Church Of St Lawrence

ST75SE TELLISFORD CP WOOLVERTON

4/498 Church of St. Lawrence

11.3.68

GV II

Church. C14 and early C15, restored in C19. Coursed rough faced Doulting stone and plain clay tile roofs with coped gables, finials and crosses. West Tower, Nave with South Porch and Chancel. Tower in 3 stages and 2 stage octagonal spire with finial and weather vane. Quatrefoil cusped openings on 4 sides, now blocked. 2-light windows to bell-chamber, blocked on East side. Battlemented parapet. To West of Tower, a vestibule with diagonal corner buttresses, slate roof with coped gable. Nave, two 2-light windows and central South porch with diagonal corner buttresses, slate roof with coped gable. Three, 2-light windows on North side. Chancel, single 2-light window rebuilt 1888/9. Early English cusped tracery under cusped arches with drip moulds. Interior: South Porch has pointed stone vault with 3 ribs on carved corbels and pointed arch to entrance, door vertical boarded with "Y" framework. Nave: barrel roof with 3-tie beams, plaster ceiling has been removed. Chancel arch said to be C13, pine boarded and panelled ceiling to Chancel. Perpendicular style font. C17 chairs, stools and altar table. Memorials include Thomas Wooley 1835, Thomas Meade 1845. External: On South East quoin stone to Nave, 3 inscribed dials; and on South East quoin to Chancel, inscribed in fine lettering "BM 212 FEET ABOVE THE SEA'.

Listing NGR: ST7902054045