Church Of St Laurence

The Church of St Laurence is a Grade II* listed building located in West Challow. It dates from the late 12th century, with a chancel added in the late 13th century, and underwent restoration in the mid-19th century. The church features roughcast over limestone walling, limestone ashlar dressings, and a stone slate roof, with a 20th-century lateral brick stack on a limestone ashlar base.

The structure includes a nave and chancel. The east window is a two-light design from the late 13th century, flanked by angle buttresses. The chancel's side walls contain two-light square-headed windows from the 15th century. On the south side of the nave, there are mid-19th century plate-tracery two-light windows surrounding an early 16th-century four-centred moulded and blocked doorway. The north side features a mid-19th century two-light window in the style of the 15th century and a late 12th-century round-headed doorway with waterleaf capitals on a single order of shafts.

A 15th-century gabled porch has cusped and decorative bargeboards, with a timber structure and screens over a low limestone rubble wall, also restored in the mid-19th century. The west gable is supported by angle buttresses and includes a late 13th-century trefoil-headed lancet and a double bellcote from the same period. The roof is gabled.

Inside, the chancel has two corbels for statues, a piscina restored in the mid-19th century, and a wall tablet commemorating Elizabeth Hobbs, who died in 1757, and John Hobbs, who died in 1730. The chancel screen from the 15th century features one-light divisions. The nave contains an early 17th-century panelled pulpit and a tub-shaped font from the 13th century. The roof has a tie-beam design from the 18th century. The stained glass is primarily from the mid to late 19th century, with fragments of 15th-century glass found at the top of the east window.