St Lawrence Church, Winchester

51.0625°N 1.3149°W / 51.0625; -1.3149

St Lawrence Church, Winchester
St Lawrence Church, Winchester
St Lawrence Church, Winchester
OS grid reference	SU 48105 29464
Location	Winchester
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	www.threesaints.org.uk/st-lawrence
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II listed
Administration
Province	Province of Canterbury
Diocese	Diocese of Winchester
Archdeaconry	Winchester
Deanery	Winchester
Benefice	Winchester Saint Bartholomew and Saint Lawrence with Saint Swithun-upon-Kingsgate[1]
Parish	Winchester Saint Lawrence with Saint Swithun-upon-Kingsgate[1]
Clergy
Rector	Rev'd Karen Kousseff
Assistant priest(s)	Rev'd Amanda Goulding
Curate(s)	Rev'd Ellie Phipps

St Lawrence Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Winchester.

History

The church is just off the High Street, in Winchester, England. It is probably of Norman origin, and is said to have been the chapel of William the Conqueror's palace (built 1069–70, destroyed 1141) with a tower added in the 15th century. The church is now almost wholly surrounded by adjacent buildings. It is recorded as being restored in 1475–7, in 1672 (the present roof dates from this restoration), 1847–8, 1881, and 1979–80.

St Lawrence Church is a Grade II listed building.[2]

Organ

The church contains a two manual pipe organ dating from 1882 by Jones and Son of Fulham[3] which was almost completely replaced by George Osmond in 1966. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.[4]

Rectors

The parish of St Lawrence was combined in 1904 with the parish of St Maurice (church demolished in 1957) and in 1973 with the parish of St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate whose church is now a chapel of ease in the parish of St Lawrence with St Swithun, which is in a united benefice with the parish of St Bartholomew, Hyde since 2010.

• 1305 John. Licensed by Bishop Woodstock
• ???? Richard Erdysleigh (resigned 1387)
• 1387 Robert Pauntone or Pannytone
• 1402 John Barbour of Milton Keynes
• ???? Thomas Kyrkby (resigned 1532)
• 1532 John Whitehart
• 1541 William Woodstock
• 1703 John Price
• 1733 Phillip Tennant
• 1738 Samuel Chadwick
• 1740 Robert Webber
• 1742 Reginald Cotton
• 1768 John Monk Newbolt
• 1779 George Isaac Huntingford
• 1788 Henry Gibson Gabell
• 1818 John Williams
• 1831 Charles Pilkington
• 1837 Frederick Wickham
• 1840 Elborough Woodcock
• 1860 William Gindott Sealy
• 1868 Charles Wickham
• 1872 Henry Manning Richards
• 1895 William Maitland Clark
• 1904 Alfred Cecil Dicker
• 1906 Walter Edmund Colchester
• 1923 Charles Fanshawe
• 1925 Sidney Montague Watson
• 1947 Charles Oswald Rockett
• 1950 Bernard Cunningham Corfield
• 1963 Arthur James Moody
• 1973 Trevor Gifford Nash
• 1983 Michael John Benton
• 1991 David Victor Scott
• 2010 Clifford J Bannister
• 2021 Karen E Kousseff

References

• Pevsner, N. Hampshire: Winchester & the North (2010) ISBN 978-0-300-12084-4 (with Michael Bullen, John Crook and Rodney Hubbuck) (Buildings of England series)
• Church of St Lawrence, Winchester in British Listed Buildings

1. "St Lawrence, Winchester". A Church Near You. The Church of England. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
2. Historic England. "Church of St Lawrence (1295959)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
3. "Re-opening of St Lawrence Church". Hampshire Chronicle. British Newspaper Archive. 11 March 1882. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "NPOR [D01972]". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies.