Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, ST LEONARD'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048505
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, ST LEONARD'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048505
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, ST LEONARD'S 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, ST LEONARD'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60846 89078
Details
WALLINGFORD ST. LEONARD'S LANE SU6089SE (South side) Wallingford 11/128 Church of St. Leonard 09/12/49 (Formerly listed as Parish Church of St. Leonard's)
GV II*
Church. C11 tower, south arcade, apse, and other alterations c.1849 by Henry Hakewill. Flint and stone rubble mixture, with area of limestone rubble in herring-bone pattern below eaves of nave. Coursed squared stone to tower and apse; old plain-tile roof. Nave, south aisle, chancel and apse, with west tower. 6-panel door with wrought iron hinges to C19 Romanesque doorway with blind tympanum to right of nave. Irregular fenestration of C19 Romanesque lancets, except C14 style paired louvred lancet to Romanesque archway to each face with pyramidal roof. Rear: C19 plank door to left of centre of aisle. C19 lancets to aisle. C19 trefoils to nave clerestory. C19 lancet to chancel centre. C13 lancets to left and right. Blocked doorway with segmental pointed head to right: blocked opening with stone voussoirs to upper left. Interior: arch braced collar truss roof to chancel of 2 bays with 2 tiers of windbraces. C19 king post roof to nave of 3 bays. C19 lean-to roof to aisle. C19 apse arch with reset carving to chancel face of indented nail-head form, with basket work capitals to columns and carved faces to the responds of the arch. C19 chancel arch with reset carving to nave face of tablet-flower form with basket work imposts and outer sections of arch, C19 south arcade of 3 Romanesque arches. Good collection of late C18 funary monuments to north side of nave. Apse has wall paintings by G.D. Leslie c.1889. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923, p.540-1; Buildings of England; Berkshire, 1966, p24B).
Listing NGR: SU6084689078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249293
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 248
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 540-1
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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