Church Of St Lawrence

SE2233SW LS28 CHURCH LANE PUDSEY (east side) 6/117 Church of St. Lawrence

GV II

Commissioners' Church. c1821 by Thomas Taylor (Leeds) constructed by Messrs. Hainsworth & Co., digging contractors. Ashlar, Westmorland blue-slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower, nave with clearstorey, aisles, shallow sanctuary. Tower: 3-stages, embattled, with offset gableted angle buttresses with gablets surmounted by tall crocketed pinnacles. South doorway and all windows 4-centred arched. 3-light west window; 2nd stage has 2-light window; clock to each face; 3-light transomed belfry opening with traceried head. Nave: 5-bay, 3-light windows to aisles, 2-light to clearstorey with intersecting Y-tracery, articulated by tall gableted buttresses, embattled parapets continuing across gables. Sanctuary: one bay with low lean-to either side. 5-light transomed east window.

Interior: aisle arcade of tall octagonal columns with moulded capitals, coved flat-ceilinged roof. Galleried on 3 sides, the fronts finely carved c1922 when Perpendicular-style panelling was added above sanctuary arch which is flanked by contemporary painting by Madeline French. Re-pewed c1877 when 1st bay of nave was occupied by a new chancel with choir stalls with carved poppy heads and organ with elaborate case was added. Caen-stone octagonal pulpit with shafted marble columns.

Listing NGR: SE2203933062