Church of Saint Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Church.

Church of Saint Lawrence

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of Saint Lawrence, Garstang Road, Barton
OS grid reference
SD 516 372
Coordinates
53.82899, -2.73604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Saint Lawrence is a church built in 1895 by architect R. Knill Freeman. It is constructed from yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and features a slate roof with red ridging tiles. The church has a nave with aisles, a south-west steeple, and a chancel with a south chapel, all designed in a simple Decorated style.

The two-stage tower includes angle buttresses that rise to corner pinnacles, a moulded arched south door, two square-headed lancet windows, and a clock face above. An octagonal belfry is situated between the pinnacles, featuring 2-light louvres on the cardinal sides, topped by a spire with lucarnes. The four-bay nave has clerestory windows with two round-headed lights and hollow spandrels. The buttressed aisles contain large arched 3-light windows with alternating intersecting tracery. The south chapel has two similar windows with Perpendicular tracery and another in its east gable wall. The west window of the nave and the east window of the chancel each have five lights but feature different tracery designs.

Inside, the church has a four-bay nave arcade supported by short octagonal columns with moulded caps and a coved wooden ceiling. There is a carved wooden reredos in Gothic style with a coved canopy and pinnacles. The west window features geometrical-leaded clear glazing with three stained glass insets, including a coat of arms and two shields with boar heads, which are said to be associated with Barton Old Hall.

Local climate

Church of Saint Lawrence sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.

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