Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083372
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083372
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, RECTORY 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, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beeford
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 12904 54379
Details
TA 15 SW BEEFORD RECTORY LANE (east side)
11/5 Church of St Leonard
20/9/66 - II *
Church. C13 with possible earlier origins, C15 aisles and south porch, C15 west tower, C19 vestry. Ashlar, coursed rubble and cobbles, brick, roughcast, slate roofs. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with north chapel and vestry. West tower of 3 stages with chamfered plinth and string courses and pinnacled diagonal buttresses. Quatrefoil window to first floor. 2-light belfry openings with transoms and Perpendicular tracery under pointed heads with hood-moulds. Pierced parapet with 8 diagonally-set crocketed pinnacles. 3-light west window with brattished transoms and Perpendicular tracery under pointed head with hood- mould with grotesque stops. Niche above with figure of St Leonard on raised base under nodding ogee canopy with foliated finial. Nave: two 3-light windows with C19 tracery in Perpendicular style in hollow-chamfered flat- headed openings. Pointed south door with continuous hollow-chamfer and roll-mouldings under hood-mould with human face stops. Stepped brick eaves cornice, raised coped parapet. South porch: low chamfered plinth and diagonal buttresses, pointed 4-centred arch to doorway with continuous mouldings. Hollow-chamfered cornice, battlemented parapet with gable finial. Quatrefoil opening to west wall. Chancel: 3-light window to west with Perpendicular tracery in pointed head under hood-mould with human head stops. 2-light window to centre with Decorated tracery in chamfered square- headed surround, paired trefoil-headed lancets to east. Elliptical-headed priest's door with continuous chamfer. 3-light east window with C19 tracery in Perpendicular style in pointed arch under hood-mould with human head stops. Raised coped gable with cross finial. Interior: C15 arcades to nave with octagonal piers, on chamfered bases, and moulded capitals supporting pointed double chamfered arches. Chancel: west jamb of rear-arch to blocked lancet window in north wall, C13 trefoil-headed sedilium, and piscina with roll-moulded pointed head, to south wall. C15 octagonal font on octagonal pier with moulded cap and hollow-chamfered base. C14 effigy of priest, formed in an ogee canopy, at west end of nave; monumental brass to Thomas Tonge, Rector, 1472, at east end of chancel.
Listing NGR: TA1290454379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166864
- 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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