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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Holwell

Dorset

ST 61 SE HOLWELL THE BOROUGH 2/124 Church of St Lawrence Farmhouse - I Parish Church, late C15 with chancel, organ chamber and restoration of 1885.

Architectural Features

string courses, parapet string with gargoyles

crocketted corner finials North aisle and south chapel: embattled with strings bearing gargoyles

4 bay, 2-centred nave arcade having restored late C15 carved angel capitals bearing scrolls

late Cl7 pulpit with reeded lower panels and fret- work above

Cl5 barrel vault nave roof with ribs and carved bosses springing from chamfered wall plates bearing 3 orders of carved leaf bosses

original flat north aisle roof with intersecting moulded beams forming coffers each of which is subdivided into 4 panels, the beam intersections bearing carved flower bosses

monuments oftthe Cl8, Cl9 and C20

various pieces of medieval carving reset.