Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed church located on Main Street in Fewston. The medieval tower underwent restoration around 1800, while the rest of the church was built in 1697, with some 19th-century alterations. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof.

The church has a three-stage tower and a five-bay nave that includes a north aisle and a gabled open south porch at the second bay. The chancel has three bays and is adorned with rusticated quoins. The tower features round-arched belfry windows from around 1800, an impost band, a coved cornice, a battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles, and offset diagonal buttresses. The east face of the tower shows the roofline of an earlier steeply-pitched roof.

The south porch is accessed by five steps leading to an outer entrance with a shallow segmental arch, flanked by pilasters and a projecting band over the arch that has a keystone dated 1697. The porch also has a pulvinated frieze and cornice, shaped kneelers, gable coping, and a cross at the apex. Inside, there is a massive inner door with three panels, likely original.

The nave contains four cross windows with eared architraves, projecting sills supported on consoles, and pulvinated friezes above. A continuous drip moulding steps out over the windows, with a cavetto-moulded cornice above and stone gutter brackets at the higher eaves line. The chancel's south face features a central four-panel door in an eared architrave, with a projecting keystone supporting the sill of a two-light recessed chamfered window with a flat-faced mullion. There is a similar two-light window to the right and a single light to the left, with window surrounds, drip moulding, eaves cornice, and gutter brackets matching those of the nave. The right side has a shaped kneeler and gable coping. The east window is a three-light Perpendicular style window that reuses medieval tracery and has a hood mould.

On the north side, there are five aisle windows for the nave, each two-light with plain raised surrounds. Inside, the church features a Tuscan arcade with four round arches supported by columns with cushion capitals, and a similar chancel arch. There is a trefoil arch to the piscina in the chancel's north wall. The church also contains a c1697 octagonal stone font with an oak cover carved with scrolls and foliage, suspended from cast-iron brackets. The church is also known for being dedicated to both St Michael and St Lawrence.