Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Church.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- gentle-step-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, the Square, Shipham
- OS grid reference
- ST 443 574
- Coordinates
- 51.31319, -2.80038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is an Anglican parish church built in 1843 by J Wilson of Bath. It features coursed and squared rubble with a slate roof and coped verges, designed in a Gothic style. The church has a small chancel with an embattled tower at the south-west corner, which includes a porch on the ground floor and tall bell chamber windows in the hexagonal upper stage. Gargoyles, likely reused from an earlier structure, adorn the building. The three-bay nave has 2-light windows with simple tracery, while the east window is a 3-light design with reticulated tracery. Inside, the church has a galleried interior with an elaborate arch-braced roof. The reredos appears to be reused from a 15th-century hood screen, and there are two early 19th-century wall monuments and three 18th-century chairs. Stained glass in the north window of the nave commemorates Hannah More.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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