Description

FARNHAM
ST 91 NE -

2/12 Church of St Lawrence
14.7.55
GV II*

Parish church. Nave probably C12 origin, south tower late C15 or early C16,
north aisle 1835 and chancel and north vestry 1886. Ashlar, banded ashlar and
flint, snecked rubble and render. Tiled roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave,
chancel, north aisle and vestry, south tower incorporating porch. C16 buttresses
to south nave wall and C12 buttress to west nave wall. South tower: embattled
with corner obelisks; of 2 stages separated by weathered strings; diagonal
buttresses to the first stage; 4-centred, moulded south doorway with studded
plank door; 2 light be fry windows with central mullions bisecting a 4-centred
head. The nave retains 2 medieval windows with pointed heads but these have
been altered and the tracery removed. Chancel windows are C19, of 2 and 3
lights, with idiosyncratic curvilinear tracery and returned labels. The north
aisle windows are pointed and untraceried.

Inside the west and south nave walls have a pronounced offset probably marking
the wall plate level of the original church. C19 pointed, moulded chancel arch
with the inner order springing from corbels. Nave and aisle have plastered
barrel roofs. Chancel has a C19 2 bay arch-braced collar roof with the
principals springing from corbels. Aisle has 2 iron columns with moulded
capitals rather than an arcade. West wall has 2 black letter inscriptions
dated 1733. Late medieval 12-sided font with sides continuing as chamfers on
the stem and dying into a hollow-chamfered square base. Another font in porch
has gadrooned bowl and stem, moulded base and gadrooned stone cover and is
probably late C17 or early C18. Early C18 polygonal pulpit with 2 heights of
fielded panelling and gadrooned cornice and base. C20 glass. Various C17,
C18 and C19 monuments. Other fittings largely C19. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV,
p.17/18, no.1. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset,
1972, p.202/3.)

Listing NGR: ST9578315050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539845

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey