Church of St Romald

Heritage listing

Details ROMALDKIRK MIDDLE GREEN NY 9922 (North side, off) Church of St. Romald 29/164 Inset 12/1/67 (Formerly listed as Church of St Romald I the Hermit) Parish church. Late C12-C16 incorporating Saxon masonry: late C12-early C13 nave; late C13 south aisle and south transept; c.1330 north aisle and north transept rebuilt; c.1360 chancel and north vesirji C15 tower; C16 north wall of vestry rebuilt; chancel restored 1890-4; organ chamber added 1929. Dressed and rubble sandstone; graduated green slate roofs. West tower; aisled nave with north and south transepts and south porch; chancel with north vestry and organ chamber. Transitional nave arcades and Perpendicular tower. 3-stage tower has stepped diagonal buttresses; 3-light Perpendicular west window to 1st stage; scattered slit openings above; 2-light mullioned-and-transomed bell openings with cinquefoil heads; embattled parapet with worn gargoyles and later corner pinnacles. 3-bay nave has steeply-pitched roof. 4-bay chancel; stepped buttresses with crocketed pinnacles divide bays (central and south-east buttresses have ogee niches); south side has three 2-light windows with Geometrical-tracery, restored low-side window and priest's doorway; 3-light window with Reticulated tracery in wider east bay; diagonally-buttressed east end has 5-light window with odd tracery combining Geometrical and Perpendicular styles; steeply-pitched roof. South aisle: angle-buttressed returns; Y-tracery and lancet windows; pointed doorway of 2 chamfered orders with single flanking colonnettes and a pair of boarded doors with C17 ironwork; low-pitched roof behind solid parapet. South porch has stone side benches and a low-pitched roof. South transept is one bay wide and 2 bays deep: angle buttresses; 5-light south window with odd Geometrica

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.