Church Of St Leonard is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hearth-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with plaintile roofs. The church features an aisleless nave, a north porch, and a tower located at the southwest corner, along with a chancel that has a vestry to the north. The tower was built in 1854 and includes diagonal buttresses, a ground floor window with two lights featuring cusped Y-tracery, two cusped loop windows on the first floor, and four single light cusped bell openings. The tower is capped with a saddleback roof and a short spire.
The south wall of the nave has three 2-light 14th-century windows adorned with mouchettes and daggers, while the west wall features a late medieval 3-light window and a modern quatrefoil in the gable. The north porch, likely post-medieval, has brick dressings and an entrance front that showcases a chequer pattern of brick and knapped flint. The entrance arch is plain and chamfered, with 2-light mullion side windows that have rectangular hood moulds. There is a 14th-century moulded doorway and three similar north windows to those on the south wall. The chancel includes two rebuilt 2-light south windows and a Priest's doorway, as well as an 18th-century hollow chamfered triple lancet east window. The north side features a vestry built in 1900 and one late-medieval 2-light window.
Inside, there is a 14th-century chancel arch with shafted responds and a wave-moulded arch. A fragmentary late-medieval chancel screen has been revitalized with an organ loft and tracery designed by Sir Ninian Comper between 1911 and 1912. Comper also designed the front nave pews, pulpit, reading desk, organ case, chancel stalls, ceiling, reredos, and the stained glass in the east window. The church also contains a 14th-century font with mutilated carvings of the Evangelists.
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