---
title: "St Lawrence, Stretton Grandison"
description: "Located in Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire. Built C14 rebuilding of a C12 church; C17 porch; mid-C19 vestry. Diocese of Hereford. Grade I. Decorated style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Herefordshire","Stretton Grandison","Grade I","Decorated"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-lawrence-stretton-grandison"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:49:57.810Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:59:19.473Z"
location: "Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire"
country: "England"
county: "Herefordshire"
town: "Stretton Grandison"
address: "Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire, HR8 2TS"
postcode: "HR8 2TS"
built: "C14 rebuilding of a C12 church; C17 porch; mid-C19 vestry"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Lawrence"]
diocese: "Hereford"
grade: "I"
style: "Decorated"
materials: "Coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roofs"
openingHours: "Our church is always open."
parish: "Stretton Grandison with Ashperton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1157113"
gridReference: "SO 632 440"
accessNotes: "Ramp or level access available on request. Non-accessible toilets in church"
---

# St Lawrence, Stretton Grandison

St Lawrence’s is a Grade I parish church in the hamlet of Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire, on the A417 north-east of Hereford, in the Diocese of Hereford.

## Overview

Historic England records a fourteenth-century rebuilding of an earlier twelfth-century structure, a seventeenth-century porch, and a mid-nineteenth-century restoration that added a north vestry. The fabric is coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs: a three-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet and octagonal spire; a three-bay nave with south porch; and a two-bay chancel. The Royal Commission noted a reset doorway and perhaps the north-east angle of the chancel as twelfth-century, the chancel rebuilt early in the fourteenth century, and nave and tower about the mid century.

The interior has a fifteenth-century trussed-rafter roof, a blocked rood-loft doorway, and a chancel arch of two chamfered orders. Fittings include a restored fourteenth-century hexagonal font and a fifteenth-century four-sided traceried pulpit. Monuments include the Hopton tablet of 1668 (Edward Hopton and Deborah Hatton) and the Taylor tablet of 1676. A fragment of wall painting of St Christopher survives above the south door.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1157113](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1157113)
- [RCHME Herefordshire: Stretton Grandison](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol2/pp174-176)