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St Leonard

St Leonard

Leverington

Cambridgeshire

The lower stages of the tower and part of the south wall and arcading between chancel and south chapel are mid C13, the south aisle

Architectural Features

porch are C14.

The C13 nave was rebuilt in C15 when the north aisle was added.

Particularly noteworthy are the west tower and spire,south porch and the monuments in the south chapel.

Four stage angle buttressing with newel staircases in south west and north west angles.C14 gabled west doorway.

In the gable is a niche with a figure, probably of a priest.

C14 bell stage.

C14 spire of Barnack ashlar with three tiers of gabled spite lights.

Nave, rebuilt C15 of coursed Barnack with low pitch, roof of C19 slates.Clerestory of six windows, each of three cinquefoil lights in four centred heads.

South aisle, C14, with C15 embattled parapet to roof and C15 fenestration of five windows, each of three cinquefoil lights.

Fine south porch with parvise room above, C14, restored 1939.

Niche in gable end, cinquefoil head in ogee arch with ornament and flanked by square piers above a C14 window of two cinquefoil lights in an ogee arch.The outer archway has hollow and roll mouldings in an ogee arch and is flanked by two similar C14 niches.

The interior of the porch is in two bays with quadripartite vaulting springing from attached shafts with embattled capitals.South chapel,C13 origins but rebuilt C14.Three windows, one blocked, others restored.

Chancel, C14.

Doorway to newel staircase with two-centred arch of single chamfered order.Tower arch, C15 of three hollow moulded orders with stiff-leaf foliate capitals on attached shafts with moulded bases.

Nave, north and south arcades of six bays, C15.

The gable end of the C13 roof can be seen in the east wall of the tower.

Chancel, C14 with C15 fenestration to north

south walls and a C13 arcade of two bays between chancel and south chapel.

Sedilia, C14 of three bays.

Communion rail, mid-late C17.

Lectern, late C15, restored.

East window of north aisle, Tree of Jesse, C15,restored 1900.

In south chapel pieta with kneeling saints and donors, C15, reset.

Wall monuments in south chapel.

Thomas Crosse, 1633, John Cross, 1743, Daniel Swain,1782, and Mary his wife,1804.

Font C15.

Octagonal with sides carved with seated figures in niches with cinquefoil heads and crocketed gables.

The soffit of the bowl and the stem and base are also carved