Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. A C19 Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-plinth-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Church Street, East Donyland
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85567, 0.94631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a parish church built in 1838 by William Mason. It is an octagonal structure made of white brick, designed in the lancet style. The church features groups of five stepped lancets on three sides, with entrances on two other sides and three lancets above one side. Inside, there is a monument to Elizabeth Marshall from 1613, likely from an earlier church. The reredos, dating from 1682, is said to have originated from St Paul's Cathedral. The roof is a grey slate pyramid.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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