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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Barton-on-the-Heath

Warwickshire

Early and late C12

Architectural Features

C14 with some C15 alterations

C17 and C19 restorations

Early C12 chancel

east wall rebuilt C14 and the south wall rebuilt C17

To east a part-restored C14 window of 3 cusped lights with cusped roundel above flanked by mouchettes

Hood mould with ball flower ornament and carved head labels

To north a C12 single light

head decorated with beast carving and scroll work

Towards west of north wall a C14 cusped light, now part blocked

Early C12 nave of 2 bays with coped gables, with cross at apex to east

To south a C12 doorway of single semi-circular arch

To left of porch a C14 window of 2 ogee-headed cusped lights and quatrefoil

Towards east a large C15 square-headed window of 3 cusped, ogee-headed, lights with cusped tracery above

Hood mould with carved beast-head labels

To left a memorial tablet to Walter Overbury Esq., who died 17-. Elaborately carved base and top

Carved coat of arms below

South chapel added mid C14, with diagonal buttresses, quoins and coped gables with crosses at apexes

first 2 are C12

top stage added C14

C14 bell-chamber stage has a cusped ogee-headed light with chamfered surround and stone slate louvres to each face

Interior: C12 window in north wall of chancel has chevron moulded head on wide inner splays

Early C12 chancel

probably rebuilt late C12

East side of chancel arch has a fragment of a carved pig and scroll ornament, probably re-used

To south of nave a C14 double-chamfered arch with polygonal moulded capitals

To immediate left of C12 doorway a C15 stoup

C15 window in north wall has moulded piscina with hood mould and labels

above a C12 semi-circular arched doorway

early C12 semi-circular arched light with wide inner splays

C15 octagonal carved font

In 2 windows to north wall of chancel C14 fragments of stained glass, probably re-used from east window including a representation of the grid iron of St

In chancel floor a brass to Edmund Bury who died 1558

whose widow placed the monument in 1608

Carved coat of arms and a crest 2 further C17 memorial slabs

Richly carved marble surrounds with broken pediment