Church of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building located in Darlaston, built between 1871 and 1872 by architect A.P. Brevitt. It is constructed of red sandstone with some yellow sandstone dressings and features a tiled roof. The church includes a west tower with a spire, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, and a lower chancel.

The tower is adorned with diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed bell openings featuring two cusped lights, and pierced parapets that have central clock faces and corner pinnacles. The stone spire is topped with lucarnes that have two trefoiled lights. Attached to the west side of the tower are single-storey 20th-century additions. The aisles consist of five bays separated by buttresses and have two tiers of 2-light windows, with the upper windows having depressed 2-centred heads. The south transept features a rose window above a pointed doorway with angle shafts, while the east window is composed of four lights with plate tracery.

Inside, the nave has five-bay arcades with pointed arches supported by cast iron columns that are decorated with spiral motifs. There are timber-fronted west, north, and south galleries with blank arcading. The nave roof is constructed with scissor-braced collar trusses. The chancel arch is pointed and features two shafts as responds, resting on angel corbels. A similar arch leads from the chancel to a north chapel. The chancel roof has a truss with a king-post that rises from an arch-braced collar. The aisles and chancel display re-set early 19th-century wall tablets. A painted pulpit in a Gothic style is equipped with cast iron steps, and the east window contains late 19th-century stained glass.