CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139673
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139673
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH 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:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET

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District:: Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Loftus
National Grid Reference:: NZ 72203 18121

Details

LOFTUS HIGH STREET NZ 7218 (off south side), Loftus. 4/37 Church of St. Leonard (Formerly listed in Church 20.1.67 Row) G.V. II Church, 1811 by Ignatius Bonomi, on site of medieval church; chancel rebuilt 1888 by William Watson, nave largely rebuilt 1900 by Clark and Moscrop (Darlington). Dressed sandstone; plain clay tile roof with stone gable copings; shallow-pitched metal roof on north aisle. 4-bay nave, with north aisle, 2-bay chancel, north-east organ chamber and vestry; and west tower. 4-stage tower has round-headed south doorway with 6-panel door and panelled tympanum, flat surround and keystone. West, round-headed, leaded-light stair window with Gothick mullions, voussoirs, keystone and impost bands. Paired, round-headed, louvred bell openings; clock faces below on west and north faces. Embattled parapet with ramped angle finials; cock weather vane. Quasi-Perpendicular nave and chancel. Nave bays defined by gabled buttresses. Basket-arched windows, with hoodmoulds and string course below sills to south and east. Chamfered sill band to rectangular windows in north aisle; similar clerestorey windows. Round-headed cross windows in west wall of nave and blocked semicircular gallery light in south-west wall, all with keystones. East cross finial. Interior: open-well staircase, with moulded stick balusters, fluted square newels and ramped handrails, in tower. Pointed, double hollow-chamfered north arcade with short octagonal piers without capitals or bases. Organ chamber open to nave and chancel via similar openings. Panelled wagon roof with Tudor rose bosses. Brattishing to wall plates in chancel. Panelled north aisle roof. Stained glass in east window c.1910. Encaustic tiled floors in chancel and sanctuary. Carved oak Perpendicular-style rood screen and beam with cross suspended on iron rods; traceried panels enriched with figures of angels. Fan vaulting connects beam and screen. Oak reredos 1926, with corniced canopy carved with figures of angels, traceried arches, drop tracery, vine ornament to cornice and foliate brattishing. Mid C19 octagonal stone font in shape of chalice with sides of bowl panelled and ornamented with crosses; egg-and-dart moulded rim. Marble monument 1844 by T. Earle to Sir Robert Dundas on north wall of chancel. Ancient drum font on modern stem outside north face of tower.

Listing NGR: NZ7220318121

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Legacy System number:: 60193
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.