Parish Church of St Laurence

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TL 30NE 3/18

HODDESDON Wormley CHURCH LANE (south west side) Parish Church of St Laurence

(Formerly listed as Church of Saint Laurence under Wormley)

13.4.61

II*

C12 nave with Norman door and window and C15 windows. Restored chancel, 1843-4. South aisle and porch added 1862 by J Clarke. Roughcast, stone dressings, flint and stone dressings on south. Machine tile roof. Norman door has two roll-moulded arches and scalloped capitals. C15 windows have cusped arches and hood moulds. Lancet windows to chancel, triplet on east end. Nave interior with stilted arches on paired columns and C15 tie beam. Saxon or early Norman circular font with frieze of upright leaves, and cable mouldings forming panels. Jacobean hexagonal oak pulpit with term figures. Choir has 1617 wall monument to William Purvey on south side, in alabaster with carved angels and putti. Painting ascribed to Palma vecchio presented 1797 on east wall. Modern weatherboarded bell-cote on west end. (Pevsner (1977) ).

Listing NGR: TL3552305866