Church of Saint Leonard
CHURCH OF SAINT LEONARD, NANTWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177785
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT LEONARD, NANTWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177785
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT LEONARD, NANTWICH ROAD
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 SAINT LEONARD, NANTWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woore
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 73057 42380
Details
SJ 74 SW WOORE C.P. NANTWICH ROAD (north- east side)
3/147 Church of Saint Leonard GV II
Parish church. 1830-1, by George Ernest Hamilton of Stone. Internally restored and chancel added or rebuilt in 1887. Tower added in 1910, by Chapman and Snape of Newcastle. Rendered brick with slate roof. 5-bay nave with small one-bay chancel and west tower. Nave: plinth, cill band, impost band, panelled pilaster strips with bases and moulded capitals and continuous frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Triangular- pedimented gable and with deep eaves, and cross at apex to east. Integral brick stack in south-west corner. Round-arched small-paned windows. Chancel: plinth, cill string, panelled pilasters, frieze and moulded eaves cornice, and triangular-pedimented gable end with circular grille in tympanum and cross at apex. Tripartite east window with continuous cill and round-arched centre light. C20 flat-roofed vestry to north. Tower: 3 stages. First stage to west of 3 bays with plinth, cill string and panelled pilasters supporting frieze and cornice. Outer bays topped by attics, each with small-paned lights set in round-arched panels, cornice and coped parapet, and balustraded recess between. Set-back to second stage of tower and moulded cornice to belfry with moulded eaves cornice and pyramidal slate cap with cross at apex. Louvred round- arched belfry openings with moulded architraves and keystones, and each set in recessed panel. Round clock with moulded architrave on second stage to west and circular windows on other 3 faces with 4 panes and moulded architraves. Central pair of 3 panelled west doors with panelled reveals, moulded architrave and moulded cornice to triangular pediment. 3 steps up to door with flanking bootscrapers. One-bay returns to front stage with round-arched small-paned windows and small-paned attic lights. Interior: dog-leg stairs to tower and gallery at each side of entrance lobby; closed string with stick balusters and square newel posts. Moulded cornice to nave and chancel. Small boarded bracketed west gallery. Moulded elliptical chancel arch with panelled soffit, moulded capitals, and inscription: "HOLY. HOLY. HOLY. LORD. GOD. ALMIGHTY". Centre east window with moulded architrave and flanking windows with beaded corners. Fittings: chancel panelling with moulded cornice, probably of 1929. Communion rails to left and right with wrought-iron supports. Plain C19 choir stalls. Organ to right of chancel arch. Octagonal oak pulpit of 1929 with stem, paired panels, Corinthian colonnettes at corners and frieze and moulded cornice. Brass lectern. Oak chancel screen of 1917; 7 alternating wide and narrow bays with Corinthian columns on pedestals, frieze, cornice and central triangular pediment. In memory of Second Lieutenant Percy Mellor "who fell in action in France in the attack on the Hohenzollern redoubt". Plain pine pews. Octagonal stone font dated 1848 with step, stem with trefoil-headed panels, bowl with quatrefoil panels, and wooden cover with crockets and finial. Stained glass in north window of c.1905 by Kempe and Tower. The present building stands near the site of an earlier chapel-of-ease, first recorded in 1552. Hamilton published a book of "Designs for Rural Churches"in 1836. The builders employed for the erection of the tower in 1910 were Wilton and Son of Newcastle. B.o.E., p. 323; D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, Part 8, p. 741; Colvin, p.383; Vivienne Painting, The History of St. Leonard's Church Woore Shropshire.
Listing NGR: SJ7305742380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 741
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 383
Painting, V, The History of St Leonards Church Woore Shropshire, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 323
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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