Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1960. Church.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- third-footing-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Farlington
- OS grid reference
- SE 614 674
- Coordinates
- 54.09964, -1.06139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a church dating from around 1200, with probable alterations from the 16th century and later, as well as restoration in the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble brought to course and has a Welsh slate roof. The building features a single three-bay vessel, with the nave and chancel combined, a north porch, and a west bellcote.
On the south side, there are buttresses at both ends and between the bays, along with a chamfered plinth. There is a quoined, chamfered, round-arched doorway with a 19th-century board door to the right of the left bay. To the left of this doorway is a cusped-headed light, and to the right, at a higher level, is a wide, cusped-headed light with a chamfered quoined surround and sunk spandrels. The right end features a similar window with two lights. The raised verges include a cross finial at the east end and a gabled bellcote at the west end, which has two shouldered-arched openings for bell-hanging.
The east end has three narrow, quoined, chamfered lights, with the central light having a shouldered head and the outer two being round-arched. On the north side, there is a 19th-century gabled porch made of open timberwork on a coursed stone base-wall, which masks a round-arched south door with deep roll-moulding. A 19th-century buttress is located at the west end, and there is an added vestry at the east end, which is not of special interest, featuring a broad, cusped-headed light with a chamfered quoined surround at high level to its right.
The west end is made of 19th-century ashlar and includes a central offset buttress flanked by lancet windows with hoodmoulds. Inside, there is a 19th-century crown post roof, a trefoil-headed aumbry in the sanctuary, and an octagonal font with concave sides on a circular column.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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