CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359684
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2001-11-03
Reference:: IOE01/05890/23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359684
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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:: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Chapel St. Leonards
National Grid Reference:: TF 55238 72025

Details

TF 57 SE CHAPEL ST. LEONARDS CHURCH LANE

3/15 Church of St. Leonard 3.2.67 II

Parish church. Rebuilt 1794, chancel built 1866, tower of 1891- 1901 by W. Scorer, enlarged 1924. Ashlar, some red and yellow brick, slate and plain tiled roofs. Western tower, nave, chancel, south porch: 2 stage tower with embattled parapet and pyramidal roof. To the sides are louvred bell openings. In the west wall a 2 light window with cusped tracery and above a similar belfry opening. In the north wall a further 2 light window with beyond 2 semi-circular 1794 windows with key and impost blocks. Nave has brick dentillated eaves course. Gabled yellow brick vestry of 1891 with 2 light traceried window and plain chamfered doorway to the east. The ashlar chancel has a single lancet to the north, 2 to the south and in the east wall a 5 light panel traceried window. In the south wall of the nave are 2 two light Cl9 flowing traceried windows. The gabled south porch has a chamfered outer doorway with moulded hood and matching inner door. Beyond is a further Cl9 2 light window. Interior. Single chamfered tower arch and semi-circular chancel arch. In the chancel a semi-circular opening to the vestry. The nave roof is a king post with struts, possibly re-used. Cl9 circular ashlar font and panelled pulpit. The church was rebuilt after flooding in 1572 and again in 1794 by Churchwarden Robert Empingham on former foundations.

Listing NGR: TF5523872025

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Legacy System number:: 196016
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.