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St Romald

St Romald

Romaldkirk

Durham

Late C12-C16 incorporating Saxon masonry: late C12-early C13 nave

Architectural Features

late C13 south aisle and south transept

c.1330 north aisle and north transept rebuilt

c.1360 chancel

north vesirji C15 tower

C16 north wall of vestry rebuilt

embattled parapet with worn gargoyles and later corner pinnacles.

pointed doorway of 2 chamfered orders with single flanking colonnettes and a pair of boarded doors with C17 ironwork

Fittings and monuments: tall grave slab with incised cross inserted into blocked north door

recumbent straight-legged stone effigy of Hugh Fitz Henry died 1305, in chain mail and holding shield, on chest tomb in north transept

probably C12 font

at west end of south aisle, has a circular bowl with 3 tiers of horseshoe- shaped leaf decoration, on a base with 4 attached colonnettes (probably C17 ogival wood font cover)

late C15 fragments of Newlyn grave slab with matrix, built into-chancel north wall

circa 1728 panelled oak pulpit (originally part of a three-decker) has an octagonal tester and a staircase with turned balusters and a ramped handrail, tripartite reading desk section now at west end of north aisle

several good C18 wall monuments: to Joseph Heaton died 1750 and to Georgio Ledgard died 1727 (both on chancel-north wall), 4 monuments to members of the Maire family in north transept