THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185491
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:: THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address:: THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

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Date:: 2004-11-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185491
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address 1:: THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

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.

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

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:: THE REMAINS OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: King's Newnham
National Grid Reference:: SP 44811 77220

Details

KINGS NEWNHAM SP47NW 2/28 The remains of the Church of 06/10/60 St. Laurence (Formerly listed as The remains of Church of St. Laurence)

GV II

Shown on Ordnance Survey map as Church (remains of). Church tower and fragment of nave north wall. Late C12 origins; upper stages rebuilt, possibly in C16. Later alterations. Squared coursed limestone with red sandstone dressings. First stage has some brick patching. Old tile pyramid roof. 4 stages, with splay between each stage. North side has slit window to second stage. East side has round arch, partly of yellow brick. Nave roofline is clearly visible. Third and fourth stages have irregular quoins. Third stage has tall, narrow, chamfered 2-light mullioned window to each side, with mullion removed to east. Fourth stage has 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window to each side. Fragment of nave wall, of sandstone ashlar, is approximately 5 metres long and 1 metre high. The remainder of the church was demolished in 1797. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, p.194; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.328).

Listing NGR: SP4481177220

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Legacy System number:: 308814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 194
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 328

Legal

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