Chapel of St Leonard is a Grade I listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Chapel.

Chapel of St Leonard

WRENN ID
gentle-trefoil-harvest
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1966
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel of St Leonard, Billington and Langho
OS grid reference
SD 701 358
Coordinates
53.8182, -2.45556
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of St Leonard is a Grade I listed church, believed to have been built in 1557, with some architectural elements dating back to around 1500. It underwent restoration in 1879. The chapel is constructed from sandstone blocks and features a stone slate roof. The layout includes a nave with a continuous chancel, a north vestry added during the 1879 restoration, and a south porch.

The west wall showcases a re-used moulded string course positioned below the window sill. The window here consists of four cinquefoiled lights with Perpendicular tracery beneath a flat head, although the mouldings of the head and jambs do not match. The gable is coped and topped with a bellcote at the apex. The south wall has two bays with a moulded plinth and windows similar to the west window, but each with three lights. The gabled porch features a chamfered outer doorway with a Tudor arch, while the inner doorway is moulded with a segmental arch.

The east wall is coped with kneelers and includes a 19th-century window with three cinquefoiled lights under a Tudor-arched head, also with Perpendicular tracery. The north wall has two windows that mirror those on the south wall. Various pieces of re-used carved stonework are integrated into the outer walls, including part of a nodding ogee canopy above the east window.

Inside, the chapel has a 16th-century roof supported by king posts that rise from moulded tie beams, complemented by queen struts. At the east end of the south wall, there is a re-set trefoiled piscina with a hood, and opposite it, projecting from the north wall, is an elaborately carved stoup, also re-set. The pews were reconstructed during the 19th-century restoration but retain their carved ends, many of which bear initials and dates from between 1688 and 1692.

Local climate

Chapel of St Leonard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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