Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Church.
Church of St Laurence
- WRENN ID
- brooding-solder-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Laurence, Wynford Eagle
- OS grid reference
- SY 582 959
- Coordinates
- 50.76194, -2.5935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Laurence is a parish church built in 1842 by G. and H. Osborn. It features flint and rubble-stone walls that are rendered, and a slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. A stone bellcote is located on the west gable, topped with a steeply pitched roof and housing a bell. The church consists of a nave and chancel combined into one space, with a polygonal sanctuary. It is a single storey with three bays. The nave has right-angle buttresses at the corners, which include two pairs of set-offs and plinth moulding. Each bay contains one lancet window with labels featuring foliage stops and lozenge-leaded lights. The sanctuary has three stepped lancets with a label above, also adorned with foliage stops.
At the west end, there is a gabled porch with diagonal buttresses and a pointed-arch entrance, which has a label with carved stops. The entrance features a two-leaf plank and muntin door, and a two-light lancet window is positioned above the porch. A tympanum is built into the west wall, dating to around 1100, depicting two confronting wyverns with the inscriptions "MAHALD DE LEGELE" and "ALVI ME FECI".
Inside, the chancel arch is a pointed arch with responds and a hollow chamfer. The roof is constructed in the 19th century with queen-post construction and diagonal strutting. The piscina has an ogee trefoil head, with a 12th-century scallop capital reused as the piscina drain. The font is made of stone, featuring a circular bowl on a short round stem and square base, dating from the 13th century, and it is topped with a wooden cover that has a knop.
Local climate
Church of St Laurence receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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