Church of St. Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1957. Church.

Church of St. Leonard

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Basingstoke and Deane
Constituency
North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1957
Type
Church
Address
Church of St. Leonard, Sherfield on Loddon
OS grid reference
SU 671 567
Coordinates
51.30631, -1.03744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Leonard is a Grade II listed building located in Sherfield on Loddon. It dates back to the 14th century and was largely restored in 1866 by Woodman, with further work on the tower completed in 1872 by J W Hugall. The church features a nave, chancel, and small northern additions to the chancel and the east end of the nave, along with a tower above the south porch. The roof is tiled, and the walls are constructed from flint with stone dressings, while parts of the base wall at the eastern end are made of stone rubble. The priest's door and west door have old stone frames, and there are remnants of 14th-century traceried windows.

Inside, the church has a Victorian interior but retains some older features, including a brass from 1590 and another from 1595, floor tomb slabs dated 1708 and 1735, a painted 'benefactors' panel from 1710, and a set of mid-19th century 'Gothic' prescriptions from the redundant church of Stratfield Turgis. The tower is a prominent feature, consisting of three stages with flat buttresses of flint and stone dressings, topped by a shingled broach spire.

Local climate

Church of St. Leonard receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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