Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344635
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- 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:
- 1344635
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22239 14328
Details
ST21SW OTTERFORD CP OTTERFORD VILLAGE
8/50 Church of St Leonard
25.2.55
GV II*
Parish church. C14, restored, nave wall rebuilt and north aisle added 1860-1, restored 1924. Squared and irregularly coursed chert stone, limestone and Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. West tower, 3-bay north aisle and nave, chancel set askew, north-east vestry. Crenellated 2-stage tower, string course and gargoyles, diagonal buttresses rising to a 2-light cinquefoil headed bell openings, 3-light west window, moulded west doorway with continuous hoodmould, uncrenellated north-east stair turret; 2-light windows flanking gabled single storey porch, half-glazed double doors, sundial dated 1826 inscribed 'Our days on the earth are as a shadow", double roll moulded pointed arch inner doorway with date 1641 scratched on left jamb, offset buttress at junction with chancel, 2-light windows flanking priests door, 3-light east window, lancet on north front, single storey vestry, 2-light east window to buttressed north aisle, two 2-light windows to north front, another 2-light at west end. Interior; rendered. Perpendicular panelled chancel arch, tower arch chamfered in 2 orders, C19 3-bay arcade with corbel faces of king and queen on responds. Chancel roof: C16 ribbed barrel vault with wallplate, C19 archbraced roof to north aisle and to chancel. Mid C19 fittings, including numbered benches with some sittings designated free, Jacobean altar table, Minton tiled sanctuary; 3 C17 tomb slabs. Tablet to William Brandon of Otterhead House (demolished), died 1854, signed G Wood of Bristol. Tablet to John Banks, died 1769. (Kellys Directory, 1914).
Listing NGR: ST2223914328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1914)
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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