Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1987. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- crooked-cobalt-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Stody
- OS grid reference
- TG 064 354
- Coordinates
- 52.87727, 1.06703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Lawrence is a medieval parish church constructed from coursed flint with a lead roof. It features a west tower, nave, chancel, south chapel, and south porch. The tower has diagonal buttresses with flushwork, an embattled parapet also with flushwork, and gargoyles on the north and south sides. The west window has been renewed and consists of two cusped lights beneath a multicusped quatrefoil, with a small stone Celtic cross positioned above. The bell openings are formed by two ogee-headed lights under a quatrefoil, although the central mullions for the west and south windows are missing.
The south porch is made of galletted flint and has a pantile roof. It includes flushwork on the diagonal buttresses and a moulded porch arch with three orders, featuring slender shafts at the front and rear. The pointed south doorway is adorned with a roll moulded hood mould. There is a blocked round-headed window from the 11th century that is splayed outwards to the south nave.
The south chapel, dating from the 15th century, is constructed with galletted courses of knapped flints alternating with whole iron-stained flints. It has windows with ogee-headed lights and panel tracery beneath pointed segmental arches, with four lights to the south, two to the west, and three to the east. A gargoyle is present on the east wall. The chancel has been renewed and is made of pebble flint, featuring a 19th-century east window with three lancets, external shafts, and flowing tracery. The north nave wall has four stepped buttresses made of brick and rendered coursed flint. The north doorway has a continuous hollow chamfer with label stops shaped like devil's heads, and it includes one window with 'Y' tracery and another two-light window with panel tracery.
Inside, the church has an open rafter roof with renewed shaped wall braces, while the south chapel features 15th-century moulded roof beams. The pointed chancel arch has two hollow chamfers and ogee moulding around the shafts. The north nave wall displays roll moulding and hollow chamfers on a three-light window, along with a small vaulted niche across the arris of the window splay. The font is plain and octagonal, resting on an octagonal stem with a moulded base and cap. Notable interior features include large black marble ledger slabs commemorating Edmund Britiffe and his wife from 1726, and another slab with an achievement for Edmund Britiffe from 1770, who was the Paymaster of his Majesty's Exchequer bills, along with his sister.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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