Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197491
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197491
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON 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 ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newhaven
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 45451 02580
Details
NEWHAVEN
TQ4502 HEIGHTON ROAD, Denton 769-1/5/19 Church of St Leonard 20/05/49
GV II*
Parish church. C13, possibly containing earlier work, embellished and Ewindow added C14, reroofed. restored and vestry added mid-late C19, porch added early C20. Knapped flint, stone dressings, angle buttresses to S corner of chancel, tiled roof, weather-boarded bell-turret. Plan: nave and chancel undivided, bell-turret W end, S porch. W end 3-light window, bell-turret above; S front medieval lancet window, timber-framed porch with mid-C20 door, 2-light windows with rendered surrounds flanking C20 wooden-framed arch-headed window, rood-stair projection with with stair-light adjoining; 4-light Decorated E window; N front 2-light window, vestry with late C20 door on E front, 2-light Tudor arch-headed window, 4-light on W front, 2-light window by blocked N door, lancet beyond. Interior: rendered. Open king-post roof with boarded soffits to chancel. Undivided nave and chancel. Depressed 4-centred arch opening to roodstair opening above, stair extant. Deep splay to window opening with inserted C20 wooden-framed window to E of rood stair. Ogee-headed sedilia with quatrefoil-headed piscina with gabled top. C19-C20 doorway to vestry with lancet beside. Fine Norman font said to be identical to that in St Annes, Lewes; basket weave body with rosettes between narrowbands above, plaited strips below. C19 fittings; stained glass in Ewindow by Kempe, datwed 1897, given in memory of Miss Catt, the principal landowner in Denton who also built the local school (not included). (Buildings of England: Nairn I: Sussex: 1965-).
Listing NGR: TQ4545102580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374203
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965)
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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