Parish Church of St Laurence
Parish Church of St Laurence, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173566
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Laurence, Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173566
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Laurence, Church Lane
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Laurence, Church Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35520 05865
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details, update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 30NE
3/18
HODDESDON
Wormley
CHURCH LANE (south west side)
Parish Church of St Laurence
(Formerly listed as Church of Saint Laurence under Wormley)
13.4.61
II*
C12 nave with Norman door and window and C15 windows. Restored chancel, 1843-4. South aisle and porch added 1862 by J Clarke. Roughcast, stone dressings, flint and stone dressings on south. Machine tile roof. Norman door has two roll-moulded arches and scalloped capitals. C15 windows have cusped arches and hood moulds. Lancet windows to chancel, triplet on east end. Nave interior with stilted arches on paired columns and C15 tie beam. Saxon or early Norman circular font with frieze of upright leaves, and cable mouldings forming panels. Jacobean hexagonal oak pulpit with term figures. Choir has 1617 wall monument to William Purvey on south side, in alabaster with carved angels and putti. Painting ascribed to Palma vecchio presented 1797 on east wall. Modern weatherboarded bell-cote on west end. (Pevsner (1977) ).
Listing NGR: TL3552305866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157396
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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