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St Leonard

St Leonard

Eynsham

Oxfordshire

Late C13 chancel and south aisle

Architectural Features

3-bay chancel has late C13 two-light windows and a pointed chamfered priest's doorway to south

Late C13 south aisle, with buttresses: 2-light east window with quatrefoil in head

side wall has, from east, late C13 two-light window with unusual cusped heads, a similar window with cinquefoiled heads, a late C15 studded door set in a square-headed surround with quatrefoils carved in spandrels, and a late C15 three-light window with panel tracery

3-bay late C15 north aisle has fleuron frieze, offset buttresses and 3-light windows with panel tracery

Late C15 four-bay clerestory has gargoyle rainwater spouts, and label moulds over 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows

late C15 five-light west window with panel tracery to nave

Late C15 three-stage tower with string courses and buttresses, and slit lights to stair-turret: 3-light west window and belfry windows

gargoyles to string course beneath crenellated parapet

Interior: chancel has mutilated late C13 statue niche to east: trefoiled piscina to south and early C18 communion rail with turned balusters

Mid C19 chancel arch and king-post nave roof supported on C15 head corbels

Late C17 bolection-panelled pulpit (upper stage only), and C15 octagonal font with traceried panels and frieze of angels

C15 bench at west end of nave has traceried end-panels: other fittings are C20 and late C19

Mid/late C19 south aisle roof on C15 head corbels, and C15 north aisle roof with moulded beams and braces

Wall painting: fragments of a C14 Life of St

Monuments: chancel has wall tablet to James Preston, d.1805

North aisle has reset brasses to John Martin, d.1610, Richard Martin, d.1617, and vicar William Emmot, d.1584

Stained glass: chancel has memorial glass of 1902 and 1930

south aisle windows of 1918 and to west, fragments of C14 and C15 glass including St

National Monuments Record).