Church of St Lawrence is a Grade I listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. A Medieval Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- sharp-transept-sedge
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 621 148
- Coordinates
- 54.52743, -2.58647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a parish church with its earliest structure dating back to around 1200. Significant rebuilding occurred in the early 19th century by architect Robert Smirke for William Dent, with inscriptions noting the names of the masons and the clerk of works. The church was further remodeled in the late 19th century by J.S. Crowther. It features coursed, squared rubble with dressed stone details, stone blocks for the tower, and ashlar for the porches. The roofs are covered with graduated slate, complete with stone copings, kneelers, and gable crosses.
The church includes a west tower, a four-bay nave, a transept, and an aisless chancel, all of which are buttressed. The tower is a three-stage, castellated structure from the 15th century. There is an ornate gabled porch on the south side of the first nave bay, dated 1811, which has a plank door. The aisle windows are 19th-century, designed in the Decorated style, while the clerestory is squat with small, round windows. The gable end of the transept features two 19th-century lancets with a wheel window above. The three-bay chancel has an ornate central 19th-century porch, with Decorated style windows on either side and above.
Inside, the nave arcade is supported by pointed arches on filleted, quadripartite piers, with surviving parts from around 1200 featuring keeled major shafts. The 19th-century south chapel includes wall arcading, paintings, and Minton tiles, separated from the main church by an arcaded wooden screen. There is an early 16th-century altar tomb dedicated to Sir Lancelot Threlkeld in the chapel on the north side of the chancel, and an octagonal stone font dated 1662.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Gibson Memorial and Railed Enclosure in St Lawrence's Churchyard to East of Chancel
- Crosby Ravensworth Hall
- Roadbridge Over Dalesbank Beck to South East of Church
- Hearse House in St Lawrence's Churchyard to North East of Chancel
- Monks' Bridge House
- Monks' Bridge Over the River Lyvennet
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