St Laurence

Sandstone ashlar with machine-tile roof.

West tower 1676, north aisle C14, nave, south aisle and chancel 1859-1861.

West tower: incorporates some C15 features, rebuilt 1676, three stages, each offset.

C17 balustrade with crocketed pinnacles, diagonal buttresses: west wall: second stage has a window of trefoiled lights under 2-centred head

first stage: square-headed window with chamfered reveals, below clock and a datestone inscribed: "Samuell Richards and / Thomas Richards 1676" over a pair of addorsed dragons

south aisle: 1858-1861, lean-to roof, five bays, left-hand bay has timber-frame south porch to re-set restored C12 door which has a roll moulding to semi-circular head, a billeted label, and respond shafts with capitals

other bays mostly have paired trefoil lancets, each with a re-set C12 or C14 corbel above

north aisle: C14, altered C15, gabled roof

Interior: nave: north arcade of three bays with 2-centred arches and circular plan piers, south arcade of four bays wth 2-centred arches and slender columns, respectively Norman and Early English in style, but all C19

Re-set head of a C14 sedilia in south wall of chancel

early C15 tomb recess behind organ has an ogee cinque- foiled arch, crocketed and terminating in a carved finial

the low chancel screen is made up from probably C15 woodwork, including a frieze with trailing foliage, all painted.

brass mounted on wall to Philip Chatwyn, died 1542