Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241736
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241736
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 61478 67488
Details
SE 66 NW FARLINGTON -
3/1 Church of St Leonard
17.5.1960
- II
Church. Circa 1200 (Pevsner, p.160) with probably-C16 and later alterations and C19 restoration. Rubble brought to course, Welsh slate roof. Single 3-bay vessel, the nave and chancel in one with north porch and west bellcote. Chamfered plinth. South side: buttresses at ends and between bays with offsets. Quoined, chamfered, round-arched doorway with C19 board door to right of left bay; on its left a cusped-headed light, and at a higher level to its right a wide, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround and sunk spandrels; a similar window of 2 lights to right end. Raised verges, east end having cross finial, west end having gabled, cross-finialed, bellcote with 2 shouldered-arched bell-hanging openings. East end: 3 narrow, quoined, chamfered lights, the central one with shouldered head, the outer 2 round-arched. North side: C19 gabled porch of open timberwork on coursed stone base-wall masking round-arched south door with deep roll-moulding; C19 buttress at west end; added vestry at east end, not of special interest, having to its right at high level, a broad, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround. West end: Of C19 ashlar with central offset buttress flanked by lancets with hoodmoulds. Interior: C19 crown post roof; trefoil-headed aumbry in sanctuary; octagonal font with concave sides on circular column. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, the North Riding, (1981 reprint).
Listing NGR: SE6147867488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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