St Mary & St Lawrence's Church, Stratford Tony

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 1 October 1984, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1986.[3]

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church
Location	Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates	51°02′13″N 1°52′14″W
Built	13th century
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence
Designated	23 March 1960[1]
Reference no.	1181901
Location of St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Wiltshire

The stone and flint church is on the banks of the River Ebble and accessed down a narrow lane, then across a stream and up a steep bank on foot.[2] The chancel dates from the 14th, but was built on the site of an earlier church.[1][4] The tower is from the 15th, while the nave was rebuilt in the 18th century.[1] The three-stage west tower has a pyramidal tiled roof and is supported by diagonal buttresses. Around the church walls are a collection of gargoyles.[1]

The interior of the church includes a 14th-century font and box pews with colonnaded tops.[5] The stained glass in the east window was installed by the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1884.[2] The stalls and pews are from the 17th century.[6] Memorials include a marble plaque to George Taunton and a wall tablet to Elizabeth Hill who died in 1715.[1]

In 2012 Loyd Grossman, who is the chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, visited the church and presented certificates to local school children who had researched the history of the church.[7]

There is a large Yew tree in the churchyard with a girth of over 11 feet (3.4 m).[8][9] Among the graves and tombs in the churchyard is a chest tomb to Anthony Bradbury who dies in 1845.[10]