Church of St. Laurence
Church of St Laurence, Upton Court Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1251379
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Laurence, Upton Court Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1251379
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Laurence, Upton Court 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 Laurence, Upton Court Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Slough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 98074 79094
Details
SU 97 NE
4/10
SLOUGH
Upton Court Road (south side)
Church of St. Laurence
29.9.50
GV
I
Church. Early C12 tower, rest of late C12, restoration and additions of south aisle and vestry in 1850-1 by Benjamin Ferrey, tower altered in 1906; and vestry added in 1910. Uncoursed rubblestone and pudding stone (Ferricrete) with Chalk and Bath stone ashlar dressings. Old tile roofs, separately over nave and aisle, and timber bellcote at east end of aisle with hipped roof and cross. Nave, south aisle, central tower, chancel and south vestry.
Tower: two stages with cornice and coped parapet to low pyramidal cap with weathervane. Small rectangular louvred bellstage openings to north and south, small rectangular first stage windows to north.
Nave: north side: four round arched windows and two-light C15 window to left; blocked round arched window between second and third windows from left and evidence of blocked or reset doorway beneath. Round arched doorway between third and fourth windows from left with chevron decoration, one order of shafts, nook shafts, and boarded door.
West front: two three-light windows with returned hoodmoulds, and round arched window in gable end above.
South aisle: south side: three round arched windows and two-light window to right with returned hoodmould. Round arched doorway between first and second windows from left with boarded door, three orders of shafts with cushion capitals, and heavy gabled stone surround with circular window in apex.
East end: two-light window with quadrefoil in plate tracery above.
West end: two lancets with circular window in gable end above.
Chancel: two bays with strip buttresses. Two round arched windows to north and south; two round arched east windows with blocked circular window above and round arched window in apex.
Vestry: four round arched windows to east and boarded door to south.
Interior: five bay C15 chamfered crown post nave roof; four bay C19 south aisle arcade with circular piers and pointed arches; round tower arches with scalloped imposts; two bay stone vaulted chancel with scalloped capitals and painted ribs.
Fittings include: C12 circular stone font with blind arcading; C19 octagonal stone font; coat of arms on south wall; reset C15 wooden archway at east end of south aisle with shafts, cusping and dogtooth ornament; C15 alabaster Trinity in south wall of tower.
Monuments include: early C16 brass of Knight with two wives, brass to E. Bulstrade and wife of 1599, and Grecian tablet of 1822 by J. Theakston to Sir William Hershel, the astronomer. George Fordham, the champion jockey who died in 1887 at the age of 50 having ridden 2,500 winners, is buried in the churchyard. This is reputed to be the church where Grey wrote his Elegy.
Listing NGR: SU9807179093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Maxwell, F, The History of Slough, (1973), 140-142
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960), 237
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 316-318
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 10 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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