The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
"hartford"
Parish church
Hartford is a village on the eastern edge of Huntingdon, on the N bank of the Great Ouse. The church is at the S edge of the village, alongside the river but high enough above it to avoid all danger of flooding. It is built of rubble with Barnack and other ashlar dressings, and consists of a chancel with a N vestry added in 1895; a nave with N and S aisles and a S porch; and a Perpendicular W tower with a projecting S bell stair. On the N side of the church is an extension opened in 2004 with a hall, kitchen and lavatories and accessed from the exterior and through the N nave doorway of the church. The chancel has 12thc N and E walls with no sculptured features. Otherwise it is of the 14thc but remodelled by Robert Hutchinson in 1861, including an elaborate neo-Romanesque chancel arch. The nave arcades are of the end of the 12thc; the N stylistically earlier. Romanesque features described here are the greatly restored S nave doorway, the two nave arcades and the font.
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St Peter's has a nave with a N aisle, chancel and W tower. The chancel has a mid-13thc. piscina, which may date the present core of the church. The N arcade and chancel arch are both 15thc., as are the tower and the N and S windows. The N clerestorey dates from this period too. The church was restored in 1851. Construction is rough, with nave and chancel of pebbles, the S chancel wall rebuilt in early brick, with brick repairs on the N side too, and the W tower and 16thc. S porch of irregular ashlar. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
Parish church
The parish of Naunton lies in the Cotswolds, 12 miles E of Cheltenham and 5 miles W of Stow-on-the-Wold. ‘Naunton’ is thought to derive from Niwe Tun, the new farmstead and is now the main settlement in the parish. The village lies on the floor of the River Windrush. Although the church of St Andrew has 12th-c origins, most of the present building dates from a rebuilding of around 1500. It consists of a W tower, five-bay nave with a shorter N aisle and a S porch dated 1878, and a two-bay chancel with a 19thc vestry to the NE. A Saxon cross found under the nave during the rebuilding in 1878 has been reset in the NW wall of the nave and is described in Bryant.
A corbel reset in the E wall of the vestry is the only surviving Romanesque sculpture; however, Glynne reports that until 1878 the S door retained a rounded arch with toothed mouldings dated to the 12thc.
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West Lutton is in the Great Wold Valley and about three miles north of Sledmere. From 1872 to 1875 a medieval chapel of ease was replaced by a new building (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 746; plan and full descriptive text in Bayly, 1894). The modern church has a spire, an aisled nave, a chancel lit by a large rose window, and a S porch and N vestry. Bayly (1894, 9) says the church is situated on the site of the old chapel, and that the label, now reset in the vestry, was once over its S door.
This arch, probably a label, is the only Romanesque sculpture surviving from the chapel.
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Sherburn is a village about 11 miles SW of Scarborough; it is known historically as Sherburn in Harford (or Herford) Lythe and is not to be confused with Sherburn-in-Elmet (West Riding of Yorkshire). The building is quite a large church for the area and consists of an aisled nave, S porch, chancel and W tower.
Romanesque sculptural elements are found externally on the S doorway and in the simple 12thc windows located in the S wall of the tower. Inside, there is a Romanesque high chancel arch, a pillar piscina and a cylindrical font.
Parish church
The church has a nave and chancel, with a bellcote between. It is of mixed fabric – rubble and boulders with ashlar dressings, patched with brick and largely rendered.
The relevant features include a remade doorway, a reset corbel and a capital, and a possible piscina basin.
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Kilham is a large village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about 5 miles W of Bridlington. It was a busy market centre until being surpassed by Driffield in the late eighteenth century. The church has chancel, aisleless nave and W tower. According to John Bilson, it was one of the largest of the earlier Wold churches and the wide nave is on its Norman plan, without aisles or chapels (1898, xviii). Traces of an impressive Romanesque church survive. Sculptural remains from this period include the spectacular gabled S entrance with doorway of six orders, an elaborate series of sculptured corbels on the N and S nave walls, some fine reused voussoirs in the interior tower walls, and a cylindrical font.
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The village is about four miles SE of Malton, at the foot of a steep hill. The church has a low aisleless nave and chancel, with a small 13thc W tower marked with a former nave roofline (Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 633). The roofline of an earlier chancel is marked on the W wall internally by a plain and chamfered moulding. The church was restored in 1886 (Borthwick Institute, Fac. 1886/16; Pevsner and Neave, 1995, 633-4).
The only surviving Romanesque corbels are on the N side of the church; their placement has been altered so they are more widely spaced than normal, and they project just below the modern guttering without a course of stone above. An undated photograph of the church by Henry Thelwell, a school-master at Sledmere from 1865 until about 1910, was probably taken before the restoration; it suggests that corbels once existed aso on the S side of nave and chancel.
Other external sculpture includes two round-headed doorways. A small stone with two beasts is reset above the blocked N doorway. On the W face of the tower a slab carved in relief with the figure of a bishop may be 12thc; a chevron voussoir is reset on the E face of the tower. Inside the church the Romanesque chancel arch has one order of chevrons, but the most exceptional and impressive sculpture is found on a cylindrical font.