The tower is 157 feet (48 metres) high to the top of the pinnacles,[5] and commands expansive views of the town and surrounding countryside.

Notable features include an extensive set of misericords in the choir stalls as well as fine stained glass windows.

Original Norman traces were found beneath the south porch, indicating some extant foundations exist from the 11th century AD.

Approximately £850,000 of repairs and other work have been completed including urgent conservation, high level masonry, roofs, as well as new heating and lighting.

Phase 2 will include a new nave floor, kitchen, toilets, shop and other facilities as well as conservation to historic stained glass and timber.

[11] The chancel has a number of monuments, most of which mark the graves of people involved with Ludlow Castle's Council of Wales and the Marches.

[12] Sir John Bridgeman (1568/69 – 1638), a Chief Justice of The Marches in the 17th century is buried in St Laurence's church, within a tomb monument attributed to Francesco Fanelli.

The ashes of sculptor Adrian Jones are also buried in the church grounds, his memorial tablet is on the outside north wall near to that of Housman.

[14] St Laurence's Church has twenty eight misericords in the chancel which are of a quality usually associated with great cathedrals such as Worcester or Gloucester.

Eight have an unusual carvers mark in the form of an uprooted plant and a distinctive profile to the moulding running round the edge of the corbel.

The remainder were carved in matching style around 1447 which was when the Palmers Guild bought one hundred planks of oak from Bristol to construct the stalls.

Many show scenes of town life including a wrestling match where two pairs of wrestlers are stripped to the waist while a horse is tied up on one side and a wool sack and a purse hang on the other.

One complex carving shows a prosperous householder with tools of various trades in the centre while a seated woman holds a child on the left and a grave and burial implements are on the right.

[18] In the 19th century, Gray and Davison restored the organ and enlarged it, at the same time moving it to its present position in the north transept.

In 2006, thanks largely to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, further work was carried out to clean the instrument, improve the console, and to add a new mounted cornet.

More recent work has included new keyboards and toe sweep, as well as overhauling the blowing plant and gilding the facade pipes.