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St Laurence

Architectural Features

C14 chancel and remodelling

C17 restoration

Nave has 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window to left of porch and three 4-light chamfered mullioned windows to right, all with hoodmoulds, to right is C14 pointed door with hollow-moulded doorway and canopy, C18 parapet with brick panels and saddleback coping

C13 south transept has angle buttresses, lancet to west, three stepped lancets to south and one roll-moulded lancet and unusual 2-light Perpendicular window to east side, 1743 cartouche

South and north sides of chancel have three 2-light geometric windows, good gargoyles

Fine C13 double- chamfered arches with fillet mouldings and stiff-leaf capitals to grouped-shaft responds of crossing

Chancel has C19 6-bay tie-beam roof on foliated corbels, Tudor-arched squint through to Lady Chapel, restored C13 sedilia with four arches and shuttered window to south side

Fittings: C13 Purbeck marble font at west end of south aisle

wall painting on west wall possibly depicting The Flight into Egypt

Fine C18 hexagonal pulpit sounding board is now table at west end

Victorian pews and pulpit

Fine group of mid-C18 marble monuments with obelisks in chancel to Feversham family, by Peter and Thomas Scheemakers, good tablets in Lady Chapel such as a fine baroque marble to Charles Duncombe died 1711

Some C14 glass in north aisle

C19 glass includes fine east window by E. Frampton of London