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St Leonard

St Leonard

Downham

Lancashire

Church, 1910 by Sir Mervyn McCartney, with west tower of late C15th.

Architectural Features

The tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets and an oversailing embattled parapet with corner pinnacles and with 2 gargoyles on both the north and south sides.

The west window has a pointed Tudor-arched head with hood, an outer casement moulding, and 3 cinquefoiled lights.

The 2 windows of the south aisle each have 3 cinquefoiled lights under a Tudor-arched head.

The east window is of 5 cusped lights under a Tudor-arched head.

The east window contains glass made by Ralph and Richard Assheton in 1869.

The octagonal sandstone font of early C16th type has sides with shields, blank except for 2, one with the Legs of Man, the other with a chevron between 3 fleurs de lys.

Memorials to the Assheton family include a wall tablet to Frances Annabella by Westmacott, with a seated figure in relief.