Parish Church Of St Leonard

BEAUMONT-CUM-MOZE CHURCH LANE TM 12 SE 5/7 Parish Church of St. Leonard

GV II

Parish church. C14 origin, mainly rebuilt c.1854 by C. Hakewill, retaining some features of the earlier building. Original part of plastered rubble, remainder of exposed uncoursed rubble, with limestone dressings, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Chancel partly C14, Nave, N aisle, N vestry, S porch and W bellcote C19. The E buttresses of the Chancel are original, and in the S wall is an original doorway with chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch. In the Chancel is a piscina with moulded jambs, cinquefoiled head and sexfoiled drain, probably C15. Over the chancel-arch is a stone carved with the monogram IRS. The communion rail is early C18, with moulded rail and twisted balusters. Floor-slabs reported by RCHM (1) to Mrs. R.E. Rathbone, 1689, and (2) to Rev. James Rathbone, early C18, concealed by fitted carpet. In the S porch are 2 moulded wallplates, re-used in the C19 structure, and a C15 indent of a figure and inscription. There are 2 bells, the second inscribed 'John Darbie made me 1684' (date indistinct from a distance).

Listing NGR: TM1801124646