St Lawrence

North aisle was added to and altered in C16 when the North aisle was rebuilt, and the West tower, South porch and South chapel were added.

The church is noteworthy for the monuments and glass in the South chapel, the furniture in the nave and the C16 brickwork.

Of three stages with embattled parapet and beast gargoyles at corners.

Shallow pitch, slate roof with C16 clerestorey.

Early C16 South chapel of pebblestone and limestone dressings.

In C17 the east end was shortened and the East wall rebuilt with narrow, gault brick.

One C13 lancet window

one C14 window of two trefoil ogee lights in square head to South wall.

C14 South door with ogee headed arch.

C13 South doorway.

Interior: C16 tower arch of limestone.

C13 North arcade of four bays.

The four-bay roof of the nave is C19 but the tie beams and jackposts are probably C16.

The walls of the tower and nave are plasterd. c.1505 South arcade of two bays.

At the East and West ends the inner chamfered order is carried on half octagonal corbels terminating in carved knot pendants.

Monuments: between South chapel and nave

1505 rectangular tomb of limestone and Purbeck marble with brass to William Taylard and Elizabeth, his wife.

North of the tomb in the nave is a brass to Alice (Forster), wife of William Taylard, 1513.

The stained glass in the South Chapel is reset and of C15, C16

In the Nave and South Chapel are fine, C16 oak pews.

C13 font.

13th century octagonal bowl on a circular shaft in St.Lawrence's church

© Richard Croft

C17 alms box in nave, in top of square post fastened to seat.