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St Laurence

St Laurence

Wicken

Cambridgeshire

Mainly C14

Architectural Features

the chancel is C13

the clerestorey C15.

Nave with C15 clerestorey, each side having three windows of two trefoil lights.

The south aisle has three C14 windows, all restored in C19, and a window at the east end which has the original clunch tracery.

South porch, also C14.

Chancel, C13, but the south wall has been extensively repaired.

Fenestration is C14, restored, except for one C13 lancet in north wall.

The north doorway is C13, reset.

The tower arch, nave arcade, and chancel arch have similar C14 nave moulding in two-centred arches.

The roof is C15, probably the same date as the clerestorey, and in three bays.

Monument: marble slab in chancel to Henry Cromwell, 1673, and Elizabeth, his wife, 1687 and Henry, his son, 1692.

Brasses.

Margaret Peyton, 1414

John Peyton, 1520.

Outside on east wall of south aisle, wall monument to William Drage, 1728.

Three stalls in chancel with misericords carved on the underside, one with female head, and two with enriched scrolls.

In vestry, coffin lid, with omega ornament, medieval.