Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 2005. A C19 Church.

Church of St Lawrence

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 2005
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Lawrence, Carlton Miniott
OS grid reference
SE 394 810
Coordinates
54.22347, -1.39593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Lawrence was built in 1895-6 by Charles Hodgson Fowler. It is a brick building with stone dressings and a single red tiled roof. The church includes a chancel, nave, a south porch, and a spirelet. The windows are narrow with round-headed arches. The chancel's east window is tripartite with minimal plate tracery under an elliptical hood mould. A stone sill band runs throughout all facades. The south side of the chancel features a three-light window and a two-light window with stone dressings. The north side has a hipped-roofed vestry with two-light, square-headed windows facing east and north, and a square-headed door to the west. The nave is only marginally wider than the chancel. A stepped buttress on the south side at the junction with the chancel bears a date stone at its base, and there are two two-light windows on the north side. On the south side are one three-light window to the east, and two two-light windows flanking the porch. The porch has a stone facade with wide stone buttresses rising to an apex topped with a crucifix, and a four-centred arch doorway. The west window is divided into a lower section with three round-headed arches, separated from the upper section by a transom, with the upper section containing three lancet lights under an elliptical hood mould. The spirelet, positioned over the junction of the nave and chancel, has a wooden bellcote and a pyramidal slate roof.

Inside, the chancel's east window contains a stained-glass crucifixion scene that acts as a First World War memorial. There is carved wooden panelling on the lower half of the walls. An organ recess is located to the north alongside the door to the vestry. Fixed wooden choir pews are also present. The barrel vaulted roof is painted with a geometric and roundel design, with gothic lettering around the edges. The reredos is made of wood with delicate Perpendicular tracery. The vestry contains Fowler's original plan for the church, and various mounted pieces of decorated wood from a previous church, carved with writing in Latin, including one with a date of 1621. A wooden pulpit, also from the previous church, is also located within. The nave features a barrel vaulted roof and fixed wooden pews. An octagonal font is present. A three-light window on the south side contains stained glass. The pews to the left of the entrance have been removed to create an open space. The lower panels of the west window also contain stained glass depicting a nativity scene.

The church is a fine and unaltered example of Hodgson Fowler's work, notable for its rare original decorative scheme in the chancel ceiling.

Local climate

Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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