Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374950
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374950
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, VICARAGE 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, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Priors Marston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48924 57601
Details
PRIORS MARSTON VICARAGE LANE SP4857 (South side) 12/141 Church of St. Leonard 30/05/67
GV II
Church. Late C13 origins; aisle widened C14. Tower remodelled or entirely rebuilt c.1720. Nave and porch largely rebuilt 1863 and chancel rebuilt 1865 by Spragg and Joyce. Ironstone with limestone dressings: aisle of coursed rubble; nave of squared coursed rubble; chancel, vestry, and porch regular coursed; tower of ashlar. Tile roofs have ridge cresting and coped gable parapets; stone stack. Chancel, nave, north aisle, north vestry, west tower, south porch. 2-bay chancel and 5-bay nave. Chancel has splayed plinth. Diagonal and south buttresses with 2 offsets. 3-light east window has hood mould and head stops. 2 south and one north 2-light windows. Geometrical tracery throughout. North side has chimney above vestry. South porch has splayed plinth. Low angle buttresses flush with front. Doorway of 2 moulded orders. Door with Gothic open work panels and grille. Square-headed 2-light windows with stop-chamfered jambs. Inside late C13 moulded south doorway has hood mould with return stops. Ribbed and studded door with old strap hinges. Nave has angle and south buttresses with 2 offsets. Two 2-light windows east of porch, and lancet and 2-light window west of porch, all with plate tracery. Vestry has splayed plinth. Angle buttresses. East paired trefoiled lancets, and circle with cross, under segmental pointed arch. Lean-to roof. Aisle has diagonal, 2 north and west angle buttresses. Chamfered Tudor arch north doorway of c.1500 has C19 plank door. 3 late C14 two-light straight-headed Decorated north windows, partly renewed. 2-light west window has basket-arched lights. Tower of 2 stages has high splayed plinth. West angles have giant clasping Tuscan piers. String course. Round-arched south door and west window with Y-tracery and transom. Second stage has 2 small round-arched west windows. Bell-openings similar to west window. Clock faces to north and south. Cornice and parapet of 3 panels, Interior: plastered walls. Chancel has segmental -pointed rere arches. Arched braced roof with naturalistic foliage corbels. Early English style chancel arch of 3 plastered orders. Nave has 5-bay partly late C13 arcade of low, wide arches of 2 chamfered orders and octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Hammerbeam roof and scissor braces. Fittings: mid 1860's; reredos 1868. Stained glass: late C19. Monuments: north aisle: Bradshaw family 1770 etc. Neoclassical wall monument. Porch floor: brass 1688. Inscriptions to Elizabeth and Richard West (1691). (V.C.H. Warwickshire: Vol. 5 pp 140-141; Buildings of England: Warwickshire p.377).
Listing NGR: SP4892457601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 140-141
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 377
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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