Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298645
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298645
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, NEW CHURCH 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, NEW CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26590 05250
Details
HOVE
TQ20NE NEW CHURCH ROAD, Aldrington 579-1/3/151 (North side) 24/03/50 Church of St Leonard
II
Parish church. 1878 nave (now south aisle) and tower on site of former medieval church, 1936 nave, chancel and spire. Architect of C19 work Richard Herbert Carpenter, C20 work by H.Milburn Pett. Dressed knapped flint, squared and coursed, stone dressings and quoins, north wall of brick, clay tile roof, coped verges, broached spire with wooden shingles. Plan: 6-bay nave with south aisle, south-west tower, chancel, north-east brick addition, south-east vestry and south porch (no longer used), entrance now via west end of nave. Low, setback buttresses to 2-stage tower, 2-light louvred bell-openings, 3 lancet windows either side of timber-framed south porch with ornate bargeboards. Date stone in plinth of chancel inscribed "This stone was laid with full masonic --- by the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons of Sussex, Major R.Lawrence Thornton CBE on the day of the 6 June 1936". Interior: rendered. Chancel: arch braced scissor truss roof, nave and south aisle with boarded and ceiled barrel vault roofs. Arcade of chamfered piers, pointed arches chamfered in 2 orders. Stained glass: East window dated 1948. Chancel with fine display of Minton floor tiles; sedilia and piscina. Replica medieval font. The C13 parish church was described as ruinous in 1638 and between the mid C18 and early C19 the parish of Aldrington was deserted. If anything of the medieval church remained in the 1870s, it did not survive the rebuilding. The North aisle planned in 1936 was not built. (Dale A: Brighton Churches: 1989-).
Listing NGR: TQ2659005250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dale, A, Brighton Churches, (1989)
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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