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St Leonard

St Leonard

Butleigh

Somerset

C14, much restored and extended mid C19 by J. C. Buckler.

Architectural Features

Coursed and squared lias rubble, some ashlar, freestone dressings, stone-tiled roofs, some clay tiles, moulded stone eaves cornices, coped verges with finials.

North chapel with elaborate North window with a cusped transom, inner reveal carved with vines and heraldic shields.

Plastered interior on encaustic tile and flag floors, elaborate cast-iron heater gratings.

Octagonal C15 font on a shafted base, the panels of the bowl with emblems of the Trinity.

pews with carved ends in C15 style

pulpit

lectern

Three kneeling figures from an Elizabethan tomb to North chapel.

North aisle with a series of memorials to Neville-Grenville family

monument to Thomas Symcocks of 1624 to North chapel

nave with C19 brass plaques

South transept with Hood monuments, the largest by Lucius Gahagan of Bath of early C19 to 3 brothers including Admiral Hood, at its foot relief of a sea battle, shafts each side ascending to an ogee arch. such mid/late C19 stained glass

West window with remains of some medieval glass.