Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- still-chamber-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Culgaith
- OS grid reference
- NY 646 325
- Coordinates
- 54.68657, -2.55051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a building that likely dates from the 13th century but underwent extensive restoration in the late 19th century. The nave is constructed from snecked rubble with quoins and features a cavetto moulding along the eaves. The chancel is made of sandstone blocks set on a chamfered plinth, with the original cavetto moulding reused above two courses of 19th-century masonry. The roofs are covered with graduated slate; the nave has a gabled bellcote at the west end and an outshut over the vestry, while the chancel is topped with a 19th-century apex cross at the east end.
The church has a two-cell plan that includes a vestry built with reused materials on the north side and a 19th-century west porch. The nave consists of four bays with lancet windows, while the chancel features two original lancets and a two-light 19th-century window on the north side. There is a partly-original priest's door situated between two two-light 19th-century windows on the south side. The jambs of the east window are partly original, but the tracery is from the 19th century.
Inside, the wide, pointed chancel arch has been extensively reworked, and the 19th-century roof includes crown-posts. A trefoil-headed piscina from the 13th century remains in the south wall of the chancel. Additionally, there is a 13th-century effigy of a knight wearing a linen cap and a pleated woollen tunic, with a sword at his waist.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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