St Lawrence's Church, Barton

St Lawrence's Church, Barton
St Lawrence's Church, Barton, from the north
St Lawrence's Church, Barton Location in the City of Preston
Coordinates: 53°49′44″N 2°44′10″W / 53.8289°N 2.7360°W / 53.8289; -2.7360
OS grid reference	SD 517 372
Location	Garstang Road, Barton, Preston, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Lawrence, Barton
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	13 January 1986
Architect(s)	R. Knill Freeman
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival (Decorated)
Groundbreaking	1895
Completed	1896
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof
Administration
Parish	St Lawrence, Barton
Deanery	Garstang
Archdeaconry	Lancaster
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Revd Steve Cooper
Laity
Reader(s)	Delphine Burn, Dianne Maguire

St Lawrence's Church is in Garstang Road, Barton, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn. The church was built in 1895–96, and was designed by R. Knill Freeman. It is constructed in sandstone, and consists of a nave, aisles, a chancel and a southwest steeple. The church holds services on Sundays and Wednesdays. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The church was built in 1895–95, replacing an earlier church of 1850, and was designed by R. Knill Freeman.

St Lawrence's Church is built in yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings, and has a slate roof with red ridge tiles. Its architectural style is Decorated. The plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a south chapel, and a southwest steeple. The steeple has a two-stage tower with angle buttresses rising to form corner pinnacles, and a south doorway with a moulded surround. Above are two square-headed lancet windows and a clock face. The top stage is octagonal and contains two-light louvred bell openings, and this is surmounted by an octagonal spire with lucarnes. Along the sides of the aisles are buttresses between which are arched three-light windows with intersecting tracery. The clerestory windows each have two round-headed lights, and the chancel windows are similar to those in the aisles, but with Perpendicular tracery. The east and west windows have five lights.