Description

MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE CHURCH LANE
NZ 31 SW (North side)
Middleton One Row

8/54 Church of
St. Lawrence

II

Parish church. 1871 by J.P. Pritchett; early C20 combined Vicar's and Choir
vestry. Squared rock-faced sandstone in narrow courses with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roofs. Aisleless nave with porch on south, original vestry (now
kitchen) on north and choir/vicar's vestry added on west end; tower with spire
in south-east angle between nave and chancel; chancel with organ chamber on
north. Geometrical-style tracery.

Tower of 3 stages: angle-buttressed lower stage with trefoil-headed lancets
and pointed east doorway; short second stage with cut-back corners; octagonal
belfry with trefoil-headed bell openings under hoodmoulds; tall octagonal
stone spire. Nave: angle-buttressed west end with large sexfoil window and
truncated stack; 4-bay south side has chamfered plinth, sill string, 2-light
windows under hoodmoulds with headstops and roll-moulded pointed doorway, with
red sandstone colonnettes, inside gabled porch with similar doorway and
trefoiled lancets on returns. Blocked 4-bay arcade of pointed arches with
inserted 2-light windows on north side (a north aisle was intended but never
built). Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel: similar details and large 3-light
pointed east window. Very steeply-pitched roofs with coped gables. North
vestry has pointed north doorway and pent roof. Organ chamber similar.
Flat-roofed 4-bay choir/vicar's vestry has lancets and pointed doorway on
south.

Plain and plastered interior: tall pointed chancel arch, outer order chamfered,
inner order with 3 roll mouldings on squat responds. 1957 stained glass
window by L.C. Evetts in north wall in memory of Rev. P.W. Francis. 4 arch-
braced scissor trusses in nave roof; panelled barrel roof in chancel.

Listing NGR: NZ3484912391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481217

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version