Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293405
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293405
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yardley Gobion
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 76518 44752
Details
YARDLEY GOBION HIGH STREET SP7643 (South side) 14/154 Church of St. Leonard
GV II
Church. Built 1864 by E.F. Law at the expense of the 6th Duke of Grafton. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone, limestone dressings and slate roofs. Chancel, vestry, nave and north porch. Geometrical and Decorated styles. Chancel has 3-light east window with Geometrical-style tracery and hood mould and a one-light window to north and south with trefoil to head. Priest's door to north with continuous hollow chamfer and pointed trefoil head innermost, shafts with foliage capitals and pointed arch outermost and hood mould. Small vestry to south with cat-slide roof and 2-light window to south with rectangular chamfered stone surround. 3-bay nave has 2-light Decorated-style windows to north and south and 3-light window to west end with Geometrical-style tracery and hood mould. North door has shafts with foliage capitals in porch with similar doorway and small 4-light windows to east and west sides. Bell-cote to east gable of nave. Diagonal offset buttresses to chancel, off-set buttresses to west end of nave and between bays. Chamfered plinth, overhanging eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Interior: windows have alternate red and blue bricks to heads. Elaborate carved foliage corbels to chancel arch and converted wall-mounted oil lamps to nave. Oak reredos of 1904. Stain glass window of 1865 to memory of Lady Charles Fitzroy, stain-glass east window of 1903 of Munich glass. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p471; Kelly's Directory for Northamptonshire: 1936)
Listing NGR: SP7651844752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 471
Kellys Directory in Northamptonshire, (1936)
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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