Church Of St Leonard

HAUGH TF 47 NW 2/17 Church of St. Leonard 9.3.67 G.V. I

Parish church. Cll,late C12, C14, C15, restored 1873. Squared chalk and greenstone coursed rubble with some red brick patching, concrete tiled roof. Nave and chancel. The west end in greenstone with rebuilt brick gable has 2 light C19 west window and a pointed bell opening to the gable. The north door, blocked, is late C12 with simply chamfered pointed arch and imposts. 2 light C19 window. The north wall of the chancel has a single C19 trefoil headed light. The east end is in a chalk ashlar with a 3 light C15 window, partly recut C19. The south side in greenstone is blank. The south wall of the nave has a 2 light C19 window with cusped ogee heads, set into an earlier round headed opening. The C14 south door has a chamfered ogee head with hacked back hood. Interior. Cll round headed chancel arch with chamfered imposts and reveals. In the chancel is a pointed facetted piscina and a C14 niche with moulded and brattished canopy containing C19 statue of St. Leonard. C14 octagonal font with curvilinear tracery to panels. Monuments. In the chancel are 5 C15 limestone slabs with margin inscriptions, one with a shield, the other a chalice. On the south side an alabaster wall plaque to Sir Charles Bolle, d.1590. With jewelled surround, shields, scrolled base and amorial escutcheon over. On the north wall a large wall monument to Sir John Bolle, d.1606 depicting deceased and wife kneeling opposite with sons and daughters beneath scrolled semi-circular arches, on a bracketed base with paterae and scroll work. Plain panels support a moulded cornice with 3 armorial escutcheons.

Listing NGR: TF4156275931