St Lawrence Church, Lechlade
The Anglican St Lawrence Church, dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, is the Church of England parish church of Lechlade in Gloucestershire, England. The church building is Grade I listed and is described with admiration in Simon Jenkins's England's Thousand Best Churches.Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Church of St Lawrence”, “St Lawrence”, and “St Lawrence’s Church, Lechlade”
- Postal code: GL7 3AB
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Halfpenny Bridge and St John’s Lock.
Halfpenny Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halfpenny Bridge is a bridge across the River Thames, at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England. The bridge and its toll house are a Grade II listed building. Halfpenny Bridge is situated 760 feet southwest of St Lawrence Church, Lechlade.
St John’s Lock
Lock
Photo: Bencherlite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St John's Lock, below the town of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, is the furthest upstream lock on the River Thames in England. The name of the lock derives from a priory that was established nearby in 1250, but which no longer exists. St John’s Lock is situated 2,800 feet southeast of St Lawrence Church, Lechlade.
St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist Church in Inglesham, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has Anglo-Saxon origins but most of the current structure was built around 1205. St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham is situated 1 mile southwest of St Lawrence Church, Lechlade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lechlade and Little Faringdon.
Lechlade
Town
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lechlade is a town at the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England, 55 miles south of Birmingham and 68 miles west of London. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable, although there is a right of navigation that continues south-west into Cricklade, in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.
Little Faringdon
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Faringdon is a village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, about 1 mile north of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. The 2001 Census recorded its population as 63.
Buscot
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buscot is an English village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 1.5 miles south-east of Lechlade. Buscot was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Two houses there contain notable collections of paintings. Buscot is situated 1½ miles southeast of St Lawrence Church, Lechlade.
St Lawrence Church, Lechlade
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Lechlade, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.69389° or 51° 41′ 38″ northLongitude
-1.69045° or 1° 41′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C3WM8V5+HROpenStreetMap ID
way 93427266OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17524729
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Japanese—“St Lawrence Church, Lechlade” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه سانت لورانس”
- Japanese: “セント・ローレンス教会”
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