Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295131
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295131
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ab Kettleby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 73580 23638
Details
AB KETTLEBY CHURCH LANE (West Side) HOLWELL SK 73 23 Church of St Leonard St Ieanard 23/249 II* 1.1.68
Church. C13, repaired C17 and C19. Coursed squared ironstone and limestone, lead roof. Nave and chancel in one. 3-light E window with intersecting tracery flanked by diagonal off-set buttresses. Lancet window to SE with hood mould. Narrow 1-light window to middle S wall with chamfered jambs and stone lintel. Part-blocked S door with chamfer and triangular archer head, top half now a window. 1-light window to SW with chamfered surround. N side has 2-light window to NE with chamfered stone mullion and straight head. N door has chamfer, depressed arched head and hood mould. Offset buttress to right of NE window. W end has faucet window to right of centre with hood mould and projecting bell- cote to centre with single arched opening for bell. Interior: Font, probably C17, with 16-sided bowl, stern and base. Medieval stain-glass shield in E window. Quarries of diamond-leaded SW window have a number of scratched inscriptions recording repairs as follows: H Truckwood/1775; Wm Wainwright/Plumber and Glazier/Sept 1818; Wm Palmer/Plumber and Glazier/Melton Mowbray/January 20/1827; (nearby). Plumber Stupid/Lout; C Kingham/Plumber and Glazier/1889/Melton. Buildings of England. Leicester 1984, p.179.
Listing NGR: SK7358023638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 179
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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