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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Corringham CP

Lincolnshire

Cll, C12, C13, C14, C15, 1882 restoration by Bodley and Garner.

Architectural Features

C19 embattled top with C15 water chutes.

North wall of aisle has 2 C15 2 light windows with ogee heads, panel tracery and hood moulds.

North clerestorey of 4 paired C15 trefoil ogee lights under square hood moulds under a plain parapet with 3 bold gargoyles above.

Transept north wall has stepped angle buttresses and a restored 3 light C14 debased curvilinear window with 3 trefoil lights surmounted by a trilobe set in a 2 centred arch with hood mould and human head label stops.

To north transept east wall a single 3 light C15 window with cusped lights, embattled panel tracery, 3 centred low head with human head stops.

East wall has a 3 light C19 window, chancel south wall has a C13 priest's door and 2 tall lancets, all with simple chamfered hood moulds.

South aisle east wall has C19 3 light window and in the south wall are 3 C19 copies of 2 light C15 windows.

The aisle west wall has a single C13 lancet.

The south porch dates from 1882 and is in C13 style with octagonal jambs to moulded 2 centred arch and 2 pierced side lights.

As good a 12th century Norman capital as you'll ever see in a parish church ! One of two delicately carved leaf-crocket capitals in the north arcade of St.Laurence's church

The C19 inner doorway is in Norman style with nook shafts, 2 orders of dog tooth moulding and a moulded hood mould.

As good a 12th century Norman capital as you'll ever see in a parish church ! One of two delicately carved leaf-crocket capitals in the north arcade of St.Laurence's church

© Richard Croft

the nave has a north arcade of 3 bays, the 2 westerly bays are late C12 with circular pillar and responds having stiff leaf volute capitals, square abaci and double stepped chamfered orders with hood mould and beast and human head label stops.

The easterly arch is early C13 with circular responds and double chamfered arch.

The south arcade has 3 bays of C13 work, the westerly pair have octagonal pillar and responds, stiff leaf capitals and double chamfered arches with human head label stops.

The C13 double chamfered arch dying to its reveals opens into the north transept, from which a C19 doorway opens into the vestry.

To the north and south side of the chancel are single large late C13 double chamfered arches, that on the north having conceptual foliage on the capitals, both having octagonal responds.

The north arch cuts through the site of an earlier C13 lancet.

On this side is a late C13 doorway with hood mould

ammonite label stops with to the east a moulded segmental headed C14 Easter sepulchre with central, presumably repositioned, clerical head.

There are 5 steps up to the altar, probably reflecting C14 ritual arrangement.

Nave, north transept and chancel roofs are of tie beam construction from 1882 and are elaborately carved and painted.

Some of the corbels are C15 work.

the carved screen base and misericord seats at the west end of the chancel date from C15 and the turned baluster altar rails are C18.

The C13 font is a circular blank arcaded bowl resting on an octagonal base with detached round shafts decorated with conceptual foliage sprigs and heads.

Monuments

in the chancel is a flat purbeck marble slab with a matrix for a C15 Lombardic inscription round the outer edge.

In the north wall is a C17 brass to Clifford and an unusual painted metal panel dated 1631 with decorated borders and shield.

A marble wall tablet in Greek taste to Sir John Beckett d. 1847 is grouped with 3 other C19 Beckett memorials in the chancel.