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Church of St Laurence

A Grade II* Listed Building in Warborough, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6384 / 51°38'18"N

Longitude: -1.1358 / 1°8'8"W

OS Eastings: 459903

OS Northings: 193642

OS Grid: SU599936

Mapcode National: GBR 90N.7P1

Mapcode Global: VHCYH.82FT

Plus Code: 9C3WJVQ7+9M

Entry Name: Church of St Laurence

Listing Date: 18 July 1963

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1181123

English Heritage Legacy ID: 248178

ID on this website: 101181123

Location: St Lawrence's Church, Warborough, South Oxfordshire, OX10

County: Oxfordshire

District: South Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Warborough

Built-Up Area: Warborough

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Warborough

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/12/2020

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WARBOROUGH
THAME ROAD (east side)
Church of St. Laurence

(Formerly listed as Church of St. Lawrence)

18/07/63

GV
II*
Church. Early C13, C14 and C15; tower 1666; chancel restored 1881 by Bodley and Garner. Clunch rubble and flint with limestone dressings; old plain-tile roof. Nave, chancel, south transept, west tower and north vestry.

C13 chancel has a C14 east window, with Reticulated tracery, a C15 window of two cinquefoil lights, to north, and a similar window, to south, between a two-light C13 window, with plate tracery, and a C13 doorway, with roll-moulded outer arch and detached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. South transept has a two-light window with Reticulated tracery. Flint-walled nave has segmental-arched windows with Perpendicular tracery (one C19) and a south doorway with a moulded arch sheltered by a C19 timber-framed open porch. Nave roof has two dormers with elaborate C19 barge boards.

Three-stage crenellated tower has walls of banded flint and stone, with chequered octagonal corner turrets, and has four-centre arched openings with recessed spandrels and labels. West wall has 1666 in flushwork.

Interior: east window has detached jamb shafts, with stiff-leaf capitals, from an earlier window, and there are remains of similar arcading in the south wall. Nave and chancel have seven-canted coupled-rafter roofs, probably C14, and the plastered tympanum, above the C19 chancel screen, is painted on the east with C17 Prince of Wales feathers and the monogram "CP".

Fittings include a small octagonal C17 pulpit and a C17 parish chest. The Romanesque lead font has arcaded sides and stands on a C14 stone base with traceried panels; the strapwork cover is probably C17. Glass includes medieval fragments in the chancel north window, two late-C19 stained-glass windows, and three early C19 windows by A.J. Davies.

Listing NGR: SU5990393642

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