St Leonards Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. A Medieval Tower. 4 related planning applications.
St Leonards Tower
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gallery-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8571SE WOLBOROUGH STREET 1012-1/13/159 St Leonard's Tower 16/07/49
GV II*
Tower of a C15 church of which the rest was demolished in 1836 for road widening. It is now on an island site. Squared Plymouth stone with a pointed granite arch over a C20 plank door in the south-west elevation. Slightly battered, in 2 stages delineated by moulded string courses, one below a battlemented parapet, the other below the upper stage which has 2-light pointed-arched windows to the top of each side and large clocks to the west and east sides. The north-east side bears traces of the roof line of the former nave, and a pointed-arched recess with a small trefoil-headed window. To the base of this side is a granite plaque with the inscription: "This tower was refurbished in 1972-1973 by the people of Newton Abbot in memory of Councillor Arthur Claude Shobbrook, JP CA who died on July 17 July 1970." (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 592).
Listing NGR: SX8579871202
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