The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Private house, formerly parish church
Private house, formerly parish church
There is and was no place called Newington Bagpath: Newington and Bagpath are two small settlements in the upper part of valleys in the Cotswolds escarpment, about 3 miles ENE of Wotton-under-Edge; the medieval church was apparently built to serve both. It has chancel, a nave and a W tower, the chancel being entirely rebuilt by Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1858, while the nave and tower are medieval.
The church was closed in the 1970s, and cleared of its contents, chiefly Teulon-related items (see Comments for description of the church before closure). The church was deconsecrated and sold after a protracted process in 1990. Nothing has been done to the building since it was sold (information from Natalie Fenner at the Gloucester Diocesan Office, August 2019).
There was possibly a N doorway and a font of our period: the doorway is inaccessible behind undergrowth, and the font is reported to be wrapped in a tarpaulin and outside the N transept of the church at Kingscote (information from Newington Bagpath churchwarden September 2019).
Private house, formerly parish church
Braiseworth is in rolling arable farmland in N central Suffolk, 1½ miles S of Eye. It lies to the E of the Roman road from Ipswich to Diss, now the A140, but there is now no village centre, only the old and new churches (both now redundant), an orchard, Priory farm and a few widely dispersed houses on the lanes round about. Taking Priory farm as the centre, the land falls to the E to the valley of the river Dove, a stream that flows NE to join the river Waveney near Hoxne on the Norfolk border.
New St Mary's was built in 1857 by E. B. Lamb. The medieval church, half a mile to the SE, was partly demolished at the same time (see Braiseworth, Old St Mary), and Lamb used its 12thc. nave doorways for the S doorway and the porch entrance of his new building. New St Mary's is a flint building with ashlar dressings in a neo-Romanesque style, consisting of a nave with a bell-cote on the W gable and a S porch, and a chancel with an apsidal E end. It is now a private house and is not accessible to visitors. The author and the CRSBI would like to express their gratitude to the owners for generously allowing access to record the 12thc. sculpture.
Private house, formerly parish church
The church was built in 1892-3, but the foundations of the original church, except for the W part of the old nave, remain to its E. The 12thc. font and sculptural fragments were moved to Alfrick church in 1974, when the church was sold and converted into a private house.
Private house, formerly parish church
Willersley is a village in the W of Herefordshire, 13 miles W of Hereford and 4 miles from the Welsh border. The village is on the N side of the Wye valley, and consists of a few houses built along the main A438 road that links Hereford and Brecon. Magdalene House, formerly the church of St Mary Magdalene, consisted originally of a nave and chancel in one constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, with a timber S porch, and a W bell turret. The church was built in the later 12thc, modified in the 14thc, restored in 1877 and converted into a dwelling in 1981, when the W turret was removed. A description of the house as a church in 1934 is to be found in RCHME. The S doorway is the only Romanesque feature.
Private house, formerly parish church
Ubbeston is in central E Suffolk, towards the N of the county, 5 miles SW of Halesworth, in the arable boulder-clay plateau typical of High Suffolk. The church and hall site that are all that remain of the village are sited on the rising N bank of a stream that flows eastwards to join the river Blyth at Halesworth. There is a slightly larger settlement at Ubbeston Green, 0.4 miles to the S.
The church consists of a nave with a S porch, chancel with a N vestry and a W tower. The flint nave and chancel are equally tall. The nave is 12thc., with round-headed N and S doorways; the N now blocked and visible only inside, and the S protected by a 15thc. brick porch with a battlemented parapet. Above each of these lateral doorways can be seen traces of large, blocked 12thc. windows. Three 15thc. windows have been inserted in the nave walls, two on the N and one on the S, the western N window having brick tracery. What appears to be a N buttress between the nave windows is in fact a modern chimney. An obscene relief set high on this is probably not medieval. The arch braced roof covers both nave and chancel with no chancel arch. The roof is also 15thc., much renewed. One of the chancel windows, on the S, is of brick and later than the other 15thc. windows. The priest's doorway could be ofc.1300. The modern lean-to vestry is brick. The west tower is 15thc., of brick. The diocese disposed of the church in the 1970s, and it is now a private residence and business premises, not normally accessible to visitors. The author and the CRSBI would like to express their gratitude to the owners for generously allowing access to record the 12thc. sculpture. The only Romanesque sculpture is on the S doorway.
Private house, formerly parish church
Charlynch is in N central Somerset, between the Quantocks and Bridgwater 4 miles to the E. It just about qualifies as a hamlet, consisting of the church and a couple of houses nearby on a minor road. The benefice was united with Spaxton in 1957, and in 1981 Charlynch church closed and the benefice was further united with Enmore and Goathurst. Charlynch church is now deconsecrated and in private hands.
It consists of a nave with a S porch and a transeptal S chapel; a chancel with vestry and organ chamber and a W tower, probably of 1867 and restored in 1887. The S doorway, chancel arch responds and font are 12thc work. Of these, the font has been removed to a private address which cannot be supplied, and is thus described here; the doorway is in-situ and described below, and the chancel arch responds are presumably still inside but were not accessible. They were seen by Pevsner and EH, whose comments are given below.