Church of St Leonard
Church of St Leonard, Sysonby Grange Lane, Sysonby, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0JG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235814
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Leonard, Sysonby Grange Lane, Sysonby, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0JG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235814
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Leonard, Sysonby Grange Lane, Sysonby, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0JG
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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, Sysonby Grange Lane, Sysonby, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0JG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK7385418978
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 February 2025 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards.
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SYSONBY GRANGE LANE (east side)
Church of St Leonard
(Formerly listed as CHURCH OF ST MARY, previously listed as SYSONBY GRANGE LANE, SYSONBY CHURCH)
12-OCT-76
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II
DATES OF MAIN PHASES, NAME OF ARCHITECT: C15-C16 church restored in 1892.
MATERIALS: rubble and dressed ironstone, with graded slate roofs.
PLAN: nave and chancel under a single roof, west tower, north-west vestry.
EXTERIOR: a small, simple Gothic church of unusual configuration. The tower dominates the exterior, narrow and tall under a transverse saddleback roof on a very small scale, and with low set-back buttresses in the lower stage. It has a plain west lancet and small round-headed gable windows. Nave and chancel are buttressed, of which one buttress is dated 1915. In the south wall is a three-light square-headed window, in a larger partially blocked opening, with uncusped lights. The pointed south doorway has worn continuous hollow mouldings. The north wall has only a small two-light square-headed window. The C19 east window is three stepped lancets. The vestry has a hipped roof and mullioned windows, lending the church a domestic character on this north elevation.
INTERIOR: there is a tall plain pointed tower arch, but no chancel arch. Nave and chancel have a simple queen-post roof. Walls are unplastered. The floor is stone paved, with some C19 incised floor slabs.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: there are two furnishings of note, the C17 communion rail with turned balusters, and C18 marble baluster font; there is also fairly modern stained glass in the south window.
HISTORY: a small church of C15-C16 where the associated settlement has now vanished. It was restored in 1892 at a cost of £300 donated by Colonel Richard Dalgleish (recorded on a plaque inside the building). The north-west vestry was added in 1925.
SOURCES: G. Brandwood, Bringing them to their Knees: Church Building and Restoration in Leicestershire and Rutland 1800-1914, 2002, p 125.
N. Pevsner (revised E. Williamson), The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, 1984, p 402.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: the Church of St Leonard, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a small late-medieval church in characteristic local materials, with a distinctive west tower.
* Interior fittings of interest include C17 communion rails and C18 font.
Listing NGR: SK7385418978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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