Saint Lawrence

south door, C14 aisles, C15 tower parapet.

pointed double- chamfered doorway with ornate early-mid C14 wrought-iron strap-hinges on C19 door, pointed 3-light east and west windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds.

walls incorporate C12-C13 child's inscribed coffin lid and fragments of others.

Chancel: chamfered plinth, single pilaster buttresses to west, C14 buttresses with set-offs to east bay and angles.

C12 corbel table, mainly plain- moulded with some weathered heads.

Good C19 ceiled pine waggon roof to chancel with carved angel corbels.

Very fine C12 black Tournai marble font: square top with opposed pairs of carved animals to sides, standing on a cylindrical column with shafts to each corner on a square base.

TA0817 : Thornton Curtis, St. Lawrence's Church: Four winged beasts, east face of the c12th Tournai marble font

© Michael Garlick

Monuments in south aisle: grave slab of c1300 with recessed bust in rounded-trefoil surround

ornate marble wall tablet to William Skinner of 1626 with pilasters flanking bust in circular niche and broken pediment supporting arms and crest.

Restored C17 carved oak panelled pulpit.

Fine C17 oak altar table with bulbous legs.

C17 balustrade to tower gallery with turned balusters.