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St Laurence

St Laurence

Preston on Wye

Herefordshire

C12, partly rebuilt C13, extended C14, restored 1625 and 1883 by T Nicholson.

Architectural Features

West tower C14, nave C12, chancel C13 and north chapel C14.

Ground floor west window is C15 of two cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a square head.

The C12 south door has a semi-circular arch of two moulded orders, the inner continuous and the outer enriched with chevron ornament and springing from C19 detached shafts with C12 scalloped capitals.

The north chapel of mid-C14 has diagonal buttresses.

The east window is C15 with two cinquefoiled lights under a square head.

Chancel, C13, rebuilt 1883, south wall has two windows, to west of two cinquefoiled lights with tracery in the square head, that to east of two trefoiled lights under a two-centred head.

Blocked priest's door of C13 with cusped two-centred arch.

Fittings: C17 communion table used as an altar.

Nave pews include some C16 simple carved bench ends. (RCHM, Vol 1, pp 218-9