Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292956
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292956
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHAPEL STREET
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, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morecambe
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 43272 64290
Details
MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM
SD4364 CHAPEL STREET, Morecambe 939-1/5/33 Church of St Lawrence 06/04/79
II
Former parish church, now redundant. 1876-8 by Paley and Austin. Snecked sandstone rubble with red tile roofs. Decorated style. Comprises a tall nave and chancel with clerestoreys, north and south aisles, south porch, north porch intended as the base for a tower, south chapel, and north vestry. The west wall contains 2 windows of 3 lights with reticulated tracery. The gabled south porch has a moulded pointed doorway with a carved panel above. The 4 nave clerestorey windows are of 2 lights and the 2 chancel clerestorey windows are of 3 lights. All have Decorated tracery of various descriptions. The south chapel has paired gables, each with a 2-light window with flat head. The east window is of 5 lights and has flushwork panels below, of sandstone infilled with rubble. Interior: 4-bay nave arcades with octagonal piers, double-chamfered arches, a high moulded chancel arch, an arch to the north of the chancel and more richly moulded arches to the 2-bay south chapel. The nave and chancel with waggon roofs with braced tie beams. Furnishings removed. Pevsner considered this to be Paley and Austin's best church in Morecambe.
Listing NGR: SD4327264290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
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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