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
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1991
- Type
- Anglican chapel
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Westheath Avenue, Bodmin, PL31 1QH
- OS grid reference
- SX 060 669
- Coordinates
- 50.46999, -4.73444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is an Anglican chapel built between 1859 and 1861. It is constructed from coursed and dressed limestone and features dry Delabole slate roofs. The building has an apsidal chancel, a five-bay nave, a south transept, an aisle, porches, and a west bay. It is designed in the Early Pointed style, influenced by Ecclesiological architects like White who worked in Cornwall.
The exterior includes gabled buttresses that are connected by a sill course beneath paired and deeply-splayed lancets leading to the chancel. The east porch is gabled and has a hoodmould over a pointed-arched plank door that opens to the south transept, which features paired lancets and a bellcote above a two-light window with Geometrical tracery. The nave has small circular clerestory windows adorned with trefoils and quatrefoils beneath the eaves. The south aisle contains splayed lancets and a porch with a hoodmould over a pointed-arched doorway. The north elevation of the nave has a gabled and slightly projecting central bay with a porch flanked by paired lancets, and a vestry to the east with a pointed-arched doorway. There is a lower one-bay annexe to the west that has paired lancets on the sides and a group of three stepped lancets on the west side.
Inside, the church is noted for its open timber roof, nave arcade, and original fittings. It was built for St Lawrence's Hospital at a cost of £1,515, following the hospital's mid-19th century expansion.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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