Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 October 2000. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 October 2000
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Lawrence, Lavernock, Sully
- OS grid reference
- ST 186 682
- Coordinates
- 51.40712, -3.17107
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Lawrence is a small medieval parish church built from local Blue Lias rubble, featuring some ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof adorned with cruciform finials, kneelers, and raised coping, along with a slender bellcote at the west end. The church has a simple plan consisting of an aisleless nave, a south porch, and a narrow, shallow chancel. The windows are designed with cusped lights. The gabled porch includes a plain chamfered pointed-arched doorway with voussoirs, and there are two-light square-headed nave windows with moulded hoods on each side. A similar single-light window is located on the south side of the chancel, along with a chamfered pointed-arched priests' doorway. The east window features two lights with quatrefoil tracery. The north and west elevations do not have any windows. There is a plinth, and at the southeast corner of the chancel, at ground level, are stones inscribed with cross patterns. Incorporated into the northeast and southeast chancel are inscribed stones, likely from the 13th century, depicting crosses.
Inside, the church is mostly rendered, with some areas of exposed stone and a floor made of mostly unglazed tiles. The 19th-century roofs consist of four bays with arch-braced trusses and exposed rafters in the nave. The narrow pointed chancel arch is chamfered and stopped at the base, featuring a raised impost band. The narrow chancel arch may reflect a 12th-century origin, according to Newman.
Local climate
Church of St Lawrence sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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