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PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1127022
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1127022
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MAIN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Downham
National Grid Reference:: TL 52635 84172

Details

TL 58 SW DOWNHAM MAIN STREET (North Side) 4/11 Parish Church of 5.2.52 St Leonard

GV I

Parish Church. Tower C12 with C19 fourth stage replacing an earlier structure (W. Cole). C12 door reset in early C13 south aisle. Nave, aisles and chancel C13 unbuttressed, with walls repaired and partly rebuilt C19. C14 windows in chancel and aisles restored or replaced C19. Porch rebuilt C19 with C15 arch re-used. Roofs C19. Walls of pebble and limestone rubble with brick repairs, some clunch courses in chancel, with limestone dressings, some reused material. South elevation: Tower of four stages with plain parapet and angle pinnacles. Small loop window and second stage window; two-light belfry window in square headed arch with labels. Clerestory windows, lancet lights with wide deeply splayed inner arches. Two restored two-light aisle windows and two two-light chancel windows C14, with square headed arches and labels. South porch with C15 four-centred moulded arch qv. Bishop's Palace. South door rebuilt with two-centred arch, with two carved heads of inner order of mask ornament of clunch, possibly C13; chevron outer order; jambs with two chevroned and cabled shafts one to left hand with carved head of the devil. Door rebuilt C19 with original C13 boards and ironwork. Interior: chancel arch and nave arcade of five bays with alternate round and octagonal piers with plain moulded caps and bases, and two-centred arches of two chamfered orders. Tower arch possibly C12 chamfered with moulded label. Chancel; piscina C13 with double cinquefoil arch and foiled drains cut by C14 window. Roof of three bays, arch braced with painted C19 stencil decoration. C15 bell stock with curved cross braces in each bay. Screen, C15. Font C15 octagonal with quatrefoil and sunk panel decoration. Tapestry C19 used as reredos. George III Coat of Arms on west nave wall painted on canvas.

V.C.H. p92 The Village and Church 1974 Patterson, W Pevsner: Buildings of England p330

Listing NGR: TL5263584172

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 49462
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Patterson, W , The Village and Church, (1974)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 330
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 92

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.