St. Lawrence Parish Church

St Lawrence Parish Church, York
St Lawrence viewed from Lawrence Street
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
Website	stlawrenceparishchurch.org.uk
History
Dedication	St Lawrence
Consecrated	Churchyard 12th-Century or earlier – new building consecrated 1883
Architecture
Status	Grade II (with Grade I monuments in churchyard)
Administration
Parish	St Lawrence with St Nicholas, York
Deanery	York Deanery
Archdeaconry	Archdeaconry of York
Diocese	Diocese of York
Province	Province of York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	The Revd Jane Nattrass

Coordinates: 53°57′43″N 1°05′20″W / 53.962°N 1.089°W / 53.962; -1.089

St Lawrence Parish Church is an active Anglican church in York, England. It is situated in Lawrence Street, just outside Walmgate Bar.

It is dedicated to St Lawrence, possibly in deliberate reference to the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls, in Rome. The tower of the old church building remains in the churchyard – the doorway and lower half date to the 12th-century. This tower is now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. The oldest gravestones in the churchyard lie on the site of the demolished nave and chancel, and include tombs of the Heskeths and Yarburghs of Heslington Hall.

The parish was united with that of St Nicholas after that church was destroyed in the Siege of York. St Lawrence was also severely damaged, but was rebuilt at the Restoration, and silver and furniture from c.1669 remain.Sir John Vanbrugh married Henrietta Maria Yarburgh here on a snowy day in 1719. The churchyard contains the 1830 Rigg Memorial – built by public subscription for six children who died in a boating accident, with an epitaph by James Montgomery – and the 1820 'medicine pot' memorial to Dr Oswald Allen (who ran the York Dispensary charity) and his wife. These monuments, together with the tower, are Grade I listed.