Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, EDGCOTT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332808
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, EDGCOTT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332808
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, EDGCOTT 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, EDGCOTT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grendon Underwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 67720 20985
Details
SP 62 SE GRENDON UNDERWOOD EDGCOTT ROAD
1/77 Church of St. Leonard
21.12.67
GV II*
Parish church. C12-C13 nave with early C13 S. door and C15 alterations, late 013-early C14 chancel, C15 W. tower, restored 1866 and 1902. Coursed rubble stone, the nave partly with slobbered rendering. Lead roofs to nave and tower, tiled chancel. W. tower of 2 stages has moulded plinth, battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses and stair turret at S.E. corner. 2-light traceried openings to bell chamber with small cusped windows below to N. and S. W. side has 3-light cusped window and door in 4-centred arch with cusped spandrels. Nave has moulded ashlar parapet, moulded plinth to part of S. wall and off-set buttresses. 2 2-light windows to N., one with Y tracery, the other with cusped lights. S. wall mostly rebuilt C15 with 2 3-light windows. Early C13 S. doorway, much worn, has moulded arch, the outer order with fragments of elaborate fleurons and stiff leaf capitals, the shafts missing. Hoodmould with worn carved head stops, wrought iron lamp bracket above. Chancel has 3 windows with Y tracery to S., one to N., and C19 5-light traceried window to E. Early C20 N. vestry. Interior: moulded tower arch. C15 nave roof with moulded purlins and tie beams, the tie beams on curved braces with cusped tracery in spandrels. Cusped piscina in S. wall. Continuously double chamfered arch to chancel. Chancel has moulded sill course and window arches. Large cusped piscina with finials, the left finial removed to make way for monument. Fittings: C15 octagonal font, reworked; early C17 hexagonal pulpit with arcaded panels; other fittings C19. Monuments: marble wall monument to John Pigott of Doddershall, J.P., d.1751, signed P. Scheemakers, with carved figure of deceased in a toga semi-reclining below medallion portrait of his dead son, the rear panel with surround of fluted Corinthian pilasters and broken pediment; pair of coloured marble wall monuments flanking altar, to Christobella Viscountess Saye and Sele 1789 and her second husband Richard Fiennes 1781, each with dado, fan motifs flanking oval inscription panel, and obelisk with carved figure and an urn; marble wall tablet to Harriet Lamb 1785; other C18 oval inscription panels. RCHM II p. 130-131.
Listing NGR: SP6772020985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42458
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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