Church of St Leonard is a Grade II* listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. A Georgian Church.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- deep-panel-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Church Lane, Ipstones
- OS grid reference
- SK 017 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04925, -1.97483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a parish church built between 1789 and 1792, funded by the Sneyd family, and later extended from 1902 to 1903 by Gerald Horsley. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a roof that is partly tiled and partly covered with stone slate, concealed at the eaves by crenellation. The church features a tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel.
The tower has three stages, with bands at each stage and four-stage angle buttresses that transition into pilasters at the bell chamber level, topped with pinnacles above a crenellated parapet. The bell chamber openings, which originally had Y-tracery and were taller, are now partially blocked. The west window has four lights, with two outer lights now blocked, featuring panel tracery, trefoil lights, and a Tudor-arched head.
The nave consists of four bays divided by three-stage buttresses, with bands at the cill and eaves levels. It has Y-tracery windows, and the south-west window is partially obscured by a gabled porch that has an oval plaque dated 1790 above it. There is also a segmental pedimented plaque on the south-east bay, which features a fluted urn in the tympanum.
The chancel, designed by Horsley in 1902-3, has one bay with a three-sided canted east end, with angles topped by crocketed pinnacles. It features a Tudor arch and a four-light east window with curvilinear tracery, along with a low-relief crucifixion above it.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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