Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1979. A C19 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- muted-chancel-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1979
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Chapel Street, Morecambe
- OS grid reference
- SD 432 642
- Coordinates
- 54.07141, -2.86838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a former parish church, now no longer in use, built between 1876 and 1878 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. It is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble and features red tile roofs in the Decorated style. The church includes a tall nave and chancel with clerestoreys, north and south aisles, a south porch, a north porch that was intended to support a tower, a south chapel, and a north vestry.
The west wall has two three-light windows with reticulated tracery. The gabled south porch features a moulded pointed doorway with a carved panel above it. The nave clerestorey has four two-light windows, while the chancel clerestorey has two three-light windows, all adorned with various types of Decorated tracery. The south chapel has paired gables, each with a flat-headed two-light window. The east window is five lights wide and includes flushwork panels below, made of sandstone infilled with rubble.
Inside, the church has four-bay nave arcades supported by octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. The chancel arch is high and moulded, with an additional arch to the north of the chancel and more elaborately moulded arches in the two-bay south chapel. The nave and chancel feature waggon roofs with braced tie beams, but the furnishings have been removed. The architectural historian Pevsner regarded this church as Paley and Austin's finest work in Morecambe.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings