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St Lawrence

St Lawrence

Hatfield

South Yorkshire

C12 origin, C13 arcades otherwise mostly C15

Architectural Features

C12 inner door with round arch and hood with ball and billet ornament and head-carved stops

Nest door, flanked by large buttresses, has C12 4-order round arch with shafts and carved capitals

small C12 west window.

Clerestorey: purely C15 with panel-traceried heads to 3- light windows beneath 2-centred arches, hoodmould with weathered head-carved stops.

north chapel windows unrestored, the merlons above with carved motifs.

Interior: C13 aisle arcades with cylindrical piers and matching responds to double-chamfered arches

C15 nave roof with moulded tie beams and carved bosses.

C15 roof with boss.

C15 roofs, eastern ends restored.

Fittings: C15 rood screen with slender one-light divisions and coving with lierne ribs and pendants

Font has c1300 base with 4 shafts around a column to a C19 octagonal bowl.

Benefactions tablet, dated 1695 and near south door, has broken segmental pediment.

Glass: south aisle windows by Kenpe, and Tower and Kempe.

C12 dug-out chest iron-bound and originally with 10 locks.

Monuments: in south transept a restored wall monument to William 0ughtibridge (d1728) with concentric inscription in wreath with flowers and angels, signed 'T. Oughtibridge, engraver'.

South chapel: table tomb with shields in cusped lozenges, also C18 and C19 wall monuments including a broken-pedimented plaque to Mrs. Judith Jackson (d1728).

North chapel: standing monument to John Hatfield (d1698) also wall monument to the Hatfield family, John (d1767), Susannah (d1765), et al, in the tori of an aedicule with broken pediment beneath flat obelisk with cartouche.