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Summary

Church of St Lawrence

Monument Types

• ANGLICAN CHURCH (MED:C12,C13,C14/PM:C17,C19,C20, Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1100 AD to 1999 AD)

Protected Status

• Listed Building (I) 1083610: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

Associated Finds - None

Associated Events - None

Full description

St. Lawrence's church, Frodingham, Early English, 12th cent., Decorated, Perpendicular (Walshaw in Dudley 1931, ch. XIV; Pevsner 1964, 356). [1]

SCUNTHORPE CHURCH LANE SE 81 SE (north side) Frodingham 1/5 Church of St Lawrence
7/11/66 - I
Church. C12 - C14, upper stage of tower rebuilt C17, alterations to south aisle and chancel in 1841 and later C19, roofs replaced in 1913 when a new nave, north aisle and chancel were added on the north side by Sir Charles Nicholson. Coursed ironstone rubble and squared blocks with ashlar dressings; lead and slate roofs. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch and 2-bay chancel, 4-bay north nave with north aisle, 3-bay chancel and vestry on north side. C19 and 1913 work in Gothic Revival style. 2-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, west lancet with hood-mould, string-course and re-set C12 2-light pointed belfry openings with nook shafts and trefoiled heads, flanked by re-set parapet details. Nave: south aisle has 2 pairs of lancets between buttresses, single lancets at each end, and a plain parapet. South porch has C12 dogtooth moulded pointed-arch door with moulded capitals for nook shafts, stone- coped gable and slate roof, and an C18 inner doorway with round arch and moulded capitals. Original chancel has string-course and pointed priests' door, 3 lancets with cill band, and 3 stepped lancets at east end, all with hood-moulds. C20 sections have five 3-light clerestory windows to nave and chancel, 2 lancets on south side of chancel, and traceried pointed windows to north side of chancel, north aisle and east and west ends. Tower, early chancel, and C20 nave and chancel have battlemented parapets and low-pitched lead roofs. Interior: C14 south arcade with octagonal piers, plain moulded capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches. Late C12 north arcade with cylindrical piers, scalloped capitals, one with a carved corner head, and early C13 pointed arches with keeled and pellet mouldings. C12 narrow pointed tower arch, double-chamfered with responds. C13 double-chamfered chancel arch with triple-shafted responds and moulded capitals. C20 nave and chancel arcades have diagonally-set chamfered square piers with chamfered pointed arches dying into them. C20 arched triforium openings into the the earlier nave. Chapel has marble wall monuments to Healey family, including those by M Taylor, York (1834), Skelton, York (1839) and W Audby, Hull (1842), the latter 2 with carved coffins. C17 grave-slabs in the floor. Tower has 1775 wall tablet recording bequest of Thomas Williamson. C12 font on clustered shaft base with C17 carved wooden font cover. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 356; M E Armstrong (ed), An Industrial Island: A History of Scunthorpe, 1981, p 8, pl 9t).
Listing NGR: SE8910610846 [2]

'The earliest part of Frodingham church dates from the twelfth century and building continued throughout the next two or three hundred years. Religious houses, too, played an important part in the social and economic life of the area. Alvingham Priory owned land here (Frodingham) and Revesby Abbey had the right of appointing vicars to Frodingham Church from about 1400, when the original dedication to St Mary may have been changed to St Lawrence. ' [3]

Notes and opinions on the earliest architectural phases of St Lawrence. The tower window on the ground floor could be from the first half of the 12th century. Some ollitic limestone appears to be from the Cave Beds, which were exhausted by c. 1175. The dog-tooth ornament on the doorway may be 13th century Early English, rather than 12th century as described in the listing. The 'striped' walls could also indicate a late 13th century phase, associated with the accession of Edward I. [4]

3 images of the building and a description, compiled by Scunthorpe Borough Council c. 1980 :

'This is the Parish Church of Frodingham and until the consecration of St. Johns in 1891, was also the Parish Church of Scunthorpe. It is the oldest building in the town, but like a great many Churches has
been added to or rebuilt over the centuries. The south aisle was originally the nave of the Church, and the oldest parts of the buildings are the pillars on the north side of the old nave, which date from the
twelfth century. The steeple fell down in 1602 which "ruinated° the Church. The tower is substantially a seventeenth century rebuild. The Church was rebuilt in 1841 but retained the transitional north aisle arcade and the west tower windows and font. The late nineteenth century also saw many "improvements" in the chancel.

In 1913 the Church was enlarged with a grant of £5,000 being given by the second Lord St. Oswald out of a total cost of £6,000, to provide for the growing town and the old chancel became a chapel to the new chancel.' [5]

<1> Loughlin, N and Miller, KR, 1979, A Survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside, 237 (BOOK). SLS523.

<2> English Heritage/NMR, 2005, Listed building system data in MIDAS XML format, 166266 (COMPUTER DISK/TAPE). SLS2963.

<3> Anthony Armstrong, Edited by M. Elizabeth Armstrong, 1981, An Industrial Island, A History of Scunthorpe, 4-5 (BOOK). SLS2616.

<4> Martin Foreman, 2012, Email correspondence (CORRESPONDENCE). SLS4922.

<5> Scunthorpe Borough Council, c1980, Scunthorpe Borough Council - listed and unlisted buildings (PHOTOGRAPH - ALBUM). SLS6963.

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