Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076391
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076391
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, NEW STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 97695 96831
Details
WALSALL MB CHURCH STREET (west side) SO 99 NE Darlaston 6/28 Church of St Lawrence 16.11.76 GV II Church. 1871-2 by AP Brevitt. Red sandstone with some yellow sandstone dressings and tile roof. Comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, and lower chancel. The tower has diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed bell openings of two cusped lights, and pierced parapets with central clock faces and corner pinnacles. The stone spire has lucarnes of two trefoiled lights. Against the west side of the tower are single-storey C20 additions. The The aisles are of five bays separated by buttresses and have two tiers of 2-light windows, the upper ones with depressed 2-centred heads. The souun transept has a rose window above a pointed doorway with angle shafts. The east window is of four lights with plate tracery. Interior: five-bay nave arcades of pointed arches on cast iron columns with spiral decoration. West, north and south galleries have timber fronts with blank arcading. The nave roof has scissor-braced collar trusses. The chancel arch is pointed and has two shafts as responds, carried on angel corbels. An arch from the chancel to a north chapel is similar. The chancel roof has a truss with a king-post rising from an arch-braced collar. The aisles and chancel contain re-set early C19 wall tablets. A painted pulpit in a Gothic style has cast iron steps. The east window contains late C19 glass. (BoE, Staffs, p 296).
Listing NGR: SO9769596831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 296
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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