Church of St Laurence
CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287430
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287430
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH WALK
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, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winslow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 76932 27653
Details
SP 7627 NE WINSLOW CHURCH WALK
7/151 Church of St. Laurence
19.8.59
GV II*
Parish church. C14 nave, aisles, tower and chancel, altered late C15 much restored 1884-9. Late C15 S. porch. N. chapel and vestry 1889. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roof to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles. W. tower of 3 stages has battlemented parapet 3-light cusped perpendicular openings to bell-chamber, moulded Decorated doorway and 2-light window above to west much restored. Nave has plain parapet,2 3-light late C15 cusped windows and small central quatrefoil window to clerestory. S. aisle has 4-light cusped Perpendicular windows flanking porch and in E. end wall, and 2-light Decorated windows to right and in W. wall, much restored. S. door has moulded 2-centred archway. Fine C15 porch with battlemented parapet, finials, buttresses and 4-centred arch on slender shafts to front with moulded spandrels and ogee canopied niche. Roof with moulded purlins, ridge and carved bosses. N. aisle has restored Perpendicular 3-light windows, small 2-light Decorated windows to left and, in W. wall, and small 2-centred arched doorway. Chancel has 5-light Perpendicular window to E. a 4-light Perpendicular and 2-light Decorated window to S. and small Perpendicular doorway, all restored. Interior: tower has 2-centred double chamfered arches on semi-octagonal responds to nave and aisles. Nave has 4-bay arcade of similar arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps. Similar arch to chancel. S. chapel has piscina with 2 ogee cusped arches on corner of window reveal. N. aisle has fragments of C15 wall paintings of St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Christopher. Aisle roofs partly original. Chancel has decorated cinquefoil piscina with carved spandrels, restored sedilia and aumbry, and C19 wall paintings. Altered C17 pulpit. Late C19-C20 glass. Other fittings c.1900 Small brasses to Thomas Figge 1578 and Dorothy Barnard 1634. RCHM II 339-341
Listing NGR: SP7692927651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402444
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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