Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C15 Church.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Church Lane, Drayton St. Leonard
- OS grid reference
- SU 596 964
- Coordinates
- 51.66397, -1.13869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Leonard is a church with origins dating back to the 12th century, featuring a 15th-century tower and restored around 1859 by architect George Edmund Street, which included partial rebuilding of the chancel. The building is roughcast, likely over stone rubble for the nave, with squared coursed stone used for the chancel. It has an old plain-tile roof, while the tower has 20th-century weatherboarding and a pyramidal old plain-tile roof.
The church consists of a 4-bay nave, a north aisle, a transept, a chancel, and a west tower. To the left of the center, there is a 19th-century plank door with a 13th-century stone surround, accompanied by a 17th-century timber-framed porch featuring a collar-truss roof. The church has 2-light Perpendicular windows on either side with flat hoods, two 2-light Perpendicular windows in the chancel, and 3-light windows with intersecting tracery at the end of the chancel. The north side includes 19th-century lancets for the chancel and north aisle, a 15th-century lancet for the nave, and a single lancet at the west end. There are paired louvred openings on each side of the tower.
Inside, the chancel features a 19th-century braced collar-truss roof, a trefoil piscina to the right, and 15th-century stained glass in the trefoil lancet to the left. There is an area of medieval floor tiles behind the altar and a 2-centred chancel arch. The nave has a 19th-century braced collar-truss roof, possibly with 15th-century tie-beams. To the right, there is an early 20th-century wood pulpit that is painted and decorated, along with a 19th-century octagonal stone font. The tower's restored 15th-century timber framing includes infill towards the nave made of 18th-century box pew panels.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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