Church of St. Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1957. Church.
Church of St. Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-bonework-pine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1957
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. Lawrence, Weston Patrick
- OS grid reference
- SU 690 468
- Coordinates
- 51.21704, -1.01209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 12th century, with significant rebuilding in 1868 by T.H. Wyatt. Located on an ancient site, the church features a stylish Victorian Gothic design. It consists of a single cell nave and chancel, along with a south aisle and vestry. The exterior is topped with a steep slate roof, while the aisle has a flatter lead-covered roof. A prominent western bell turret, adorned with a shingled broach spire, sits above a double tier of openings and has slate-hung sides. The walls are constructed of flint with stone dressings, complemented by simple buttresses, hoodmoulds, and a plinth band.
The north side windows include a single lancet and two coupled lancets of varying depths. The east side features three lancets with small roundels that create a plate tracery effect, while the west side has an 8-cusped circular light above two detached lancets. A timber-framed porch on a stone base wall, with an arch-braced gable, encloses the oldest surviving feature from the original church: a plain round Norman doorway with a square outer moulding and square abaci.
Inside, the church is enhanced by moulded nave arches supported by plain drum columns with octagonal moulded caps and bases. The nave's plain scissors truss is covered in painted panels above the chancel, which is separated from the nave by a delicate arch-braced truss featuring cusped spandrel decoration, resting on short detached marble columns with moulded caps, mid-bands, and bases. At the west end of the nave, a massive king-post truss supports the bell turret above.
Additional interior features include a panelled reredos, a piscina, altar rails, a low stone screen wall below the chancel arch, an octagonal font, and stained glass. A small frame displays part of an embroidered altar cloth with the initials GG for George Green of Western Corbett House and IR, dated 1682.
Local climate
Church of St. Lawrence receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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