- St Lawrence's Church, Morecambe
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St Lawrence's Church, Morecambe Location in Lancashire
St Lawrence's Church, MorecambeCoordinates: 54°04′17″N 2°52′06″W / 54.0713°N 2.8684°W OS grid reference SD 433 641 Location Morecambe, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Architecture Functional status Redundant Heritage designation Grade II Designated 6 April 1979 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1876 Completed 1878 Specifications Materials Sandstone, tile roofs St Lawrence's Church, Morecambe, stands at the corner of Chapel Street and Edward Street in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant church, formerly an Anglican parish church. Its benefice has been united with that of Holy Trinity, Morecambe.[1] The former church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built between 1876 and 1878, and was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin.[3] It was declared redundant on 1 July 1981, and on 16 February 2011 a deed was granted for its conversion for office or shopping use.[4]
Architecture
St Lawrence's is constructed in sandstone rubble, and has red tile roofs. Its architectural style is Decorated. The plan consists of a nave and chancel, both with clerestories, north and south aisles, a south porch, a north porch that was intended to be the base for a tower that was never built, a south chapel, and a north vestry. The west front contains two three-light windows containing reticulated tracery. Along both sides, the four clerestory windows of the nave have two lights, and the two clerestory windows of the chancel have three lights. The chapel has two gables, each of which contains a flat-headed two-light window. The east window has five lights, beneath which are flushwork panels of sandstone infilled with rubble. Inside the church are four-bay arcades carried on octagonal piers. Both the nave and chancel have waggon roofs. The internal furnishings have been removed.[2]
Appraisal
The church was designated as a Grade II listed building on 6 April 1979. Grade II is the lowest of the three gradings given by English Heritage, and is granted to buildings that "are nationally important and of special interest".[5] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considers that this was the best church in Morecambe to have been designed by Paley and Austin.[2][3]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ Church Details: Poulton-le-Sands Holy Trinity with Morecambe St Laurence, Diocese of Blackburn, http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/parish.asp?theid=99703, retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ a b c Church of St Lawrence, Morecambe (1292956). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 458, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Blackburn: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2010, p. 4, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810334/blackburn%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ Listed buildings, English Heritage, http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/, retrieved 30 August 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1878
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Former churches in England
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