St Lawrence Church Bourton on the Hill Gloucester England UK
The church of ST. LAWRENCE, anciently called St. Mary's, consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, north and south aisles and porches, and west tower. It is of stone with a parapeted Cotswold stone roof. It was built by 1157, and the shafts and capitals of the south arcade are of the late 12th century. The arches may have been rebuilt later, and some work of about the same time is incorporated in the arch of the south door. In the 14th century a north aisle was added and the chancel rebuilt. The foreshortened arch at the eastern end of the south arcade suggests that the arcade has been shortened, possibly at the rebuilding of the chancel, which may have been enlarged at the expense of the nave which is only slightly longer. The diagonal buttresses of the chancel, the blocked south doorway, the three-light east window with reticulated tracery, and the piscina reset in the jamb of the south window are of the 14th century. The embattled tower was built in the 14th century, of three stages with angle buttresses and an internal stair vice which is carried up above the roof. The narrow west door of the tower and the two-light window above it are of a later date. The second stage of the tower has a narrow one-light window on three sides and the third stage has a two-light window on each side. (Source British History Online)
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Location: Bourton on the Hill Gloucester England UK
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