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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Botley and North Hinksey

Oxfordshire

Early C12: early C13 tower, C13-C16 fenestration: chancel arch rebuilt by John Macduff Derick in 1800's. Uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings

Architectural Features

C15 cinquefoil-headed east window: 2-bay chancel has early C16 four-light window and C13 pointed lancet above Norman lancet to south, and restored C14 trefoil-headed lancet and blocked C16 doorway to north

2-bay nave: north wall has Norman lancets flanking Norman doorway with voussoirs and quoining partly intact: south wall has C15 three-light cinquefoil-headed window and unusual late C13 three-light window with lozenge tracery in triangular head, which flank C17 porch with chamfered oak frame and studded door: fine C12 south door with zig-zag carving to roll-moulded arch set over columns of single order with scalloped capitals

late C17 communion table with C20 top

C16 queen-post roof of 2 tiers with downward arch bracing from central stud to tie beam, and C20 replacement of collars, purlins, windbraces and rafters

Chancel arch and flanking arches built in Norman style by John Macduff Derick: previously a more simple Norman arch and squint

Nave: studded door to rood stairs, 2 early medieval aumbries, early C19 lectern and missal

C15 octagonal font has finely-carved Decorated blind tracery

Monuments: floor tablets in chancel to Elizabeth Fynmore, c.1715, and William Fynmore, d.1757

Baroque wall tablet, probably by William Bird, to William Fynmore d.1646 and his son d.1673: heraldic achievement and putti rest on oval panel with richly-carved surround

Stained glass: 1930 memorial east window

Late C19 glass in 2 chancel windows and east window of nave: reset C15 fragments in west window

The unusual late C13 triangular-headed window is similar to those at Cumnor (q.v.), Stanton, John and Theale. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.407

National Monuments Record).