A new device of lateral-spread photorefractive volume holographic lens is presented. It is recorded holographically by the interference of a plane wave and a spherical wave in a double-doped LiNbO3 crystal. The lens can laterally spread and focus the plane wave which perpendicularly incident crystal planar, and vice versa. The lens has the advantages of light weight, high reliability that the general volume holographic lens possesses. Moreover, it has the particular properties of lateral-spread, small duty ratio and easy of minimized integration. On the basis of the coupled-wave theory of local volume holography, the amplitude distribution and the diffraction efficiency of the diffracted beams are calculated. The normalized intensity profile at the focal plane is given and compared with that of an ideal convergent spherical wave.