Church Of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church Of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- turning-minaret-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Lawrence is a parish church built in 1871 by J.P. Pritchett, with an early 20th-century addition that combines the Vicar's and Choir vestry. It is constructed from squared rock-faced sandstone in narrow courses, featuring ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. The church has an aisleless nave with a porch on the south side, an original vestry that is now a kitchen on the north side, and a choir/vicar's vestry added to the west end. There is a tower with a spire located at the southeast corner between the nave and the chancel, and the chancel includes an organ chamber on the north side. The windows display geometrical-style tracery.
The tower consists of three stages: the lower stage is angle-buttressed with trefoil-headed lancets and a pointed doorway on the east side; the second stage is short with cut-back corners; the octagonal belfry features trefoil-headed bell openings beneath hoodmoulds, topped by a tall octagonal stone spire. The nave has an angle-buttressed west end with a large sexfoil window and a truncated stack. The south side has a chamfered plinth and sill string, with two-light windows under hoodmoulds that have headstops, and a roll-moulded pointed doorway with red sandstone colonnettes inside the gabled porch. There is a blocked four-bay arcade of pointed arches on the north side, where a north aisle was intended but never constructed. The chancel is lower and narrower, featuring similar details and a large three-light pointed window on the east side. The roofs are very steeply pitched with coped gables. The north vestry has a pointed doorway and a pent roof, while the organ chamber has similar features. The flat-roofed four-bay choir/vicar's vestry includes lancets and a pointed doorway on the south side.
Inside, the church has a plain plastered interior with a tall pointed chancel arch, where the outer order is chamfered and the inner order has three roll mouldings on squat responds. A stained glass window created by L.C. Evetts in 1957 is located in the north wall, commemorating Rev. P.W. Francis. The nave roof features four arch-braced scissor trusses, while the chancel has a panelled barrel roof.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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