Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318799
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- 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:
- 1318799
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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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:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgehill and Semley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89222 26877
Details
SEMLEY SEMLEY VILLAGE ST 82 NE (south side)
3/184 Church of St. Leonard
GV II
Anglican parish church. 1866-76 rebuilding by T.H. Wyatt, on site of Medieval church. Limestone ashlar, tiled roof. Plan: west tower, nave and south aisle, chancel and south chapel, north porch. Decorated style. Gabled porch has diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed opening with attached shafts with foliated capitals, quatrefoils to sides, coped verges. Nave has 3-light window to right, two 2-light to left; with geometric tracery, buttresses with offsets. Chancel has 2-light, 3-light and single geometric windows, quatrefoil frieze, 3-light geometric east window has hoodmould with foliated terminals, diagonal buttresses, south side has single-light window to right. South chapel has 3-light east windows with hoodmould, angle buttresses, attached vestry has hipped roof with 2-light gablet and porch with pointed chamfered doorway. South aisle has four 2-light Perpendicular-style windows, buttresses, 3-light west window to aisle, set-back buttresses. Five-stage tower has set-back buttresses carried up to gablets at bell stage, string courses, west doorway has moulded pointed opening with attached shafts and aedicule, 4-light geometric window over, gilded clock face to 3rd stage on west and north, single light to south side, bell stage has 2-light louvred windows to all sides, quatrefoil frieze to battlemented parapet with gargoyles. Octagonal stair turret attached to north east corner with roll- moulded pointed doorway and chamfered loopholes to projecting porch to stairs on north side of tower, conical turret roof has gablets with ogee lancets. Interior: Porch has scissor rafter roof, stone benches, moulded pointed inner doorway with double door. Nave has good 4-bay hammer-beam roof with curved windbracing and exposed rafters, plastered walls and polychrome tiled floor. Four-bay south aisle arcade has piers with foliated capitals and moulded pointed arches, arch-braced collar-truss aisle roof with collar trusses to half- bays, organ in west bay. Stair turret projects into west end of nave on corbel, tall pointed tower arch. Chancel arch on short marble corbel shafts with foliated decoration, chancel has ashlar walls and pointed barrel-vaulted ceiling with panelling, Biblical inscriptions to frieze in gothic script, rere-arches to windows. South chapel separated from chancel by pointed door and arch with wrought iron gates and screens, panelled wagon roof, pointed doorway to vestry. Fittings: C19 pews, C12 stone cylindrical font at west end, fine C18 brass candelabra in chancel. Stained glass in north west nave window by F.C. Eden, 1897, south aisle by W.C. Taylor, 1882, good unsigned east window possibly by Lavers and Barraud. Large stone recumbent figure, probably of a bishop in nave, possibly C13, wall tablets include marble to Rev Ralph Ord died 1855 and signed Osmund of Sarum. Rebuilding paid for by Marchioness of Westminster of Fonthill. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST8922226877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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