Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038044
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- 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:
- 1038044
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- 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:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ipstones
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 01784 50219
Details
IPSTONES C.P. CHURCH LANE, Stocks Green SK 05 SW (north side) 6/216 Church of St Leonard 3.1.67
GV II
Parish church. Constructed 1789-92 at the expense of the Sneyd family, and extended 1902-3 by Gerald Horsley. Sandstone ashlar; part tile, part stone slate roof concealed at eaves by crenellation. Tower, nave with south porch and chancel. Tower: of 3 stages, banded at each stage and with angle buttresses of 4 stages dying into pilasters at bell chamber level and carried up to pinnacles above a crenellated parapet; Y-tracery bell chamber openings formerly taller, now part blocked, 4-light (2 outer now blocked) west window with panel tracery, trefoil lights and Tudor-arched head. Nave: of 4 bays divided by 3-stage buttresses, bands at cill and eaves level; Y-tracery windows; south- west window part-obscured by gabled porch and with oval plaque over dated 1790; further segmental pedimented plaque to south-east bay with fluted urn to tympanum. Chancel: by Horsley of 1902-3; one bay with 3-sided canted east end; angles surmounted by crocketed pinnacles; Tudor arch, 4-light east window with curvilinear tracery and low-relief crucifixion over.
Listing NGR: SK0178450219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274708
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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