Church Of St Lawrence is a Grade I listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. A C12 Church.
Church Of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-floor-nettle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a Grade I listed building dating from the 12th century, with restorations from the 13th century. The chancel arch was restored, and the east wall was rebuilt in the late 18th century, with further restoration in 1927. The church is constructed from rubblestone with clunch dressings, featuring coursed dressed stone and brick quoins at the east end, while the west end and vestry are rendered. It has a plain tiled roof, with Horsham slabs on the porch, and a weatherboarded bellturret topped with a shingled broach spire at the west end. Originally, it was an apsed Norman church, later expanded with a south chancel chapel that has since been destroyed, leaving a nave and chancel with a north aisle and vestry, as well as a south porch. The nave and chancel are supported by diagonal buttresses, and feature Y tracery windows and lancets.
Inside, the church has been much patched and altered, with stone floors. There is a two-bay 13th-century round-arched north arcade on circular piers with abaci and double chamfers to the arches; a central pillar supports a stone bracket with a carved monster head. The north aisle has a four-bay queen post roof, while the nave features a two-bay crownpost roof. The 13th-century chancel arch dies into imposts. The south chancel wall contains a priest's door and remnants of the south chancel chapel, including one stiff leaf capital on the east respond. The north aisle chapel arch to the chancel has a hard plaster foliage impost frieze.
Fittings include a rectangular piscina on the north chancel wall and an oak panelled dado screen across the chancel. There are traces of wall paintings in the chancel arch spandrels and on the north aisle walls. A monument on the north chancel wall is dedicated to Elizabeth Legrew, dated 1825, featuring a kneeling profile figure with a book under an ogee arch, all made of white marble and carved by her son, with the inscription: "Legrew Sculpt, 1832."
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