Church Of St Laurence

The Church of St Laurence is a Grade II* listed building located in Kirby Misperton. It dates back to the 14th century, featuring a nave, south aisle, vestry, and the lower stage of a tower. The porch and belfry were rebuilt around 1838, and the chancel was reconstructed in 1875 by C Hodgson Fowler. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar, incorporating fragments of 10th-century carved stone, and has a stone flag roof.

The west tower is two stages high and is supported by diagonal offset buttresses. It has a 2-light west window with a chamfered mullion beneath a flat hoodmould. The tower features pointed louvred bell openings that are paired beneath round arches in square-headed surrounds, along with raised string courses leading to an embattled parapet adorned with crocketed pinnacles. A wrought-iron weather-vane sits atop the tower.

The south aisle includes a west window with three cusped lights and panel tracery beneath a segmental arch. The porch is embattled and has a pointed opening with a hoodmould. The south doorway is hollow-chamfered and pointed, also beneath a hoodmould, and contains a nail-studded sunk-panelled door. The embattled south aisle has diagonal and intermediate offset buttresses, with three square-headed windows featuring paired cusped lights and panel tracery. The east window mirrors the design of the west window.

On the north side of the nave, there are three restored Perpendicular-style windows and a moulded eaves cornice. The windows on the south side of the buttressed chancel replicate those in the south aisle, and there is a moulded eaves cornice above a band of carved rosettes. The gabled vestry projects from the north side, featuring a pointed door with a hoodmould in the gable end. The west return has a window with two cusped lights in a square-headed opening, while the east return has a similar window with three lights. The buttressed east end has a pointed three-light window beneath a hoodmould.

Inside, the pointed tower arch has been altered and closed by a screen. The south arcade consists of double-chamfered arches that die into octagonal piers without capitals. The two-centred tower arch is made up of two orders, with the inner order resting on half-octagonal responds. An octagonal font is placed on a 19th-century pedestal.