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St Leonard

St Leonard

Little Downham

Cambridgeshire

Tower C12 with C19 fourth stage replacing an earlier structure (W. Cole).

Architectural Features

C12 door reset in early C13 south aisle.

Nave, aisles and chancel C13 unbuttressed, with walls repaired and partly rebuilt C19.

C14 windows in chancel and aisles restored or replaced C19.

Porch rebuilt C19 with C15 arch re-used.

Two restored two-light aisle windows and two two-light chancel windows C14, with square headed arches and labels.

South porch with C15 four-centred moulded arch qv.

South door rebuilt with two-centred arch, with two carved heads of inner order of mask ornament of clunch, possibly C13

jambs with two chevroned and cabled shafts one to left hand with carved head of the devil.

Door rebuilt C19 with original C13 boards and ironwork.

Tower arch possibly C12 chamfered with moulded label.

piscina C13 with double cinquefoil arch

foiled drains cut by C14 window.

C15 bell stock with curved cross braces in each bay.

Screen, C15.

The church is, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "essentially Transitional or earliest Gothic ... [The arcades] have alternating circular and octagonal piers with the plainest capitals and double-chamfered arches ... Font. Octagonal, Perp, with blank arches against the stem and the coving below the bowl and quatrefoils with rosettes on the sides of the bowl".

Font C15 octagonal with quatrefoil and sunk panel decoration.

The church is, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "essentially Transitional or earliest Gothic ... [The arcades] have alternating circular and octagonal piers with the plainest capitals and double-chamfered arches ... Font. Octagonal, Perp, with blank arches against the stem and the coving below the bowl and quatrefoils with rosettes on the sides of the bowl".

© John Sutton