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Towcester Town Hall

Tour of St. Lawrence's Church, Towcester

The Church Tower


Image of West Tower   Image of weathervane  
West Tower Weathervane

The church has a 90 foot perpendicular west tower, which was rebuilt or added to in 1480-85 using brown ironstone. The tower is built in five stories marked by diminishing stages of angle buttresses. It has an embattled parapet. In the 1900's Sidney Hall, a local inhabitant and jeweller, was suspended by ropes in a chair while he gilded the church clock dial [Melville & Co's Directory of Northamptonshire, 1861 page 99]. Above the west door is a three light rectilinear window and the belfry windows are each of two lights. The tower roof was restored in 1955-56 and is covered with lead. There are currently twelve bells in the belfry. [more about the bells]



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This page is from the Towcester and District Local History Society website.
Acknowledgements and a full list of sources and references can be found [here].
The section was last updated on 4th May 2007

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