Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1363901
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/00447/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1363901
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1959
- 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:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minety
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00952 91177
Details
SU 09 SW MINETY UPPER MINETY
4/119 Church of St Leonard
28.10.59
GV I
Anglican Parish Church. Entirely C15, restored in 1896. Squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings, ashlar copings and battlements and lead roofs. Nave, chancel, north-west tower, north aisle, south porch. Nave south side of 4 bays with 3-light windows under flat heads and 3-light west window under pointed head; buttresses with set-offs and embattled parapet. North aisle with two 3-light windows under flat heads, buttresses and blocking course to parapet. Chancel has C19 two-light C15 style windows to both sides and a C19 three-light east window all under pointed heads; south doorway with C15 plank door, buttresses and embattled parapet, 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses with set-offs, moulded string courses, north-east polygonal corner stair turret and embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. West face has 3-light recut C15 window to first stage; 2 cusped light bell openings with timber louvres to all faces. Gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses, 2-light windows to side walls and pointed-arched entrance with lozenge stops to hoodmould; sundial to gable apex. Inner recut doorway with panelled and traceried plank door, statue niche above and benches either side; wagon roof. Interior. Four-bay north arcade with concave sided octagonal piers and Tudor arches: 2 statue ledges on inner piers. C15 tie-beam roofs to nave and aisle, C19 tie-beam roof to chancel, compartmented timber roof to north chapel under tower; fine head- corbels to north aisle and chancel, armorial shields to nave. Piscina on chancel south wall. Fittings. Nave and aisle have early Cl7 box pews with knobs; C15 font at south door with octagonal bowl; fragment of Saxon cross on west window sill. East bay of north aisle has a C15 parclose screen; fine 1627 pulpit with round-arched arcading, backboard and tester; 1748 brass candelabra mid-way down nave. C15 rood screen re-assembled; 1627 reader's desk, section of stalls and chair. Four wall monuments in chancel to Browne, Pleydell, Browne and Nott families (1705-26); 1731 brass candelabra. Fragments of C15 stained glass to vestry screen, late C19 stained glass to west and south-west nave windows, central aisle window and aisle east window, chancel east and south- east window. C17 pyramidal font cap and C17 surplice chest in vestry. (Aubrey & Jackson, Wiltshire Collections, 1862; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: SU0095291174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315741
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Aubrey, , Jackson, , Wiltshire Collections, (1862)
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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