Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377636
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377636
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH 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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chelsham and Farleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38862 59118
Details
TQ 35NE CHELSHAM & FARLEIGH C.P. CHURCH LANE, CHELSHAM 3/50 Church of St. Leonard 11.6.58
II
Church. C13 with C15 tower; heavily restored in 1870-1 by Spencer with vestry addition 1904 by H.A. Daniell. Knapped flint with stone dressings, red in herringbone pattern with brick banding courses on south side. Banded plain tiled roof with ridge cresting, wooden shingles to spire. Square tower and spire to west, aisleless nave with gabled porch to south, chancel to east with vestry extension to north. Lancet windows to chancel and tower, Geometrical window to north chancel wall, Perpendicular window to south under hood mould with diamond shaped stops, remaining windows C19. Interior: simple, whitewashed with stone dressings. C15 tower arch, C19 chancel arch. C13 column shaft with upright lancet leaf capital to north east corner of chancel, further column with stiff leaf capital to south east. Fittings: Triangular piscina with stiff leaf decoration to east chancel wall. Former parclose screen c1530 cut down and re-used as chancel screen with thick tracery and turned oolumns. C13 stone font: square bowl on central stem with four corner shafts.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p,146.
Listing NGR: TQ3886259118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 146
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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