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

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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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  1. Cross Stump in St Lawrence's Churchyard to South of Transept Grade II 19 m
  2. Dent Tombs and Railed Enclosures in St Lawrence's Churchyard to South West of Chancel Grade II 28 m
  3. Footbridge Over Dalesbank Beck to South of Church Grade II 36 m
  4. Gibson Memorial and Railed Enclosure in St Lawrence's Churchyard to East of Chancel Grade II 59 m
  5. Crosby Ravensworth Hall Grade II 70 m
  6. Roadbridge Over Dalesbank Beck to South East of Church Grade II 73 m
  7. Hearse House in St Lawrence's Churchyard to North East of Chancel Grade II 88 m
  8. Monks' Bridge House Grade II 96 m
  9. Monks' Bridge Over the River Lyvennet Grade II 114 m
  10. Crake Trees (Tower House) Grade II 918 m