Brentford No. 1 / Braynford / Breguntford

No individual entry found for Brentford in the Domesday survey. The entry for Brentford in Lysons (1795) notes: "the font is gothic". Pevsner (1951) writes: "Font. C15, plain." The entry for this paris in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 7, 1982) notes: "Ecclesiastical synods were held at Brentford in the 8th century, [...] apparently before there was a church. Between 1175 and 1179 Ralph de Brito founded St. Lawrence's hospital, New Brentford, in honour of the royal family, his lord Richard de Lucy (d. 1179), and his own kin. Beside it he founded St. Lawrence's chapel, served by a chaplain, and a burial ground. [...] The existing church of ST. LAWRENCE, New Brentford, on the south side of High Street, is at least the second one on the site. Nothing is visible of the 12th-century chapel and only the 15th-century tower, of Kentish ragstone with Reigate stone dressings, remains from before a rebuilding of 1764. [...] Disused from 1911, [...] the church was dilapidated by 1979, when it was leased to the St. Lawrence, Brentford, Trust. Many fittings were then removed, while the fabric was restored to serve as a theatre. [...] Fittings formerly included a plain font of c. 1500". The English Heritage [ca. 2013] report notes: "Former C15 church tower, nave 1764 by Thomas Hardwicke. Victorian additions. Empty since 1960s and stripped of fittings. Urgent repairs to the medieval tower were carried out; building since neglected but weathertight. Proposals for waterside development, including the church, have stalled. Condition of the building is deteriorating. -- As of September 2013 – Planning permission applied for by Ballymore to convert the church into a gym."


Fittings formerly included a plain font of c. 1500".