Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE THE MARTYR (2.1.156)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 391751
Date assigned 21 March 1994
Date last amended

Description

Parish church. Dated 1909. Random squared stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with gutters on brackets. Free Gothic style. Nave and chancel, transepts, west porch, south west tower. Chancel has blank sides, and plain graduated triple lancet to east. North transept has 2 single lancets to north, with hoodmoulds, and to west, a blocked arch. South transept has a 4-light flat-headed mullioned window with label mould, and a single smaller window to right. Nave has on either side 2 single lancets flanked by single segmental pointed-arch 3-light windows and beyond, single lancets. South side has, to east, a pointed arched door with flat-headed surround. West end has a graduated triple lancet. Below it, a lean-to porch with a coped gable. Moulded segment-arched double door with to left a 3-light mullioned window with 3 square openings below it. Right return has a single lancet. Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has chamfered north-east corner, impost band, parapet with moulded stepped coping, and corner stack. Pointed-arched double door with hoodmould, and above, a single lancet with label mould. Bell stage has a flat-headed louvred double opening on each side. Parapet has recessed panel with cross, on each side. INTERIOR: nave has principal rafter roof with tie beams, and strutted kingposts under the purlins. Round-arched plaster ceiling above the purlin. Narrower chancel has similar round arch with wooden ribs. Nave has painted brick walls. North side has stained glass window, 1952. South side has pointed doorway to east. At west end, triple lancet above and below, central round-arched opening to baptistry, with inscribed moulded war memorial panels on either side and a stained-glass memorial window and brasses, 1949. Beyond, on either side, segment-headed double doors. Chancel opening has plain ashlar piers, the south one with a pointed arched doorway. East end has stained-glass window, c1909. North side has recess containing organ. South side has chamfered pointed double aumbry and piscina. To west, a recess with wooden lintel and pointed arched door to vestry in transept. FITTINGS include octagonal eggcup font with moulded top, dated 1662. Panelled wooden pulpit, altar rail, stalls and desks with shaped ends, wooden eagle lectern and chairs, early and mid C20. (EH)

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Grid reference Centred SK 54993 61069 (36m by 18m)
Map sheet SK56SW
District Mansfield
Civil Parish Mansfield, Mansfield

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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