Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. A C19 Church.

Church of St Leonard

WRENN ID
hollow-gutter-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Leonard, Church Lane, Chapel St. Leonards
OS grid reference
TF 552 720
Coordinates
53.22263, 0.32381
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Leonard is a parish church that was rebuilt in 1794, with the chancel added in 1866 and the tower constructed between 1891 and 1901 by W. Scorer, later enlarged in 1924. The building features ashlar stonework, along with some red and yellow brick, and has slate and plain tiled roofs.

The church includes a western tower, nave, chancel, and a south porch. The tower is two stages high, topped with an embattled parapet and a pyramidal roof, and has louvred bell openings on the sides. The west wall features a two-light window with cusped tracery and a similar belfry opening above it. The north wall has another two-light window, along with two semi-circular windows from 1794 that have key and impost blocks. The nave has a brick dentillated eaves course.

The vestry, built of yellow brick in 1891, has a gabled roof, a two-light traceried window, and a plain chamfered doorway facing east. The ashlar chancel includes a single lancet window on the north side, two lancets on the south, and a five-light panel traceried window in the east wall. The south wall of the nave has two two-light windows with 19th-century flowing tracery. The gabled south porch features a chamfered outer doorway with a moulded hood and a matching inner door, along with an additional two-light window from the 19th century.

Inside, there is a single chamfered tower arch and a semi-circular chancel arch. The chancel has a semi-circular opening leading to the vestry. The nave roof is supported by a king post with struts, which may have been reused. Additionally, there is a 19th-century circular ashlar font and a panelled pulpit. The church was originally rebuilt after flooding in 1572 and again in 1794 by Churchwarden Robert Empingham, using the former foundations.

Local climate

Church of St Leonard receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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