St Lawrence's Church, Broughton

Coordinates: 52°03′08″N 0°41′52″W / 52.0522°N 0.6979°W / 52.0522; -0.6979
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St Lawrence's Church, Broughton
Style
Gothic

St Lawrence's Church is a

Anglican church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The church stands on the eastern periphery of Milton Keynes, between the A4146 and (former) A5130 roads.[3] It is listed at Grade I because of its "remarkable series" of medieval wall paintings.[1]

History

The church was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in the 19th century, when the chancel was rebuilt.[1] In 1849 a series of medieval wall paintings were discovered that had been covered in plaster for 300 years.[2] These were restored in the 1930s by Professor Tristram.[1] The church was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 1 August 1987.[4]

Architecture

Exterior

St Lawrence's is constructed in stone, and has lead roofs with plain

embattled parapet. On the south side of the church are three three-light windows. To the west of the porch is a 14th-century window with reticulated tracery, and to the east of the porch are two Perpendicular windows. On the north side of the church is a staircase to the rood loft.[1]

Interior

The wall paintings in the nave date from about 1400.

Saint Helena and Saint Eligius.[1][2] The pulpit dates from the late 17th or early 18th century. The memorials include a series of black marble stones under the altar, fragments of brasses from the 14th and 15th centuries, and a 17th-century wall monument. The stained glass in the east and south windows of the chancel by Kempe dates from 1894, and that in a south window in the nave dating from 1864 is by A. Gibbs.[1] There is a ring of four bells, but these are no longer ringable. The oldest two were cast in about 1470 by William Chamberlain; the others were cast in 1622 by James Keene, and in 1655 by Anthony Chandler.[5]

See also

  • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South East England

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Historic England, "Church of St Lawrence, Broughton (1332313)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 December 2013
  2. ^ a b c St Lawrence's Church, Broughton, Buckinghamshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 25 April 2011
  3. ^ Broughton, Streetmap, retrieved 25 April 2011
  4. ^ Diocese of Oxford: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 2, retrieved 25 April 2011
  5. ^ Milton Keynes, Broughton, S Lawrence, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 25 April 2011

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