Church Of St Leonard

NY 01 SW 9/8

CLEATOR MOOR CHURCH STREET (South side), Cleator Church of St Leonard

G.V.

II Parish Church. C12 chancel, raised in late C18; rest of church rebuilt 1841. Western baptistry, north porch, and vestry added c1903 (date in spandrels to porch door) by J.H. Martindale (Carlisle). Chancel: sandstone blocks on chamfered plinth with pilaster buttresses and blocking course; rest snecked rubble with stepped buttresses and castellated parapets. Graduated slate roofs with apex crosses to stone copings; gabled bellcote to west end, over porch. Corniced octagonal stone chimneys to vestry on north side. Nave with western baptistry and north porch; lower chancel. Windows to chancel's side walls original; triple lancets to east end possibly C19. All other windows early C20 copies of C16 windows (traceried to west end and south side). 2 segment-headed arches open onto north porch; vestry door to east, porch door (with inscription above) to west, and stone bench along nave wall. Interior: 4-bay nave with hammer-beam roof; chancel has foliate bosses to wooden barrel vault. 4-centred arches to baptistry and chancel have Gothic panelling to reveals. Medieval piscina in chancel; Gothic wainscoting possibly C19. Mural stair on south side of nave to polygonal carved stone pulpit. Font possibly C17 with hexagonal bowl on column carried on octagonal plinth. Stained glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne (London) and Abbott & Co. (London and Lancaster). Nave and choir seating c1906.

Listing NGR: NY0142213468