Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St. Lawrence is a Grade II listed building located in Tellisford, Woolverton. It dates from the 14th and early 15th centuries and underwent restoration in the 19th century. The church is constructed from coursed rough faced Doulting stone and features plain clay tile roofs with coped gables, finials, and crosses.

The structure includes a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The tower is divided into three stages and has a two-stage octagonal spire topped with a finial and weather vane. There are quatrefoil cusped openings on four sides of the tower, which are now blocked, and two-light windows in the bell chamber, with the east side also blocked. The tower is crowned with a battlemented parapet.

To the west of the tower, there is a vestibule with diagonal corner buttresses and a slate roof with a coped gable. The nave features two two-light windows and a central south porch, which also has diagonal corner buttresses and a slate roof with a coped gable. The north side of the nave has three two-light windows. The chancel contains a single two-light window that was rebuilt in 1888/9, showcasing early English cusped tracery under cusped arches with drip moulds.

Inside, the south porch has a pointed stone vault with three ribs supported by carved corbels, and a pointed arch leading to the entrance, which has a vertical boarded door with a "Y" framework. The nave has a barrel roof supported by three tie beams, although the plaster ceiling has been removed. The chancel arch is believed to date from the 13th century, and the chancel features a pine boarded and panelled ceiling. There is a font in the Perpendicular style, along with 17th-century chairs, stools, and an altar table. Memorials within the church include those for Thomas Wooley from 1835 and Thomas Meade from 1845.

Externally, on the southeast quoin stone of the nave, there are three inscribed dials, and on the southeast quoin of the chancel, there is an inscription in fine lettering stating "BM 212 FEET ABOVE THE SEA."