St Lawrence

Late C15 west tower with plinth, 2 richly moulded lower string courses and 3 stage diagonal buttresses.

Moulded eaves with large projecting corner gargoyles.

Mid-late C15 north aisle with plinth, moulded string course and regularly placed 2 stage buttresses.

North side with C17 porch to west with coped gabled pantile roof with kneelers, doorway with shallow pointed head and raised keystone.

C15 inner doorway with four centred moulded head, moulded jambs, plank door and hood mould.

Brick chancel of c.1434.

Mid-late C15 south aisle with moulded plinth and string course.

Tall, pointed, double chamfered late C15 interior tower arch, the inner order supported on polygonal responds with moulded polygonal capitals and broached plinths.

Tall, 5 bay late C15 north and south arcades with double chamfered, pointed heads, octagonal piers, moulded octagonal capitals and tall broached plinths.

Tall late C15 chancel arch with pointed double chamfered head, polygonal responds, moulded polygonal capitals and broached plinths.

C19 tie beam roofs, with some crenellated decoration and rosettes, re-using C15 timbers.

C15 pointed piscina in south wall of chancel with double rolled head and small basin.

C14 standing figure with C20 head, originally from Bardney Abbey.

Large incised slab to Abbot Richard Horncastle, died 1508, with shield and inscription, with canopy above with crocketed pinnacles.

The incised slab of Abbot Richard Horncastle in St Lawrence, Bardney. Abbot Horncastle was abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bardney from 1466 to 1507. He died in 1508 and was buried in the abbey church. His incised slab was discovered in the abbey ruins when they were excavated just prior to the First World War. The slab shows Horncastle under canopy dressed in eucharistic vestments and holding the Sacred Heart. Above his head his naked soul is shown being lifted up to heaven in a napkin.

© Brian Deegan

3 C17 and early C18 painted wooden panels recording charitable gifts of John and Joseph Knowles, William Hurltcroft, Thomas Kitching, John Burrington, William Norman and John Lightfoot, amongst others, including several portraits of donors.

C20 font with quatrefoiled panels.

C19 polygonal pulpit.

Several architectural fragments from Bardney Abbey, including 2 sections of C13 rib vault with 3 rolls re-used as piscinas in C20.

Fragment of C13 crossing of moulded rib vault.