Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1964. Parish church.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- salt-forge-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Main Road, Wigginton and Hopwas
- OS grid reference
- SK 208 067
- Coordinates
- 52.65851, -1.69256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a parish church dating to 1777, with a north aisle added in 1830 and a chancel and vestry constructed between 1861 and 1862 by Nicholas Joyce of Burton. The nave and aisle are built of red brick on a sandstone plinth, while the chancel is of random rubble construction. All have slate roofs with coped verges. The church includes a three-bay nave with a north aisle and a western bell turret, a two-bay chancel with clasping buttresses, and a north-east vestry in an L-shape.
The nave and aisle feature tall windows with small panes, each having semi-circular arches springing from imposts. The north aisle has a circular west window with a moulded stone surround and a west door with a similarly detailed surround and a cyma recta moulded cornice hood. The nave's gabled western porch is of the 19th century, with a pointed doorway flanked by two circular windows with moulded stone frames. Above the porch is a Diocletian window, and the bell turret has a hipped roof with a circular oculus on each side.
The chancel has two south windows: the western one with two lights and plate tracery, and the eastern one with a single light. A sill string continues as a hood mould over a central pointed door. The east window is pointed, with three lights, Geometric tracery, and a hood mould with foliated stops.
The vestry has pointed two-light windows with plate tracery facing north and east.
Inside, two massive Tuscan columns support the west turret, and two cast iron columns stand between the nave and aisle. A north gallery is also supported by cast iron columns. The chancel arch is pointed and chamfered, with an inner chamfered order springing from short, corbelled half-columns decorated with stiff leaf motifs. The nave has a plain plaster ceiling, while the chancel has an arch braced collar roof.
Notable fittings include a mid- to late-19th century stone font, featuring an octagonal base with ribbed and banded decoration, and a wooden font cover made around 1938. The church also contains a full set of 20th-century pews, a wooden Gothic-style pulpit, a brass altar rail with decorative brackets, and wainscotting in the sanctuary from around 1935.
Stained glass windows include an east window of 1893 depicting the Nativity, Baptism, and Crucifixion of Jesus; a south-west window of 1897 portraying Saints Luke and John; and a small south-east window depicting Mary and Jesus.
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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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