Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- fossil-sentry-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Main Road, Milcombe
- OS grid reference
- SP 410 345
- Coordinates
- 52.00827, -1.40358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building dating from the 13th century, with restoration work carried out by G.E. Street in 1859. It is constructed of ironstone and features a Welsh slate roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, and north porch. The west tower has three stages, a crenellated parapet, finials, and diagonal buttresses. It includes single lancet windows on the second stage and paired lancets in the bell tower. There are remnants of 13th-century stonework visible in the hood moulds and moulded jambs of the west door, as well as in the north aisle window, which features Y-tracery. The 1859 restoration involved rebuilding the chancel, nave, south door, north aisle, and north porch, with all windows featuring geometrical tracery from this period.
Inside, there is a 15th-century screen with tracery in both the upper and lower panels, which has been repainted in the 19th century. Tracery from former Perpendicular bench ends has been affixed to a panel at the east end of the north aisle. The church also contains a 15th-century font with a small bowl set on an octagonal pedestal.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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