Description

TL 90 SW STEEPLE THE STREET
(north side)

4/181 Church of St. Lawrence
and All Saints

II

Parish church. Circa 1884 re-using some materials from demolished old church.
F. Chancellor. Random septaria, rubble, red and yellow brick, coloured brick
dressings. Red plain tiled roofs and buttress capping. Terracotta apex finials
to gables. Timber framed steeple, hanging tile base, timber sounding louvres,
shingle spire. Chancel, Nave, north vestry, south porch. Buttresses to all
angles and centre buttresses to Nave and Chancel north and south walls, similar
to west wall. East window of 3 trefoiled lights with quatrefoils and cinquefoil
over, 2 centre arched head. Foundation stone under laid by Susanna Claughton,
wife of the Bishop of St. Albans 13th August 1883. South wall of Chancel has a
lancet window to east, similar to north wall, a cusped 3 light with segmental
pointed head to west. Nave south wall, 2 lancets to east with a lancet niche
between, two 2 light windows with quatrefoils over, 2 centre arched heads.
Lancet to west of south porch. North wall, 2 eastern and 2 western lancets, two
2 light windows with tracery over, that with quatrefoil C14. 2 centre arched
heads, between the 2 central buttresses. West wall, 2 trefoiled lancets. All
with square leaded coloured glass. Gabled north vestry, stone chimney stack to
gable apex, 2 centre arched vertically boarded door to west wall, 2 lancets to
north wall. Gabled south porch, timber framed, plinth matching walls. C14
moulded 2 centre arched south doorway with head stops. Vertically boarded door
with timber grill and shutter. Interior. 2 C12 head stops in west wall of
vestry. Chancel, 6 cant ribbed and ceiled roof, foliate bosses, moulded wall
plates. C12 pillar piscina with ring soffit and square drain, spirally fluted
shaft in rectangular niche. Segmental head to Chancel arch. Nave. Scissor
braced roof, principal rafters on moulded stone corbels. Timber octagonal
pulpit with traceried side panels. Old stained glass in north window. C15
octagonal font with moulded soffit, moulded base, octagonal stem, moulded
capitals, bases and rings to 4 side shafts. Arcade of 2 bays to bell turret,
moulded capitals and bases, moulded 2 centred arches. Bell 1636 by Miles Gray.
RCHM 1.

Listing NGR: TL9346802975

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530703

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