Listed Building record MDR6047 - St Lawrence's Church, St Lawrence Road, North Wingfield
Type and Period (1)
- CHURCH (Medieval to 21st Century - 1100 AD? to 2050 AD)
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Full Description
St Lawrence's Church, St Lawrence Road, North Wingfield, originally a 12th century building.
'St. Lawrence's Church. The north transept has a Norman east window, chancel and north vestry are 14th century and the body of the church was embattled in the 15th century. The west tower is Perpendicular, also the aisle windows and the south porch, which has a pointed tunnel-vault with transverse arches. (c.f. Ault Hucknall). Font is 1662. South aisle was rebuilt in 1860, north aisle heavily restored 1872, and the clerestory windows are 1872.' (1)
'Of the church at North Winfield at the time of the Domesday Survey, nothing remains, unless it is the discarded font and an incised stone. Bacon's Liber Regis gives the dedication as St. Lawrence, but the foundation deed of the chantry [SK 46 SW 4] makes mention of the church as dedicated in honour of St. Helen. The early font and base is of one block of coarse gritstone.' (2)
'During the 19th century restorations to St. Lawrence's Church a leper's window and hagioscope were opened out to view. A font, believed to be Saxon, stands at the west end of the north aisle. On the north side of the chancel is a chapel, now called St. Mary's Vestry, long used as a parish school.' (3)
Illustrated description of monuments. Illustration of the c1200 open arch in the wall dividing the north aisle from the Lady Chapel, now the vestry and organ-chamber. (4)
There is a scratch-dial on the easternmost buttress of the south side of the chancel. (7)
A bell in St Lawrence's is of historical significance. The bell dates to circa 1450 and was made by a London foundary. (9)
From the National Heritage List for England:
'SK 46 SW; 4/21
PARISH OF NORTH WINGFIELD,
ST LAWRENCE ROAD (West Side)
Church of St Lawrence
31.01.67
GV
I
Church. C12, C14, C15 and C19. Coursed squared sandstone and sandstone ashlar. Copper roofs. West tower, nave with aisles and south porch, chancel, north transept and vestry.
C15 west tower of four stages, divided by string courses. Angle buttresses. West door and 3-light window above. Clock face to north and south and pairs of 2-light bell-openings to each face. Frieze of shields and tracery motifs,and battlements. Embattled nave, chancel and aisles with 2- and 3-light windows to north and south sides under flat arches, the nave windows with cusping. East window with reticulated tracery. Vestry window C14 with an unusual tracery pattern of encircled trefoils. Gabled south porch with a broad ogee-arched doorway and gableted pinnacles with niches. Pointed tunnel vault with transverse arches. Studded oak plank door. The south aisle was rebuilt in 1860, the north aisle and the clerestory restored in 1872 by S Rollinson and there was a general restoration by R H Carpenter & Ingelow in 1878-80. Set in the south wall of the chancel, a C14 effigy of a knight within an ogee-arched recess.
INTERIOR: four-bay arcades with two circular piers and semi-octagonal responds. Plainly moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches. The western bay is a C15 addition with semi-octagonal responds and crude capitals with shields upside down. The tower arch with two concave chamfers has similar shields set correctly. Double-chamfered chancel arch. C12 window between the north transept and the vestry, large, with nailhead around the arch and up the jambs and curious elongated volutes to the capitals. Font at the east end of the south aisle, Norman, large and circular with fluting to the lower parts. Font at the west end of the south aisle, octagonal with curved sides, dated 1662. In the south porch a slab with foliated cross. Three C14 reliefs. At the east end of the south aisle the Martyrdom of St Lawrence under a cusped broad ogee arch. In the vestry north wall, the Annunciation under a crocketed and cusped ogee arch, and in the east wall, Christ and the Virgin in Majesty with Angels, a tripartite composition with cusped and crocketed ogee arches. Tomb recess on the north side of the chancel with a C13 effigy of a knight. By the south door, a monument to John and Mary Brailsford, 1714, with three composite columns on brackets and a pediment. Wall memorial on the south wall of the vestry to Thomas Holland 1776 with draped urn and weeping putto. Other C18 and early C19 wall tablets, including one to Rev Edward Lowe by J.Hadfield. Nave roof with C15 moulded tie beams. Early C20 rood screen with the C15 rood stair. Stained glass in the east window, 1879, by Clayton & Bell. Many other windows with C19 stained glass.
Listing NGR: SK4046164462.'
(10)
Sources/Archives (10)
- <1> SDR190 Bibliographic reference: Pevsner, N. 1953. The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, 1st edition. 194-195.
- <2> SDR11673 Bibliographic reference: Cox, J. 1875. Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. I. 422, 43.
- <3> SDR3507 Bibliographic reference: Bulmer, T and Co.. 1895. History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire. 94.
- <4> SDR7898 Article in serial: Stevenson, W. 1918. 'Some notes on North Wingfield Church', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal. Vol. 40, pp 193-201.
- <5> SDR6473 Personal Observation: F1 WW 01-DEC-59.
- <6> SDR6613 Personal Observation: F2 JB 09-JUN-66.
- <7> SDR6704 Article in serial: Fisher, F. 1935. 'Derbyshire Scratch Dials', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal. Volume 56, pp 31-43.
- <8> SDR11037 Index: NDAT. 1604. 1604.
- <9> SDR23468 Unpublished document: Church of England. 2007. Identification of bells and bell frames of historic significance.
- <10> SDR19551 Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335463?section=official-list-entry.
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Location
| Grid reference | SK 40461 64462 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORTH WINGFIELD, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE |
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- EDR701
- EDR926
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Record last edited
May 19 2026 12:05PM