a W tower, nave with S porch and chancel. The S doorway is stylistically Romanesque in its essential form, but its date is contested (see Comments).
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Kingerby is a village in the West Lindsey district, 5 miles NW of Market Rasen. In this quiet, remote hamlet, the church solemnly stands hidden by its sylvan surroundings. It is constructed of squared and coursed ironstone rubble, and is primarily of the 13thc. and consists of a W tower, nave with clerestory, S aisle, S porch and chancel. The former N aisle has been demolished but the 13thc arcade is still visible. The W tower may be 11thc on the evidnce of a small circular window, now inside the church. The nave roof was replaced in 17thc., and the chancel roof in the 19thc. The church was declared redundant in 1980 and is now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
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Great Moulton is a vilage in Norfolk, located about 10 miles SSW of Norwich. The church of St Michael was rebuilt in 1887 but the Romanesque tower arch and imposts survive, as does the coursed flint masonry of the chancel and nave, bearing traces of round-headed windows. The fragment of a decorated colonnette is the only Romanesque sculpture observed at the site. It may have come from a window, as with the similar example in situ at St Mary Magdalene, just outside the centre of Cambridge.
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The parish of Moorlinch, which is on the southern slopes of the Polden ridge, lies 6 miles E of Bridgwater. Most of the land lies on Keuper marl, with irregular areas of clay and limestone on the higher slopes, and alluvium between the marl and the peat of Sedgemoor. The church of St Mary, which is in a prominent position and dates from the 13thc., consists of a nave with S porch, chancel and W tower. The outer doorway contains restored Romanesque work. The tub font is also perhaps Romanesque work.