Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. A C13 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- drifting-trefoil-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, St Lawrence Road, South Hinksey, OX1 5AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 509 039
- Coordinates
- 51.73213, -1.2633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a church dating from the early to mid-13th century, with a late 15th-century tower and a chancel rebuilt in the late 18th century. It is constructed mainly of uncoursed limestone rubble, with the chancel being coursed and the tower of dressed limestone. The roof is stone-coped and covered with gabled stone slates. The church comprises a chancel, nave, and west tower.
The one-bay chancel, dating to the late 18th century, features round-arched windows with leaded lights and raised key- and impost-blocks. The three-bay south wall of the nave contains 13th-century pointed lancet windows, one with a scratch dial, and a paired lancet with a late 19th-century head and mullion. The north wall features an early 14th-century two-light ogee-headed window, a late 19th-century timber and glazed porch, and a 17th-century chamfered round-arched doorway. The tower has a 2-light cinquefoil-headed window above a plain chamfered 4-centred doorway leading to an ancient studded door, which is cemented at its base. Also present are 2-light round-arched belfry windows and a stair-turret with a slit window on the north side.
Inside, the church contains a 13th-century chamfered 2-centred chancel arch. Medieval rood stairs are located in the south-east corner of the nave, along with a squint from the former rood-loft, overlooking the chancel arch. There are three arches above a double piscina with quatrefoil basins. A 13th-century tub font and a hollow-chamfered archway with moulded imposts lead to the tower. Later additions include a rood screen constructed in 1932, a pulpit from 1936, and a nave roof from 1959. Plain 19th and 20th-century wall tablets are in the chancel, and a floor tablet commemorating Jane Willis, who died in 1723, can be found in the nave floor.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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