The Church of St Leonard is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.

The Church of St Leonard

WRENN ID
buried-wall-magpie
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
The Church of St Leonard, Warmingham Road, CW11 3QP
OS grid reference
SJ 709 610
Coordinates
53.14602, -2.4365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Leonard is a parish church that was originally timber framed, with a west tower built in 1715 and the present church constructed in 1870 by architect Hussey. The tower is made of small bluish bricks laid in Flemish bond, featuring a high stone plinth, quoins, and coved bands that divide it into four sections. The church itself is built from red sandstone squared rubble and has a slate roof. It has a cruciform plan with a four-bay nave and a narrower, less lofty one-bay chancel, both designed in the Perpendicular style.

The tower has gothic revival windows, which were replaced in 1899 and are based substantially on "Y" tracery. It features clock faces on the north and south sides, a bullseye window on the west, and louvred openings at the bell stage. Additional architectural details include a moulded cornice, crenellated parapet, and crocketted pinnacles. The north entrance porch has a gothic opening flanked by single shafts with a drip mould above, while the sides have quatrefoil openings and the entrance to the nave is in the Perpendicular style. The windows of the chancel and nave are also in the Perpendicular style, with stained glass present in the chancel. The church has corner clasping and inter-window buttresses, along with a crenellated nave parapet.

Inside, the transepts do not develop significantly, being only one bench width. The chancel features choir stalls with poppyheads, flanked by carved screens that separate a small altar to the north and an organ chamber to the south. Side aisles are formed by a gothic arcade with octagonal columns. There is a 16th-century carved oak font cover. The nave has arched collar trusses with hammer beams and corbels that are carved with faces, and the ends of four hammer beams also feature faces. The chancel has arched collar trusses that extend directly from corbels.

Local climate

The Church of St Leonard receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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