The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Parish church, formerly chapel
Parish church, formerly chapel
Little Stretton is a small village in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, 6 miles SE of Leicester. The church stands to the N of the road through the village, and is a small ironstone building with a low nave and chancel in one, a S porch and a W tower. The S doorway and a plain blocked N doorway are 12thc. The Purbeck font is 13thc.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Brassington is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, 14 miles NW of Derby and 6 miles SW of Matlock. It is built largely from the local limestone is built on the S side of a steep valley with the church at its highest point, on the northern edge. This essentially 12thc church consists of a nave with a 12thc S arcade, a 13thc S porch, a W tower, 12thc except for its battlement, a N aisle added in 1879-81 by F. J. Robinson, and a chancel with a 12thc S aisle. There must have been a corbel table originally, and corbels have been reset on the W tower and elsewhere around the building. Other Romanesque features include the font and a reset chevron voussoir in the S porch.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Illston on the Hill is a small village in the Harborough district of SE Leicestershire, 7 miles N of Market Harborough. Illston is unusually a dead-end village, and the church is in the centre. St Michael's consists of a W tower, a clerestoreyed nave with S aisle and S porch, and a chancel. The fabric is largely of the late-13thc or later. It is built of coursed rubble stone and was restored by H. Goddard and Son in 1866-67. Only the font is Romanesque, and must be from an earlier building.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Twyford is a village in the South Derbyshire district, on the River Trent on the southern otskirts of Derby. The church is on a lane runnning alongside the river to the S of the village centre. It consists of a nave, chancel and a small tower and spire at the west end. The church is predominantly of the 14thc, although there is a Norman chancel arch and the lower stage of the tower has lancet windows dating from the early-13th century. The nave is of faced with brick, - it resembles the style of work at Trusley church, Derbyshire. The only Romanesque feature is the chancel arch.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Kniveton is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of the county, 3 miles NE of Ashbourne. The church is in the village centre and has an aisleless nave with a W gallery and a S porch, a W tower with a spire and a chancel with a N vestry. The nave and S doorway are 12thc work. The W tower is late 13thc with battlements and tower added in the 15th-16thc. Both nave and chancel were rebuilt with new windows in 1663. Construction is of coursed gritstone rubble with ashlar dressings.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Buncton is a small village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, 11 miles S of Horsham. All Saints is a small church built of flint and rubble in a rural location, comprising a single nave with opposing N and S doorways and a short, square-ended chancel. Until 2007 it was a chapel-of-ease to St Mary’s, Wiston, but in that year the status of the two churches was reversed. Romanesque sculpture is found on a number of reset fragments and on the chancel arch.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Very little remains of the fabric of the 12thc church, which comprised chancel, nave, possibly N and S transepts and a W tower. The tower-arch into the nave has plain responds from late in that century with chamfered imposts now supporting a 13thc pointed arch, and there are fragments from the 12thc chancel arch, already altered in the 14thc, the whole of which has been re-assembled at the E end of the N aisle. The present building consists of a chancel of c.1768 rebuilt in 15thc style in 1864 when an organ-loft was appended to its N side, a nave, a 15thc N transept rebuilt as an aisle, a similar earlier S transept and S porch both created 1852-3 in 15thc style and late 12thc W tower rebuilt and stair-turret attached in the 15thc and again in 1852-3 when the bell chamber and buttresses were added.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Mellor stands in the High Peak on the border with Derbyshire. Indeed it was in Derbyshire until 1936 when it was reassigned, along with neighbouring Ludworth, to Cheshire. Recent excavations have disclosed an Iron Age hill fort alongside the church. St Thomas's was formerly a chapel of ease to Glossop in Derbyshire, and remains in the Glossop Deanery of the Diocese of Derby. The church has a 15thc. W tower, but whatever was to the east of this was replaced from 1815 to 1830 with a simple aisleless nave and chancel of brick. Something similar took place at Church Lawton. The only Romanesque feature is the font, one of the most interesting in the county.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Originally a chapel of ease, this is now a small parish church, consisting of nave and chancel with a 13thc. N aisle. It was restored in 1872 by Charles Kirk Jr.; the S porch was added at this time. The Romanesque features are the S doorway and the font.
Parish church, formerly chapel
A spectacular and important timber church with a stone W tower, said to be of 1582 (see Pevsner) but probably earlier. The aisled nave (13th-14thc.) is of four bays, and the slightly lower chancel of two, all timber work with box pews. The nave aisles continue alongside the chancel, the N aisle dating from 1624 and the S from c.1610. They now house an organ loft and vestry to the N and the Shakerley Chapel to the S. The three vessels have separate roofs, built by Salvin in his restoration of 1852, but originally the nave and its aisles shared a single roof. The church was founded in 1269, hence none of the fabric is 12thc. What is at issue is the font, said to have been brought from Norton Priory in 1322.