Church Of St Leonard

SE 66 NW FARLINGTON -

3/1 Church of St Leonard

17.5.1960

• II

Church. Circa 1200 (Pevsner, p.160) with probably-C16 and later alterations and C19 restoration. Rubble brought to course, Welsh slate roof. Single 3-bay vessel, the nave and chancel in one with north porch and west bellcote. Chamfered plinth. South side: buttresses at ends and between bays with offsets. Quoined, chamfered, round-arched doorway with C19 board door to right of left bay; on its left a cusped-headed light, and at a higher level to its right a wide, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround and sunk spandrels; a similar window of 2 lights to right end. Raised verges, east end having cross finial, west end having gabled, cross-finialed, bellcote with 2 shouldered-arched bell-hanging openings. East end: 3 narrow, quoined, chamfered lights, the central one with shouldered head, the outer 2 round-arched. North side: C19 gabled porch of open timberwork on coursed stone base-wall masking round-arched south door with deep roll-moulding; C19 buttress at west end; added vestry at east end, not of special interest, having to its right at high level, a broad, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround. West end: Of C19 ashlar with central offset buttress flanked by lancets with hoodmoulds. Interior: C19 crown post roof; trefoil-headed aumbry in sanctuary; octagonal font with concave sides on circular column. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, the North Riding, (1981 reprint).

Listing NGR: SE6147867488