Church Of All Saints

LEEK WOOTTON Warwick Road (west side)

22/204 Church of All Saints

11.4.67

GV II

Parish church. Old church demolished 1789 and present tower and nave built on the site in Gothic style in 1792. Chancel added in 1843; nave roof raised in 1864, and nave lengthened in 1889. Consists of chancel, nave, west tower, vestry and south porch. Walls of sandstone ashlar and steeply pitched plain tile roofs. Tower of three stages with moulded stringcourse at each stage. Angle buttresses reach to the base of the embattled parapet. In west face of lowest stage is a three-light window with cinquefoil tracery, and above a blank quatrefoil window. At third stage are two-light belfry windows. Nave with plain parapet with three crocketted pinnacles. In south wall three windows, two of two-lights and one of three-lights. In north wall same type of windows but also a circular rose window. South porch has angle buttresses and tiled roof. Chancel with buttresses and continuous stringband at cill level. Below the four-light pointed east window with cinquefoil tracery, is a two-light mullioned window to a chamber built to make up for the fall in the ground from west to east. Three cinquefoil windows in south wall of chancel and one in north wall. Attached to north of chancel is a gabled vestry with three-light cinquefoil window in north gable. Interior: Chancel and nave have open timber roofs, that to nave is of hammer-beam construction. Panelled oak pulpit. Oak chancel screen erected in 1929. 1845 octagonal panelled stone font. In north wall of nave a tomb recess or Easter Sepulchre. In the church there are a number of C18 and C19 mural tablets. In churchyard immediately to east of south porch is a C12 tapered circular font.

Listing NGR: SP2886868765