Church of Saint Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 July 2001. A Medieval Church.
Church of Saint Lawrence
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 July 2001
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of Saint Lawrence is a 19th-century building constructed from rubble stone with slate roofs and yellow clay crested ridge tiles, although these have been removed from the chancel. It features a small nave, chancel, a large south porch, and a prominent west bellcote. The west end has a shouldered gable and a 19th-century cusped lancet window with stone voussoirs, along with a bellcote that has stepped sides, a restored coped gable, and two pointed bell openings. The south wall is battered, and the porch has a shouldered gable with a pointed stone doorway, along with a similar inner south door, both of which date before the 19th century and are chamfered with diagonal stops, set higher than the current ground level. There is a broken stoup in the corner of the porch. The nave's south wall has one 19th-century lancet window on the right. The chancel has no windows on the south side but features a three-light east window with three roundels at the apex and stone voussoirs. There is a lean-to north vestry with two cusped lights on the east side and a pointed door on the west. The nave's north wall is not battered at the base and has two 19th-century cusped lancets.
Inside, the church has whitewashed plastered walls and slate-paved floors that are attractively edged with a zig-zag pattern of red and buff tiles. The nave has a 19th-century roof supported by three large arch-braced collar trusses on corbels. The windows have pointed rear arches, and the south door has a flat head. The low round chancel arch features thin imposts made of rough slate. The narrow chancel has a patterned tile floor and a 19th-century collar-rafter roof that is ceiled at collar level. A massive corbel on the northwest wall by the chancel arch supports a curving piece of wall. There is a pointed north door leading to the vestry. A large 12th-century square font tapers below to a round shaft with a moulded round base. On the south wall of the chancel is a relief-carved small Celtic cross in purple stone, possibly dating from the 10th to 11th century. The church contains 19th-century pews and a timber pulpit with cinquefoil pierced panels, tapering to a small stone base. There are also 19th-century stalls and wrought iron standards for the rails, featuring leaf and cross motifs.
Memorials include two fine plaques on the north wall signed by Greenways of Bristol: one commemorates John Protheroe of Egremont and later Stone Hall (died 1807), presented as a grey and white tapering plaque with laurel ornament, while the other honors John Wogan of Stone Hall and his descendants up to William Ford (died 1793), depicted as a shield plaque in buff and white marble. Additionally, there is a plaque in the chancel south wall dedicated to Thomas Higgon (died 1834), signed by J Thomas of Haverfordwest.
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