St Lawrence's Church, Denton

St Lawrence's Church is a timber-framed church on Town Lane in Denton, a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England (grid reference SJ92639506). It is one of only 29 surviving timber-framed churches and chapels in England. The chapelry of Denton was established in 1531 with the construction of a chapel of ease, then Roman Catholic, within the Diocese of Lichfield and dedicated to St James. The church was rededicated to St Lawrence in 1839 and became a parish church in 1854. In 1872 it was expanded and remodelled by J. Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor. The building contains 16th-century stained glass and was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1967. It was restored between 1993 and 2003, funded by Tameside Council, and further restoration began in 2009.