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St Laurence, Lurgashall, Sussex

Location
(51°2′14″N, 0°39′48″W)
Lurgashall
SU 938 273
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
  • Kathryn Morrison
10 April 1993, 17 September 2014

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Description

The tall, single-cell nave, entered on the S, has a blocked N doorway and incorporates some herringbone masonry. There is a tower on the S side, a modern N transept, and a long square-ended 13thc. chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found on a fragment reset inside the porch and on a fragment of a font.

History

Lurgashall is not mentioned in 1086.

Features

Interior Features

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The font in use in the church is dated 1661, and may have directly replaced the late 12thc. font, of which a fragment survives.

Bibliography

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 266 (no mention of fragments)