The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Parish church, formerly chapel
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.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Little Ness is a small village, 7 miles NW of Shrewsbury. The church, at the N end of the village centre, is a single-aisled building extensively restored in the 19thc, it retains some 12thc masonry, including a round-headed window on the interior of the N wall. The S doorway is 12thc, and a large head sculpture has been set above it. A 12thc font stands at the W end of the nave.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Little Linford is a village on the N edge of Milton Keynes in the far N of the county. It stands at a junction of minor roads on the N bank of the River Great Ouse. The church is on the edge of the grounds of Linford Hall, a late-17thc house altered in the 18thc, and consists of an aisled nave with a double bell-cote over the W gable and an aisleless chancel. The chancel is 13thc in origin but rebuilt using old materials, notably the E and S windows. The chancel arch is modern but includes re-used imposts, described below. The N arcade is 13thc, of 2 bays and the S arcade is early 14thc, of 3 bays. Reset in the S aisle wall is the doorway described below, of c.1200 or later. There is also the plainest of fonts, of uncertain date, also described here.
Parish church, formerly chapel
This small church, approached through a farmyard in a tiny hamlet, has a single nave with opposing doorways (now corresponding to a porch on the S and a vestry on the N, both 19thc. additions), and a apsidal E end. The nave and apse are of the same height and are roofed together, with no structural demarcation of space. The Romanesque style apse windows are modern. There is no electricity.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Norton Mandeville is a village in the Epping Foresat district of Essex, 8 miles W of Chelmsford on the N side of the A 414 road to Harlow. The parish is linked to High Ongar, a mile to the SW, and the church may once have been a chapel-of ease. The village consists of little more than the hall, the church and a farm overlooking farmland.
All Saints' church is of coursed flint with stone dressings and consists of a chancel and a nave with a S porch and a timber bell cote with a tiled pyramid roof on the W gable. The church is assumed to be 12thc in origin, although no identifiable fabric of that period remains in-situ. Such diagnostic medieval features as remain are 14thc in date, and an extensive restoration in 1903 involved the replacement of most of the roof timbers and the retiling of the roofs, as well as the replastering of the walls. Romanesque features recorded here are three loose stones; a chevron voussoir, a billet voussoir and part of the shaft of a pillar piscina, and the font.
Parish church, formerly chapel
The 12thc. nave has received several additions, namely a 13thc. S aisle,
a 15thc. S porch and a 19thc. vestry. The nave is not divided from the 13thc.chancel by an arch. There are substantial 19thc. restorations.
The font is the only 12thc. carved feature.
Parish church, formerly chapel
Upton is a small village in the Soke of Peterborough, 5 miles W of the centre of Peterborough and 1½ miles NW of Castor. The village clusters around lanes on the N side of the A47, with the church at its E end, now isolated in a field used for grazing. The manor house, now part of Manor Farm, stands to the SE of the church. St John's is 12thc in origin and consists of a chancel with a N vestry, nave and N aisle. The building was rebuilt in the 17thc, and the chancel rebuilt in 1842. From the W the facade is triple gabled, aptly described as 'intensely domestic' by Pevsner, the S gable representing the nave, the N the separately-roofed aisle and the centre a bell-cote with louvred openings either side of a buttress. Construction is of ashlar and dressed stone with Collyweston stone and slate roofs. Inside, the chancel arch jambs and N arcade piers and capitals are 12thc but of different phases, and in both the cases the arches are later, presumably 17thc. The most striking feature is the N aisle which has its floor raised by 4 steps and elaborate balustrades flanking the staircase and between the arcade piers, converting it into a chapel for the spectacular Barnack stone and terracotta tomb of Sir William Dove (d.1633) and his 2 wives,