List of Norman architecture in Cheshire

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The county of Cheshire contains some Norman architecture. As Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard state, this is not much in comparison with other counties. [1] What there is includes the following:

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Structures

LocationStructureDetailsRefsImage
Barthomley St Bertoline's Church Blocked doorway [2] [3] [4]
Bartholmey 3.jpg
Bruera St Mary's Church Chancel arch, south doorway [5] [6]
Chester Cathedral North transept, northwest tower, north wall of nave [7] [8]
ChesterFormer monastic buildings Undercroft, abbot's passage, chapel of St Anselm [9] [10]
Chester Chester Castle Items in the chapel of St Mary, Castro [11] Chester Castle (41) (15121577283).jpg
Chester St John the Baptist's Church Much of the interior, ruins to the east [12] [13] [14] St John's Chester Ruins.jpg
Church Lawton All Saints Church Doorway [15] [16] [17] Norman doorway, Church Lawton.jpg
Frodsham St Laurence's Church Arcade (part) and clerestory; carved masonry inside the tower [18] [19] [20] St Laurence Frodsham capital.jpg
Grappenhall St Wilfrid's Church Corbel table incorporated into the wall of the south aisle [21] [22] [23]
Middlewich St Michael and All Angels Church Fabric in the aisle arcades [24]
Neston St Mary's and St Helen's Church Masonry re-used in lower two storeys of the tower [25] [26]
Prestbury St Peter's Church Free-standing chapel in the churchyard [27] [28] [29] Prestbury, Norman chapel.jpg
Runcorn Norton Priory Doorway, undercroft [30] [31] [32]
Norton Priory Undercroft.jpg
Shocklach St Edith's Church Small church [33] [34] St Edith's Church, Shocklach.jpg
Shotwick St Michael's Church Doorway [33] [35] [36]
Norman doorway, Shotwick.jpg

Furnishings

LocationStructureDetailsRefsImage
Acton St Mary's Church Font [37] [38] [39]
Grappenhall St Wilfrid's Church Font [21] [22] [23]

Other

LocationStructureDetailsRefsImage
Acton St Mary's Church Free-standing carved stones [37] [38] [39]
Bunbury St Boniface's Church Free-standing carved stones [40] [41] [42]
Burton St Nicholas' Church Big, round scalloped capitals [43] [44]

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Citations

  1. Pevsner & Hubbard 2003 , p. 13.
  2. Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 71.
  3. Historic England, "Church of St Bertoline, Barthomley (1330063)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 17 April 2013
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  7. Pevsner and Hubbard, pp. 136–141.
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  21. 1 2 Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 225.
  22. 1 2 Historic England, "Church of St Wilfrid, Grappenhall (1139320)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
  23. 1 2 St Wilfrid, Grappenhall, Cheshire, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture of Great Britain and Ireland, archived from the original on 23 December 2012, retrieved 13 June 2010
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  27. Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 316.
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  30. Pevsner and Hubbard, pp. 296–297.
  31. Historic England, "Remains of Norton Priory (1130433)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
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  33. 1 2 Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 334.
  34. Historic England, "Church of St Edith, Church Shocklach (1228322)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
  35. Historic England, "Church of St Michael, Shotwick (1145903)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
  36. St Michael, Shotwick, Cheshire, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, archived from the original on 30 July 2012, retrieved 13 June 2010
  37. 1 2 Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 53.
  38. 1 2 Historic England, "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Acton (1330112)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
  39. 1 2 St Mary, Acton, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, archived from the original on 23 December 2012, retrieved 13 June 2010
  40. Pevsner and Hubbard, p. 120.
  41. Historic England, "Church of St Boniface, Bunbury (1138626)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 April 2013
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  43. Pevsner and Hubbard, pp. 121–122.
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