LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1321404
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1321404
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LEIGHTON BUZZARD CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leighton-Linslade
National Grid Reference:: SP 91900 24867

Details

LEIGHTON LINSLADE

720/3/1 CHURCH SQUARE 01-MAY-75 LEIGHTON BUZZARD (South side) CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Important medieval parish church. C13 with C15 windows and clerestory. Tower and broach spire 193 feet high. West door has fine late C13 scroll ironwork hinges ascribed to Thomas of Leighton (similar work at Eaton Bray). Carved Cl5 choir stalls with poppy heads and misericordes. C17 altar rails, carved cedar pulpit 1683. Brasses of 1597, l636. C15 vestry with 2 upper storeys north of chancel. Monuments include 2 with effigies, Wyngate 1603 and Welles 1645. Late C19 stained glass by Kempe.

Listing NGR: SP9190024867

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Legacy System number:: 35609
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.