New Saint Lawrence Church is a Grade I listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A 1778 by Nicholas Revett for Sir Lyonel Lyde Church.
New Saint Lawrence Church
- WRENN ID
- secret-steel-wagtail
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- 1778 by Nicholas Revett for Sir Lyonel Lyde
- Address
- New Saint Lawrence Church, Ayot St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- TL 191 168
- Coordinates
- 51.83797, -0.2717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Saint Lawrence Church, built in 1778 by Nicholas Revett for Sir Lyonel Lyde, is a Grade I listed church in the Grecian Revival style. The building features painted stucco on red brick, with a Portland stone stylobate and dressings. Its design includes a tetrastyle Doric order temple front, connected to small square open-pedimented pavilions by screens with two-column openings. The large and small columns have revealed fluting at the tops and bottoms of their shafts. Inside, there is a square coffered portico ceiling and a prominent door surround with pilasters in antis that encloses a smaller surround and eight-panel double doors. The interior follows a Greek-cross plan, with continuous pilasters below the windows that transition to an Ionic screen in the west vestibule. The nave ceiling is coffered with nine panels, while the east end features a coffered semidome and square recesses. The original organ is located in the south transept, and there is a font in the portico along with funerary urns in the pavilions.
Local climate
New Saint Lawrence Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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