CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD

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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.

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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 Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/204382
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27989

Legal

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