Old Font Outside East Wall of Church of St Leonard the Less is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Font.
Old Font Outside East Wall of Church of St Leonard the Less
- WRENN ID
- waning-rubble-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Font
- Address
- Old Font Outside East Wall of Church of St Leonard the Less, Potter Lane, Samlesbury
- OS grid reference
- SD 589 303
- Coordinates
- 53.76804, -2.62351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The old font located outside the east wall of the Church of St. Leonard the Less is a plain cylindrical stone tub, inscribed with "TW 1769". It was removed from the church around 1900 when the original font was restored and was placed in its current position in 1975.
Local climate
Old Font Outside East Wall of Church of St Leonard the Less sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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