Church Of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Church.
Church Of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- sacred-chancel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1864 by E.F. Law, funded by the 6th Duke of Grafton. It is made of coursed squared rock-faced limestone with limestone dressings and features slate roofs. The church includes a chancel, vestry, nave, and a north porch, showcasing Geometrical and Decorated architectural styles.
The chancel has a three-light east window with Geometrical-style tracery and a hood mould, along with one-light windows on the north and south sides that have trefoils at the top. There is a priest's door on the north side, featuring a continuous hollow chamfer and a pointed trefoil head, with shafts that have foliage capitals and a pointed arch hood mould. The small vestry to the south has a cat-slide roof and a two-light window with a rectangular chamfered stone surround.
The nave has three bays, with two-light Decorated-style windows on the north and south sides, and a three-light window at the west end that has Geometrical-style tracery and a hood mould. The north door includes shafts with foliage capitals in a porch that has a similar doorway and small four-light windows on the east and west sides. A bell-cote is located on the east gable of the nave. The church features diagonal offset buttresses on the chancel and offset buttresses at the west end of the nave and between the bays. It has a chamfered plinth, overhanging eaves, and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
Inside, the windows have alternate red and blue bricks at their heads. The chancel arch is supported by elaborate carved foliage corbels, and there are converted wall-mounted oil lamps in the nave. An oak reredos from 1904 is present, along with a stained glass window from 1865 in memory of Lady Charles Fitzroy, and a stained glass east window from 1903 made of Munich glass.
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