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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
IPSTONES C.P. CHURCH LANE, Stocks Green SK 05 SW (north side) 6/216 Church of St Leonard 3.1.67
GV II
Parish church. Constructed 1789-92 at the expense of the Sneyd family, and extended 1902-3 by Gerald Horsley. Sandstone ashlar; part tile, part stone slate roof concealed at eaves by crenellation. Tower, nave with south porch and chancel. Tower: of 3 stages, banded at each stage and with angle buttresses of 4 stages dying into pilasters at bell chamber level and carried up to pinnacles above a crenellated parapet; Y-tracery bell chamber openings formerly taller, now part blocked, 4-light (2 outer now blocked) west window with panel tracery, trefoil lights and Tudor-arched head. Nave: of 4 bays divided by 3-stage buttresses, bands at cill and eaves level; Y-tracery windows; south- west window part-obscured by gabled porch and with oval plaque over dated 1790; further segmental pedimented plaque to south-east bay with fluted urn to tympanum. Chancel: by Horsley of 1902-3; one bay with 3-sided canted east end; angles surmounted by crocketed pinnacles; Tudor arch, 4-light east window with curvilinear tracery and low-relief crucifixion over.
Listing NGR: SK0178450219
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