Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- sunken-keystone-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Tellisford
- OS grid reference
- ST 790 540
- Coordinates
- 51.28515, -2.30221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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."
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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