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Latitude: 54.0714 / 54°4'17"N
Longitude: -2.8684 / 2°52'6"W
OS Eastings: 343272
OS Northings: 464290
OS Grid: SD432642
Mapcode National: GBR 8PDC.T8
Mapcode Global: WH83Z.XX8N
Plus Code: 9C6V34CJ+HM
Entry Name: Church of St Lawrence
Listing Date: 6 April 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292956
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391814
ID on this website: 101292956
Location: Morecambe, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA4
County: Lancashire
District: Lancaster
Civil Parish: Morecambe
Built-Up Area: Morecambe
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Poulton-le-Sands Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
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
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