Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SPERNALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024518
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SPERNALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024518
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SPERNALL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SPERNALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spernall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 08640 62123
Details
SPERNALL SPERNAL LANE SP06SE (South side) 4/175 Church of St. Leonard 01/02/67
GV II*
Church, now workshop. Nave C12 and C14, chancel 1844, porch and bellcote c.1844. Nave of limestone; north wall ashlar, but with some C19 brick; south wall coursed rubble up to approx. 2m., with C19 lias ashlar above; west end regular coursed. Chancel and porch of lias ashlar. Nave roof of old tiles. Chancel of C20 tiles; C19 coped gables. Nave and chancel, south porch and west bellcote. Neo-Norman style chancel. One-bay chancel, 2-bay nave. Porch has round-arched part-glazed double leaf doors. Inside the square-headed south door of c.1600 has 5 vertical panels and strap hinges. Chancel has string course, carried as hood mould over north and south windows. Low central east buttress. Angles with nook-shafts. East wheel window with radiating colonettes. North and south sides have single round-headed windows. Nave has west angle and central buttresses. 2-light Decorated windows with cinqfoiled lights of red sandstone to north and south; the eastern pair are C14, the western C19. North door has C14 jambs and early C14 four-centred arch, and oak door of 1535 (Buildings of England) with applied ribs and ogee panelling, carving and studded strap hinges. Late C13 (Buildings of England) west window has Y-tracery with trefoil. Coped bellcote with ogee opening. Interior: Chancel has double-framed roof with wind braces. East window within arch. Chancel arch has C19 shafts and C12 roll-moulded arch. Nave has plastered walls. Queen strut and arched braced roof, possibly with some re-used old timbers. Fittings: Panelling of c.1835. C20 font. Stained glass: Fragments of C15 glass in north window. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.1ll, pp.173-174, Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.404).
Listing NGR: SP0864062123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305523
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 173-174
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 404
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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