Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a parish church dating to the late 15th century, with subsequent additions and a restoration in 1885 by Crickmay. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has gable-ended stone slate roofs with stone copings. The church's layout includes a nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, south chapel, and south organ chamber. A west tower rises in three stages, featuring a plinth, embattled parapet with gargoyles, a vice turret with loops, and buttresses. The west door has a moulded two-centred head with continuous jambs and a returned label. A two-light west window displays perpendicular tracery and a string course that continues as a label. The bell chamber windows are also two-light with mullions, transomes, and returned labels, topped by crocketted corner finials. The north aisle and south chapel are embattled with strings bearing gargoyles, and the windows are generally three-light with perpendicular tracery and stopped labels. The north aisle’s west window has intersecting tracery under a two-centred head, while the east window is of two lights under a square head. The organ chamber window is similarly styled. The chancel’s east window is three-light with perpendicular tracery under a two-centred head, while the north windows are two-light with square heads. Buttresses are situated between most windows and at the angles of the building. The south porch features a two-centred moulded head, continuous jambs, and a stopped label. Internally, the chancel, tower, and chapel arches are two-centred and moulded, with outer orders continuous with the jambs and an inner order forming respond shafts. A 19th-century arch leads to the organ chamber. The nave arcade has four bays and restored late 15th-century carved angel capitals bearing scrolls and squints to the chancel. A late 17th-century pulpit includes reeded lower panels and fretwork. A piscina is located in the north aisle. The original nave roof is a 15th-century barrel vault with ribs, carved bosses springing from stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and carved leaf bosses. The north aisle retains its original flat roof with intersecting moulded beams, forming coffers subdivided into four panels, the beam intersections bearing carved flower bosses. The chancel has a 19th-century ribbed barrel vault. The church incorporates 17th and 18th-century oak plank doors to the south and tower vice, as well as 18th, 19th, and 20th-century monuments, some 18th-century panelling, and various pieces of medieval carving.