Church Of St Lawrence

TILNEY ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH ROAD TF 51 SW

11/47 Church of St. Lawrence 11.8.51 - II*

Parish church. C14 west tower and nave, nave restored 1846 when transepts added and chancel rebuilt. Tower of carstone and ashlar, remainder rendered. Plain tile roofs. 3 stage tower, externally of 2 stages, with stepped angle buttresses. West door of 2 orders of engaged columns supporting undercut arch. Restored 2 light west window. Slit lights to ringing chamber west and south. String course below 2 light arched belfry windows. Brick crenellated parapet. Polygonal stair turret to north-east. Gabled south porch with wave moulded entrance arch below square hood mould on labels. Low side buttressing. Double hollow chamfer inner doorway with hood on head stops. Arched and moulded north doorway. Nave with 2 3-light square headed cusped windows north and south separated by stepped buttresses. All this as in Ladbroke's 1820 drawing. Remainder completely altered in 1846. Short angle buttresses to transepts. 2-light plate tracery south transept south window. One lancet to east and west walls. Tall chancel with 2 pairs lancets to south with arched priests' door between. Stepped buttresses, angled to east. 3-light stepped east window beneath blank occulus. North chancel aisle with lancet to east, paired lancets to north wall, arched priests' door and 2 further lancets. North transept as south except east wall not pierced by lancet. Interior. Double chamfered tower and crossing arches, the latter with semi-circular responds and capitals. C19 nave roof of large arched braces meeting in centre of collars. One tier through purlins and ridge piece. Crossing roof of quadripartite arches. Transept and chancel roofs as nave. 2 bay double chamfered north chancel arcade with polygonal responds. East window with internal hood mould resting on head stops depicting a king and a bishop. Trefoiled piscina in south chancel wall. Painted Royal Arms to James I 1670 in south nave wall. Plain octagonal font.

Listing NGR: TF5496514860