The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Parish church, former
Parish church, former
St Boniface Old Church is situated in The Undercliff area of the island, a short distance inland from the S coast. The church consists of a nave, chancel and a S porch leading to a Romanesque doorway. The chancel has N and S lancet windows. The chancel arch was formerly a simple round headed arch. The neo-Norman appearance of the chancel arch is due to restoration work carried out in the early 20thc by Percy Stone (Lloyd and Pevsner 2006, 86-7).
Parish church, former
Holme church was never very rich, and 'it is said that a vicarage was never ordained there' (Barker, 2). In 1862, all except the chancel was demolished. The chancel arch was blocked and a door inserted there. Colour photographs of this reduced building and the loose capital, taken probably some time in the 1980s, have been supplied to the Corpus by Mr. Harold Hall and Mr. Geoffery Creaser, residents.
'The derelict stone chancel, the only surviving part of St Peter's church, was demolished in 1989. The foundations remain in the overgrown churchyard' (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 473).
Five pieces of twelfth-century sculpture from Holme were reset in Etton church.
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Old St Bridget's Church sits about half a mile SW of the centre. Although the church is now isolated from the present inhabited part of Beckemet, a settlement closer to St Bridget's once existed, but has not survived. The church of St Bridget consists of a chancel, nave and W bellcote. During repairs on the church, archaeological investigations were undertaken in 2014. At the top of the S wall, parts of a medieval baptismal font were found re-used as infill. Many of the carved stones were recovered, but other parts remain inside the wall. Two cross shafts in the churchyard have proposed dates ranging from the 9thc to 11thc, suggesting that this was a religious site before the arrival of the Normans. A larger and more modern church was subsequently built on a new site in Calder Bridge in 1840-42. Old St Bridget's Church is now used only occasionally.
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The baptismal font from Aldbar Chapel was moved to Aberlemno sometime after 1887 (see Aberlemno Church for a description and images). The estate of Aldbar (sometimes spelt Auldbar) had been owned by the Cramond family from at least the 13thc, but in the later 16thc it was sold to John Lyon. It subsequently passed through the hands of the Sinclair and Young families, until bought by William Chalmers in 1753. Aldbar Castle was finally destroyed by fire in 1964. In the early 17thc, the parish of Aldbar was joined with Aberlemno, and in 1856 it was noted that the 'old Church' at Aldbar had become ruinous and had been replaced by Mr. Chalmers, under the charge of a Mr. Billings.
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Woodchester is about a mile and a half south-west of Stroud, on the W side of the Nailsworth valley. The medieval church was built on the site of a Roman villa. The remains of that church and its surrounding graveyard are about a quarter of a mile N of the present church (also St Mary’s), which was newly-built (using a few old stones) in 1863--4. The old churchyard was closed in 1884; the ruin and the surviving gravestones are included in an area scheduled as an ancient monument known as 'Woodchester Roman Villa' (Gloucestershire County Monument 107). The ruin is maintained by the Church of England.
The ruin comprises part of the N wall of the nave including a N doorway, and standing separately, but in original relative position, the chancel arch and part of the E wall of the nave.
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The ruinous and disused church of St Mary in Arden is on the E side of Market Harborough, administrative centre of the Harborough district that forms the SE of the county. The present building was built in 1693-94 by Henry Dormer to replace a medieval church destroyed when its spire fell around 1660, and is a plain rectangular box with low gables at E and W. The medieval S doorway and porch were reused by Dormer; the porch Perpendicular and the doorway 12thc.
Dormer's church was in a bad state by the late-18thc; the floor unpaved and glass missing from the windows. In 1925 it was repaired and refitted, but after World War 2 the fittings were removed and the lead from the roof was sold. By 1958 it was on its way to becoming a more or less picturesque ruin.
Parish church, former
Holy Trinity was the historic parish church of Buckfastleigh. It dates from the 13thc and later, with the exception of an early font. In 1992, the church suffered an extensive fire. The font was relocated to the modern church of St Luke's, where it now can be found. (See report for St Luke, Buckfastleigh: St Luke, Buckfastleigh, Devon - CRSBI)
Parish church, former
Heath (formerly Lowne, Lowne in Heath or Lunt) is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of the county, 5 miles SE of Chesterfield. The former church of Heath, recorded here, was on the E side of the village, and was replaced by was replaced by the present church of All Saints, half a mile to the W, in 1852-53. In Pevsner (1953) the remains of the old church are described as being a quarter mile to the east of its Victorian successor, and while it was true that they could be reached by walking down Church Lane in 1953, that is no longer the case, since the construction of the M1 in 1965-67 and the subsequent opening of the A617 dual carriageway linking it to Chesterfield, the old church has been effectively cut off from the village. Access is possible from the A617 from Chesterfield, at a dead end junction a few yards before the Heath roundabout. Unfortunately Pevsner's original directions to the church have been retained in later editions.
The original church consisted of nave, chancel, N aisle W tower and S porch (see Cox, I, 255). What stands today in the old churchyard is the south porch still in-situ, and the remains of a mortuary chapel that was constructed from masonry from the demolished church. This is approximately twice the size of the porch, forming a rectangle with its long side extending northwards. The porch stands to the level of the entrance arch imposts, and in the position of the S doorway are jambs constructed from large chevron blocks, described below.