Church of St Leonard is a Grade II* listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1968. Church.

Church of St Leonard

WRENN ID
crooked-attic-thunder
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Telford and Wrekin
Constituency
Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1968
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Leonard, Church Street, Great Dawley
OS grid reference
SJ 689 081
Coordinates
52.66988, -2.46132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Leonard, built in 1805 by Thomas Telford, is an ashlar church designed in an elongated octagonal shape with a hipped slate roof. It features two tiers of round-arched windows and a stringcourse between them. The large west tower is constructed in four stages, with the ground stage being rusticated. The bell stage includes clasping buttresses and round-headed bell-openings. Inside, the layout is distinct, featuring a rectangular chancel with sacristies in the adjacent triangles. There are galleries on three sides of the nave supported by slim columns. This church is similar in design to St Michael's Church in Madeley, which was also built by Thomas Telford in 1796.

Local climate

Church of St Leonard receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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