Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Church.

Church of St Leonard

WRENN ID
little-moat-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1987
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Leonard, Whitsbury
OS grid reference
SU 129 191
Coordinates
50.97149, -1.8175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church with medieval origins, featuring an 18th-century tower that was rebuilt in 1878. It is constructed of brick and reused squared stone, with a flint plinth, a brick tower, and repairs, all topped with a plain tile roof. The layout includes a chancel with a north vestry, a nave, and a west tower, designed in the Decorated style. The east window is a triple lancet with circular tracery above and a hood mould, while other windows are trefoiled, except for an older window on the north side. The gable walls have kneelers, and there are paired lancets in both the nave and the tower. The tower features chamfered lower stages and a pointed west door. Inside, the church has 19th-century elements, including a pointed arch on corbel capitals leading to the vestry and chancel. There are early and mid-19th-century memorials to the Templeman and Purvis families. Access to the tower porch is via five steps, which also features stone tablets from 1762 dedicated to Charles Delafaye and a small plain cylindrical font from the old church.

Local climate

Church of St Leonard receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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