Church of St Laurence, Stanwick

The Church of St Laurence is a Grade I listed building in the village of Stanwick in North Northamptonshire.

For example The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire[1] and Architectural Notices of the Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton.

Later a Perpendicular Chancel was substituted for the original structure, a few Decorated windows were inserted, and some reparation continued at intervals, until the parvise, the low roof, and the battlement completed the work.

In Richard Cumberland’s memoirs,[3] he writes “The Spire of Stanwick Church is esteemed one of the most beautiful models in that style of architecture in the kingdom; my father (Denison Cumberland) added a very handsome clock, and ornamented the Chancel with a railing, screen, and entablature upon three-quarter columns, with a singing gallery at the west end, and spared no expense to keep his Church not only in that neatness and decorum, which befits the house of prayer, but also in a perfect state of good and permanent repair.” The pulpit was presented by John Dolben, Bishop of Rochester, and once Rector of Stanwick in 1778.

The weathercock is 157 feet above ground, and was given to the church in 1882 by George Henson the then landlord of the Duke of Wellington inn.