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
- 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.
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