The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Parish church, former
Parish church, former
This is a simple aisleless church with a tower, nave and chancel. The earliest part is S door and sections of nave wall. There is a modern porch with neo-Romanesque decoration.
Parish church, former
West Torrington is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of the county, 5 miles S of Market Rasen and 11 miles NE of Lincoln. The church, in the centre of the hamlet, was closed for worship in 2011 and put on the market but failed to sell. In 2020 it was put up for sale again, and in that year the villagers formed a group to bid for it themselves as a community and heritage hub. It was built in 1860-61 by R. J. Withers who reused 14thc masonry, thought to be from an earlier church on the same site. It consists of a nave with a bellcote and a S porch and a chancel with a N vestry, and is built of rubble with ashlar dressings. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church, former
West Dowlish was a small settlement and parish in S Somerset, some 1.5 miles S of Ilminster. The church of St John the Baptist was demolished before 1575 and the rectory was annexed to Dowlish Wake in 1857.
The Romanesque font is the sole surviving feature from the church and is now situated nearby in St Andrew, Dowlish Wake. Please see the CRSBI entry for this site: www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1166
Parish church, former
Wyham cum Cadeby is a depopulated parish in the East Lindsey district of the county, 6 miles N of Louth and 10 miles E of Market Rasen. The nearest village is Ludborough, a mile to the E, where the remaining population is included. All Saints is a small church consisting of nave, chancel, and brick S porch rebuilt in 1886 by James Fowler. Construction is of chalk rubble with ironstone blocks and redbrick. Some herringbone masonry in the chancel may be original medieval work. The church was made redundant in 1982 and sold. There is one reset Romanesque voussoir with chevron in the W wall of the nave.
Parish church, former
Snarford is a village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 9 miles NE of Lincoln and 6 miles SW of Market Rasen on the A46 that links these two places. The church is to the N of the village, on the site of the Deserted Medieval Village along with Hall Farm (see Lincs HER). It is a limestone building consisting of a nave, a chancel with a north chapel, and a west tower. The lower part of the W tower is 12thc. The remainder of the church is 14thc and 15thc. It was restored in the 19thc and was declared redundant in 1995. It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Inside the tower are four round-headed or segmental arches, one on each wall, at a level just above the later pointed arch leading into the nave. Romanesque sculpture is found on the E wall arch, which has been reset; the other arches are plain.
Parish church, former
Wood Enderby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 4 miles S of Horncastlle. It consists of a few houses clustered around a crossroads of narrow lanes in an arable farming landscape. The church is reached by a lane to the N of the village centre, and was made redundant in 1976. It is now closed and used as a store. The church was rebuilt in 1860 by George Hackford, and consists of a nave and chancel of greenstone and a W tower with a broach spire. Some masonry survives from the previous church on the site, but the only Romanesque sculprure is the bowl of a pillar piscina, resey in the chancel.
Parish church, former
Burwell is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 24 miles E of Lincoln and 5 miles S of Louth. St. Michael’s was made redundant in 1981 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It underwent a major restoration in the late 1990s. It consists of a W tower, nave and chancel, all built or rebuilt in the late 15thc and early 16thc. On the exterior of the S nave wall the blocked arches of a former arcade can be seen. The Romanesque chancel arch remains.
Parish church, former
Friern Barnet was once a small, rural parish 7 miles N of London. It's original name of Little Barnet distinguished it from the larger part of Barnet which was in Hertfordshire. The name of Freren Barnet did not appear before 1294 and reflected the lordship of the Brotherhood of Knights Hospitaller.
The former parish church of St James stands on the main N-S road through the village, now surrounded by 20thc housing but retaining a large wooded churchyard. It consists of a chancel with a N vestry, nave with S aisle and porch and a tower with a shingled spire at the SW. This arrangement is the result of a major restoration and enlargement in by W. G and E. Habershon in 1853, which increased the number of pews from 200 to 500. The original Norman church was a simple one consisting of nave and chancel with a S porch and a wooden W tower. The Habershons kept the 12thc S doorway but it is heavily restored. The 1853 tower collapsed in 1930 and was rebuilt on the same plan. In 1977 an octagonal parish room was added on the N side of the nave, accessed from the church via the N nave doorway. The restored and reset S doorway is the only Romanesque feature.
Parish church, former
St Mary's, in the centre of Shrewsbury, was founded as a collegiate church, became a parish church after 1548 and was declared redundant in 1987. It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The architectural history of the building is highly complex and much remains unsolved. It consists of an aisled nave with a W tower and a S porch, a crossing with a N transept containing the St Nicholas Chapel, and a S transept. The chancel has a S chapel (the Trinity Chapel) and a N vestry. Of this the lower parts of the W tower, the transepts and parts of the lateral walls at the W end of the chancel are 12thc work. The S wall of the S transept was remodelled in the 19thc. The pointed W tower arch is late 12thc, decorated with string course and sculpted capitals. The S nave arcade dates to c. 1200 or a little later, while the N nave arcade is later still. N and S transept doorways decorated with sculpture, both late 12thc. There is a plain W doorway, somewhat earlier than S and N transept doorways. The S porch is of c.1200 and decorated with sculpture both on exterior and interior, leading to S doorway also decorated with sculpture. The church is constructed of local red sandstone.
Parish church, former
St Pinnock is a hamlet in SE Cornwall, 8 miles E of Bodmin and 3 miles W of Liskeard. The church is in the village centre and is built of rubble stone with granite dressings. It consists of a W tower, a nave with a N aisle and a S porch. The tower is late-14thc., and the nave 15thc. In the late 15thc. a N transept was demolished and the N aisle added The porch was built in the 16thc. The church was in a neglected condition by the mid-19thc, and was extensively restored by Hine and Odgers between 1876 and 1882. The only possibly Romanesque feature is the font.