Architectural Features
Early Cl5 screen with wide single-light divisions with ogee arches.
C17 octagonal pulpit, panelled with tripartite back-panel and tester with pennants.
St Leonard's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769271 is situated on a hill above the busy A143 road, surrounded by fields and adjoined by the Hall. Hall Farm is a little further to the north with its access road, which also serves as a public footpath, leading past the churchyard. The church has a curiously short tower and it is not known if the top has collapsed at some time or whether the tower was never finished. The nave north windows date from the 13th century. The baptismal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329 is original and has a cover dating from the 16th century. The font cover is contemporary with the fine Jacobean pulpit. The pews were remade during a restoration in Victorian time but they retain the original medieval pew ends, some of them with carved faces > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769305. The rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769288 is original also but most of the paint has at some time been removed from the panels. The remains of a 13th century wallpainting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769321 can be seen on the south wall. Some of the windows contain fragments of medieval glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769318 dating from the 14th century.
Some C15 bench ends with fleurons in border and poppy-heads.
Cl5 octagonal font with angels with shields against bowl and 4 lions against stem.
St Leonard's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769271 is situated on a hill above the busy A143 road, surrounded by fields and adjoined by the Hall. Hall Farm is a little further to the north with its access road, which also serves as a public footpath, leading past the churchyard. The church has a curiously short tower and it is not known if the top has collapsed at some time or whether the tower was never finished. The nave north windows date from the 13th century. The baptismal font is original and has a cover dating from the 16th century. The font cover is contemporary with the fine Jacobean pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769302. The pews were remade during a restoration in Victorian time but they retain the original medieval pew ends, some of them with carved faces > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769305. The rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769288 is original also but most of the paint has at some time been removed from the panels. The remains of a 13th century wallpainting > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769321 can be seen on the south wall. Some of the windows contain fragments of medieval glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769318 dating from the 14th century.
South door with fleurons on the battens C15 door to tower stairs with traceried head.
Wall paintings probably early C14, on south wall at high level.
Fragments of old glass in chancel windows.