Church Of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Church.
Church Of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- floating-dormer-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Leonard is a parish church built between 1876 and 1878 by W.D. Griffin of Wolverhampton. It is constructed of rock-faced ashlar with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with plain tile roofs featuring coped verges and alternate crested ridge tiles. The church is designed in the late 13th century Gothic style and includes a west tower with diagonal buttresses, a four-bay nave, a single-bay chancel, and north and south chapels.
The west tower consists of three stages, each marked by moulded strings, and is topped with a crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles. It features a pointed west door with a hood mould that terminates in the heads of a queen and a bishop, along with a corbelled niche above that contains the effigy of a saint beneath a bracketed gabled hood. The first stage has single cinquefoil-headed lights under pointed arches on the north and south sides, while the second stage has a similar window on the west side, with hood moulds that terminate in foliage. The belfry openings are two-light windows with Geometric tracery.
The nave has two-light pointed windows also with Geometric tracery, while the chancel features a pointed three-light east window with Geometric tracery and a hood mould, with paired north and south windows and single-light pointed windows with Geometric tracery.
Inside, the pointed chancel arch is decorated with roll and fillet moulding and is supported by engaged clustered columns with foliated capitals. The pointed tower arch has two chamfered orders, with the inner one springing from foliated corbels. The arches leading to the north and south chapels are pointed and feature keeled roll mouldings, springing from engaged semi-octagonal columns with moulded bases and concave capitals. A roll and fillet moulded string runs at window sill level, and the roofs of the nave, chancel, and chapels are supported by scissor trusses.
Notable fittings include an octagonal font with a marble bowl and an octagonal pulpit with marble shafts at the angles.
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