Description

TL 11 NE AYOT ST LAWRENCE (west side)

1/3 New Saint Lawrence Church
(Formerly listed as
Church of St Lawrence)
24.1.67

- I

Church. 1778 by Nicholas Revett for Sir Lyonel Lyde. Grecian
Revival. Painted stucco on red brick. Portland stone stylobate
and dressings. Tetrastyle Doric order temple front, linked to
small square open-pedimented pavilions by screens with 2-column
openings. Large and small columns with revealed fluting at tops
and bottoms of shafts. Square coffered portico ceiling and large
door surround with pilasters in antis enclosing smaller surround
and 8-panel double doors. Greek-cross plan interior with
continuous pilasters below windows, breaking to Ionic screen at W
vestibule. 9-panel coffered nave ceiling. E end has coffered
semidome and square recesses. Original organ in S transept.
Font in portico and funerary urns in pavilions. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1917116895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• New Saint Lawrence Church at Wikipedia
• New Saint Lawrence Church official website
• Wikidata Q17529173

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)