Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247329
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247329
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
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, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 40430 90649
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK49SW ST LAWRENCE ROAD, Tinsley
784-1/3/881 (East side)
28/06/73 Church of St Lawrence
GV II
Parish church. Dated 1879, with vestry and parish room 1925.
By GE Street. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and
plain tile roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, nave with north aisle, porches, vestries,
parish room.
EXTERIOR: plinth, sillband, string course, coped gables.
Pointed arch windows throughout.
Chancel east gable has diagonal buttresses, and 5-light window
with hoodmould. On either side, a 2-light window.
Lean-to south vestry has a 2-light window to south and east
and a doorway with hoodmould to west.
4 bay nave has corner stack and east gable topped with gabled
triple bellcote and weathercock. Buttressed west end has a
3-light window flanked by lower blank 2-light windows. South
side has low buttresses and three 3-light windows with linked
hoodmoulds. Between the right pair, a segmental pointed
doorway. To left of the south porch, 2 small lancets.
Buttressed north aisle has three 2-light windows and in the
west end, a moulded doorway with gable and flanking
buttresses. Above it, a quatrefoil window.
Gabled south porch has doorway with crocketed hoodmould.
Interior has arch braced roof and moulded doorway. Flat roofed
north porch has parapet and angled moulded doorway flanked by
single lancets. To north, 2 similar lancets.
Gabled parish room has two 4-light chamfered mullioned windows
in the north gable and a similar 3-light window to west. North
east organ chamber has a 2-light window to east.
INTERIOR has moulded chancel arch with hoodmould. Chancel has
to north a segmental arch with Decorated style screen to organ
chamber and to east, a C20 stained glass window. East end has
a Decorated style wooden reredos, 1896, and late C19 stained
glass window. South side has a C20 stained glass window and to
west a single sedilia and a doorway. Arch braced common rafter
roof.
Nave has 4 bay north arcade with coved octagonal central pier,
the other piers being clustered. All have moulded imposts.
Double purlin principal rafter roof with wind braces and ogee
arch braces. West end has a stained glass window, 1893.
North aisle has lean-to roof. North-east window altered to
form serving hatch. East end has a chamfered pointed recess
with doorway to left and opening to organ chamber to right.
Above it, a round window.
FITTINGS include a half-round traceried ashlar pulpit and
shaped ended stalls and plain benches, C19. Brass eagle
lectern, 1925. Traceried panelled octagonal font, C19, with
very large spired oak cover. Font cover and 8 cruciform spired
pendant lights by GG Pace, c1955. Late C18 parish chest and
communion table. Memorials include marble and alabaster war
memorial tablet, C20, and brass, 1715.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 458).
Listing NGR: SK4043090649
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 458
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27989
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/204382
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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