Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365719
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365719
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, MILL LANE
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, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Leonard
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32799 63877
Details
SE 36 SW BURTON LEONARD MILL LANE (north side)
3/2 Church of St Leonard
GV II
Church. 1878. Ashlar, red clay tile roof. 3-bay nave with south porch and west bellcote, 2-bay chancel. In Gothic style. 2- and 3-light Decorated. traceried windows with hoodmoulds, moulded string at sill level, stepped buttresses to angles and between bays. Double-chamfered arch to porch, blind tracery and a statue in a niche above. Paired 2-light window to west end, 5-light east window. Bellcote with single bell under a pediment surmounted by a cross. Interior: high and wide chancel arch with painted lettering above. The east window has an Ascension scene and is signed , "J. B. CAPRONNIER BRUXELLES FECIT 1879". The church stands on the site of 2 earlier structures, the first completed by 1242, and rebuilt in 1782. The present church was built largely at the expense of Mr James Brown of Copgrove Hall; a notice on the church door indicates that a £60 grant was received from the Incorporated Society for Building of Churches in 1877. H F Diggle, Burton Leonard Church Centenary leaflet, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE3279963877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Diggle, HF , Burton Leonard Church Centenary Leaflet, (1978)
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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