Description

FRODSHAM C.P. CHURCH ROAD
SJ 57 NW
(North Side)
2/61 Church of St Lawrence.
8/1/70
GV I
Church, late C12 with earlier fragments, alterations various dates
and restoration by Bodley and Garner 1883. Red sandstone. West tower;
nave of 3 1/2 bays with aisles under separate ridges; north and south
porches; chancel of 3 bays with 2-bay north and south chapels; crypt
vestry west of tower. 3-stage tower has low ramp roof to cellar vestry
on west side; diagonal west and square east buttresses; 3-light
panel-tracery west window; clock on north and south faces; 2-light bell
openings; crenellated parapet. Decorated west window to south aisle;
3-light west window with intersecting tracery to north aisle. North
gabled porch, 1724, has plinth, round archway and cornice at impost
level. South gabled porch, 1715 has Tuscan pilasters, round archway
and ball finials. North aisle has two 3-light curvilinear windows,
north chapel two 4-light Tudor-arched panel-tracery windows. South
windows rebuilt 1880-83. Small Romanesque clearstorey windows.
Perpendicular window to each side of east bay of chancel; 7-light
panel-tracery east window. 5-light panel-tracery east window to north
chapel (now organ chamber) and 5-light ogee tracery east window to
south chapel. Crenellated parapets. Much exterior stonework renewed
by Bodley and Garner 1880-83.
Interior: Tower has tall blank arches north and south, a fragment of
Norman zig-zag moulding and 2 mid C11 figures. Romanesque arcades,
restored, with round columns and one octagonal column, square abaci
and single-stepped arches; terminating in narrow arches by Bodley and
Garner against chancel wall. Chancel arch dies into side walls.
4-centred arches between chancel and chapels. Good oak: reredos in
north chapel (now between chapel and organ chamber) with 2 Corinthian
columns and 2 pilasters, circa 1700. Communion rail circa 1700 with
barleysugar balusters. Organ case by John Oldrid Scott. Late C19
and C20 glass in chancel and chapels. Oak chest; oak communion tables.
Principal features of interest are the Cll/C12 work, rare in Cheshire,
and the north chapel reredos.

Listing NGR: SJ5212377296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Laurence's Church, Frodsham at Wikipedia
• St Laurence's Church, Frodsham official website
• Wikidata Q7593929

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