Church Of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1991. Anglican chapel. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- slow-corner-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1991
- Type
- Anglican chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BODMIN
SX0666 WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389) 629-1/3/109 (North side) 17/05/91 Church of St Lawrence
GV II
Anglican chapel. 1859-61. Coursed and dressed limestone with dry Delabole slate roofs. Apsidal chancel, 5-bay nave with south transept and aisle, porches and west bay. Early Pointed style, clearly influenced by the work of Ecclesiological architects such as White who worked in Cornwall. Gabled buttresses linked by sill course beneath paired and deeply-splayed lancets to chancel. Gabled E porch with hoodmould over pointed-arched plank door to south transept which has paired lancets to bellcote set over 2-light window with Geometrical tracery. Nave has small circular clerestory windows with trefoils and quatrefoils beneath eaves. S aisle has splayed lancets and porch with hoodmould over pointed-arched doorway. N elevation of nave has gabled and slightly projecting central bay with porch, flanked by paired lancets, and has vestry to east with pointed-arched doorway. Lower one-bay annexe to west has paired lancets to sides and group of 3 stepped lancets to west. INTERIOR: noted as having open timber roof, nave arcade and original fittings. Built for St Lawrence's Hospital at a cost of »1,515 and following its mid C19 expansion. (Kelly: Kelly's Directory of Cornwall: 1906-: 35).
Listing NGR: SX0605566926
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