St Laurence's Church, Kirby Misperton

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St Laurence's Church is the parish church of Kirby Misperton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There is believed to have been a church on the site in the 10th century, from which some reused stones survive. It appears to have been rebuilt in the Norman period, and the chancel arch from this period survived into the 19th century.

The oldest parts of the current building are the nave, south aisle, vestry and lower part of the tower, which are all 14th century. The porch and belfry were rebuilt in about 1838, then the chancel was rebuilt by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1875, who had been commissioned by George Body.

The church was grade II* listed in 1953. The church is built of sandstone with a stone flag roof, and consists of a nave, a south aisle, a south porch, a chancel and a vestry, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal offset buttresses, a two-light mullioned west window with a hood mould, paired bell openings, string courses, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and a wrought iron weathervane.

The aisle and porch also have embattled parapets. Inside, there is an octagonal font on a 19th-century pedestal. Incorporated in the stone work of the chancel...