St Lawrence, Snarford
St Lawrence, Snarford
St Lawrence (listed as St Laurence) is a Grade I redundant medieval church on Church Lane, Snarford, Lincolnshire, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
- Location
- Snarford, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Snarford
- Address
- Snarford, Lincolnshire, LN8 3SL
- Postcode
- LN8 3SL
- Built
- C12 tower; C14-C16 body; C19 restoration
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Lawrence
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval Gothic with Norman tower
- Materials
- Coursed limestone rubble with plain tiled and slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TF 051 825
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of the twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with nineteenth-century restoration, of coursed limestone rubble with plain tiled and slate roofs: a western tower, nave, chancel and north chapel. The twelfth-century tower is of one stage, with a plinth, string course and a hipped slate roof. A fifteenth-century west window has a hood mould. The nave and chapel have fifteenth-century two-light windows with ogee-headed lights, panel tracery and human-head label stops.
The interior is known for Elizabethan and Jacobean monuments to the St Paul (St Pol) family. A large tomb commemorates Sir George St Pol (d.1613) and his wife: reclining figures on a base with composite pillars, a niche with their daughter, mourning putti, and Frances in mourning dress holding a prayer book, all within a semi-circular recess. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture notes four round-headed or segmental arches inside the tower, one reset with Romanesque sculpture on the east wall. The church was declared redundant in 1995. It stands north of the A46 between Lincoln and Market Rasen, beside the site of a deserted medieval village.