Church of Saint Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Church.
Church of Saint Leonard
- WRENN ID
- fossil-moulding-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Leonard, Mill Lane, Pitcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 672 327
- Coordinates
- 51.09283, -2.4687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Leonard is a church that features a 15th-century tower, with the rest of the building rebuilt in 1858 by architect G E Street. The tower is constructed from local stone with ashlar dressings, while the remainder of the church is made of Cary stone with Doulting dressings. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate and have coped gables topped with cross finials. The church has a four-cell plan consisting of a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave, a north aisle, and a northeast vestry, along with a south porch and a west tower.
The chancel includes a plinth, a stepped cill course, and offset corner buttresses. It features 19th-century traceried pointed arched windows with three lights on the east side and one and two lights on the south side. The nave has recessed 15th-century style traceried windows on the south wall, while the north aisle contains quasi-plate tracery windows with two and three lights, separated by buttresses between the bays.
The tower has four stages, with full-height angled offset corner buttresses, plinth string courses, crenellated parapets with corner pinnacles, and middle and corner gargoyles. The west door is a moulded four-centre arch with a flat label above it. Above this door, there is a three-light 15th-century traceried window set in a slight recess, with a string course angled as a label. Each face of the fourth stage has a two-light 15th-century traceried window with timber louvres. There is a hexagonal plan staircase turret on the northeast side that is three stages high, featuring a single cusped light window in a deep recess without a label on the south side of the third stage.
Inside, the church is predominantly in a late 13th-century style. It has a fine limewood panel set into an oak panel reredos, a Norman tub font set on a later base, a 15th-century panelled tower arch, fragments of medieval glass in the west tower window, and a few 17th-century bench ends in the north aisle. The church likely has 12th-century foundations and was served by monks from Bruton Priory until the dissolution.
Local climate
Church of Saint Leonard receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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