Parish Church of St Laurence

Parish Church of St Laurence, High Street, Olney, MK46 5JP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1115832
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Laurence
Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Laurence, High Street, Olney, MK46 5JP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1115832
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Laurence
Statutory Address 1:: Parish Church of St Laurence, High Street, Olney, MK46 5JP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Laurence, High Street, Olney, MK46 5JP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston Underwood
National Grid Reference:: SP 86363 50366

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/07/2019

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WESTON UNDERWOOD HIGH STREET (south east side) Parish Church of St Laurence

(Formerly listed as Parish Church of St Lawrence)

17.11.66

I Parish church. C12 nave, mid C13 aisles and west bays of nave, c1380 chancel, c1400 nave arcade east bays and clerestory, mid C15 porch and west tower. Stone rubble with stone dressings. Slate roofs to nave and chancel, lead to aisles, porch old clay tiles. Two bay chancel, four bay aisled nave, west tower and north porch.

Chancel east window of three-lights with elaborate tracery and moulded label. Two north and south windows each of two-lights with quatrefoils. Nave aisles have towards each end flat headed three-light windows with trefoiled ogee lights and tracery. On south side between these is C13 doorway with chamfered jambs and label with grotesque head stops. North door C14 with moulded jambs and plain label. Porch outer entrance has moulded jambs and label, in each side wall a single trefoiled light.

Clerestory has on each side three windows, each of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil and plain label. West tower of two stages, lower stage has diagonal west buttresses and west door of two chamfered orders and two-light window above. Two-light belfry windows of two cinquefoiled lights and tracery. Battlemented parapet and C18 ogee leaded cupola with wrought iron weather vane.

Interior: chancel has aumbry to north and piscina to south with cinquefoil head and octofoil basin. Chancel arch of c1330 of two chamfered orders, triple shafts and moulded caps and bases. Rood stair entry to left in nave. Nave arcade of two chamfered orders with octagonal or circular moulded caps. Aisle roofs have some old principals with curved wall brackets, other ceilings flat.

Octagonal font C15 on base with traceried panels in each of which is shield. C17 font cover, communion table and communion rails, the last with twisted balusters. Brasses. John Olney, c1400, on north aisle wall, marginal inscriptions with evangelist symbols to corners and shield within. South aisle wall brass effigies to Elizabeth wife of Sir Walter Hungerford and secondly of Sir Roger Throckmorton, and her five daughters. She died in 1571. On south aisle east wall Throckmorton family monument, C17. Panelled Corinthian pilasters, broken entablature and scroll pediment with central cartouche of arms, standing on base mould with curved scroll brackets under pilasters and fringed drapery and cherub's head between.

East window has c1300 stained glass. Three upper lights have censing angels flanking Christ, and six light below have a bishop and five Apostles. Medieval glass also in upper lights of two chancel north windows and west window of south side.

Listing NGR: SP8636350365

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.