In this paper, we explore the nature of central idempotents of Schur rings over finite groups. We introduce the concept of a lattice Schur ring and explore properties of these kinds of Schur rings. In particular, the primitive, central idempotents of lattice Schur rings are completely determined. For a general Schur ring S, S contains a maximal lattice Schur ring, whose central, primitive idempotents form a system of pairwise orthogonal, central idempotents in S. We show that if S is a Schur ring with rational coefficients over a cyclic group, then these idempotents are always primitive and are spanned by the normal subgroups contained in S. Furthermore, a Wedderburn decomposition of Schur rings over cyclic groups is given. Some examples of Schur rings over non-cyclic groups will also be explored.Keywords: Schur Ring, cyclic group, primitive idempotent, group ring, Wedderburn decomposition AMS Classification: 20C05, 17C27, 16D70In 1950, Perlis and Walker [17] published the following result on the rational group algebra of a finite abelian group:Theorem. Let ζ n = e 2πi/n ∈ C. Let G be a finite abelian group of order n.where a d is the number of cyclic subgroups (or cyclic quotients) of G of order d. In particular, if G = Z n is a cyclic group of order n, thenOne consequence of the above decomposition is a solution to the isomorphism problem of group rings over finite abelian groups with integer coefficients. Since then, several other results about rational group algebras have been published