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Church of St Lawrence

A Grade II Listed Building in Middleton St George, Darlington

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.5056 / 54°30'20"N

Longitude: -1.4633 / 1°27'47"W

OS Eastings: 434849

OS Northings: 512391

OS Grid: NZ348123

Mapcode National: GBR LJ6B.ZM

Mapcode Global: WHD78.H0DQ

Plus Code: 9C6WGG4P+7M

Entry Name: Church of St Lawrence

Listing Date: 27 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1185932

English Heritage Legacy ID: 350457

ID on this website: 101185932

Location: St Laurence's Church, Over Dinsdale, Darlington, County Durham, DL2

County: Darlington

Civil Parish: Middleton St George

Built-Up Area: Middleton St George

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Middleton St George

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE CHURCH LANE
NZ 31 SW (North side)
Middleton One Row

8/54 Church of
St. Lawrence

II

Parish church. 1871 by J.P. Pritchett; early C20 combined Vicar's and Choir
vestry. Squared rock-faced sandstone in narrow courses with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roofs. Aisleless nave with porch on south, original vestry (now
kitchen) on north and choir/vicar's vestry added on west end; tower with spire
in south-east angle between nave and chancel; chancel with organ chamber on
north. Geometrical-style tracery.

Tower of 3 stages: angle-buttressed lower stage with trefoil-headed lancets
and pointed east doorway; short second stage with cut-back corners; octagonal
belfry with trefoil-headed bell openings under hoodmoulds; tall octagonal
stone spire. Nave: angle-buttressed west end with large sexfoil window and
truncated stack; 4-bay south side has chamfered plinth, sill string, 2-light
windows under hoodmoulds with headstops and roll-moulded pointed doorway, with
red sandstone colonnettes, inside gabled porch with similar doorway and
trefoiled lancets on returns. Blocked 4-bay arcade of pointed arches with
inserted 2-light windows on north side (a north aisle was intended but never
built). Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel: similar details and large 3-light
pointed east window. Very steeply-pitched roofs with coped gables. North
vestry has pointed north doorway and pent roof. Organ chamber similar.
Flat-roofed 4-bay choir/vicar's vestry has lancets and pointed doorway on
south.

Plain and plastered interior: tall pointed chancel arch, outer order chamfered,
inner order with 3 roll mouldings on squat responds. 1957 stained glass
window by L.C. Evetts in north wall in memory of Rev. P.W. Francis. 4 arch-
braced scissor trusses in nave roof; panelled barrel roof in chancel.


Listing NGR: NZ3484912391

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