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St Leonard

St Leonard

Bledington

Gloucestershire

C12, C13, C14

Architectural Features

C15.

A carved face on an inside wall above the columns in Bledington church.

C13 chancel, south wall: 2-light stone-mullioned cinquefoil window with stopped hood and carved spandrels.

A carved face on an inside wall above the columns in Bledington church.

© Philip Halling

C13 three-light stepped lancet with trefoil-headed lights and stopped hood.

original single light lancet in north wall of chancel, 2-light C14 window with trefoil head and quatrefoil left.

Nave, buttressed north wall lit by four C15 rectangular 2 and 3-light windows with moulded stone mullions and cinquefoil heads with Perpendicular tracery.

Two stage C14 tower with strings between stages and projecting stair turret up north-west corner.

3-light C14 window with reticulated tracery under a relieving arch in west wall, trefoil-headed single light above, 2-light stone- mullioned belfry window above, similar window on south, large diamond shaped clock with black figures on a white background and the initials and date V.R. 1891 on north.

Buttressed south aisle, rebuild C15, 3-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery at west end.

3-light, C15 window left and far right of porch similar to those in north wall.

String above windows with gargoyle at corner, moulded capping to aisle parapet with scratch sundial on diagonally set block at south-west corner.

Buttressed C13 porch

Hood over window at east end of south aisle continued over C15 three-light rectangular window with Perpendicular tracery in south wall of C15 passage squint/chantry.

Flat gable-end coping to chancel and porch with upright cross finial on gable end of chancel and C12 bellcote comprising two round-arched openings on rectangular piers with quarter columns at corners, flat gable-end coping to gable, upright cross finial at apex.

Interior: early plank door with C19 decorative hinges in heavily moulded, pointed surround with moulded hood and carved head stops.

3 bay C12 nave arcade with squat round piers with roll mouldings around each capital, octagonal abaci and pointed double-chamfered arches.

15th century medieval stained glass windows in St Leonard's church, Bledington.

C15 painted glass possibly by John Prudde of Westminster, in east windows of passage squint/chantry and in windows in nave north wall, some nearly complete panels.

15th century medieval stained glass windows in St Leonard's church, Bledington.

© Philip Halling

C13 Chancel

C13 piscina with trefoil head and scroll moulded hood over in south wall.

C15 cambered moulded tie beams supported by wall posts on corbels.

A plain Norman tub font on St Leonards church, Bledington.

C12 stone tub-shaped font at west end of south aisle.

A plain Norman tub font on St Leonards church, Bledington.

© Philip Halling

Pews replaced 1904 some C15 bench ends with decorative blind tracery retained.

SP2422 : St Leonard, Bledington: pulpit

C20 wooden pulpit in north east corner of nave with pierced tracery.

SP2422 : St Leonard, Bledington: pulpit

© Basher Eyre

C17 communion rail with turned balusters.

C17 altar table.

Five C17 bells one C19 bell.

Bell on floor of passage squint/chantry dated 1639 by James Keene of Woodstock.