Church Of St Lawrence

SP 84 SW BROUGHTON LONDON ROAD

2/27 Church of St. Lawrence

17.11.66 I

Parish Church. C14 and 15 restored C19. Stone, lead roofs with plain parapets. Embattled W. tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses. Unaisled nave, S. porch; 3 windows, that to W. of porch C14 with reticulated tracery, 2 on the E. Perp. style. S. doorway has old door with original iron work. Chancel rebuilt C19. Roodloft staircase to N. of chancel arch. Interior: pulpit late C17 or early C18. Monuments under the altar a series of black marble stones to the Chester family; on the S. wall are some fragments of brasses to the de Broughton family C14-15, and on the N. wall a C17 monument to Thomas Duncombe, a panel surrounded by an eared architrave and broken segmental pediment. Wall Paintings in the nave, c1400, a remarkable series, restored by Prof. Tristram 1930's. On the S. wall,large St. George and Dragon, N. wall has a Doom and a Pieta designedas a sermon against swearing. Stained glass. Chancel E. and S. windows 1894 by Kempe. A nave S. window 1864 by A. Gibbs. (Graded I for wall paintings).

Listing NGR: SP8937740108