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St Leonard

Watlington

Oxfordshire

C12 and C14, much rebuilt by H.J. Tollit and E. Dolby in 1877: C15 west tower

Architectural Features

Late C19 tile roof with decorative ridge tiles

Corner buttresses with gablets flank early C14 Reticulated east window with C19 mullions

South-east aisle has 2 Decorated-style windows and one C15 window of 4 lights with central colonette

North-east aisle has early C14 Decorated window

Nave has north aisle with 2-light trefoil-headed windows, and south aisle with C15 style ogee-headed windows, offset buttresses and gargoyles, and C14 two-light west window: pointed chamfered doorway to south porch, moulded pointed doorway to C19 double doors

C15 west tower has offset corner buttresses, pointed moulded doorway to late C19 double doors with 3-light Perpendicular window over

Capitals with volutes and part of a cable-moulded shaft west end of south aisle, and south wall of chancel which also has C13 carved head

C12 arch and diapered tympanum in vestry (removed from north wall of nave). Two C15 arches to south chapel have shafted responds and central pier with capitals

South chapel has brass chandelier (purchased 1778), C18 chest and wall tablet, wall tablet to William Buckland, d.1597, and Harding family slab in floor dated l691

Nave has brass to Jerem Ewes, d.1587, in south-east corner, late C19 brass lectern, octagonal marble font with cover of 1897 and wood pulpit of 1874

C14 four-bay arcade, with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers, to south aisle which has C14 tomb recess

Stained glass: east window, south chapel windows (1887), west window (1896), and 3 south aisle windows (1902) are by Kempe

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