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St Leonard

St Leonard

Brinkhill

Lincolnshire

C12, c.1200, c.1384, chancel C15, restoration of 1871-2 by James Fowler.

Architectural Features

3 stage late C14 tower with corner buttresses, bell moulded plinth, chamfered offsets, battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles.

In the west wall a 3 light late C14 window with ogee heads to the lights and panel tracery.

Continuously moulded C15 inner doorway with hood and C18 panelled door.

The north wall of the nave has single 2 and 3 light C15 windows, with panel tracery, concave moulded surrounds and hoods.

In the south wall of the south chapel a 2 light C19 window also with C14 reveals.

In the west wall is a doorway comprising a re-used mid C12 round arched head with billet moulded hood, said to come from Calceby

C15 reveals with square hollow chamfer and fleurons, with human heads.

Interior. c.1200 3 bay south arcade, round piers and responds, some stiff leaf foliage on the capitals.

Late C14 tower arch, double chamfered and dying to the reveals.

Chancel arch has c.1200 annular responds now with double chamfered pointed arch.

In the chancel south wall are 2 similar C14 arches with stop chamfers and octagonal pier.

In the south window of the south chapel are reset panels of C17 Flemish painted glass.

TF3675 : Font, St Leonards' church, South Ormsby

Fittings are all C19 apart from the fine font with panelled octagonal traceried stem, the bowl has angel supporters and on the sides are shields with Symbols of the Passion, and the Virgin Mary set in cusped roundels.

TF3675 : Font, St Leonards' church, South Ormsby

© Julian P Guffogg

Monuments.

Sir William Skipwith (1417 - 1482) son of Sir Thomas Skipwith and Margery Fitzhugh, married Joan Mortimer and Agnes Constable (featured here).
 
He had a son John (d.1469), and daughters Alice and Joan, these are shown below on the brass.

On a panel in the south aisle wall a brass to Sir William Skipwith, d. 1482 showing the deceased and wife beneath crocketed and pinnacled canopies with children beneath.

Sir William Skipwith (1417 - 1482) son of Sir Thomas Skipwith and Margery Fitzhugh, married Joan Mortimer and Agnes Constable (featured here). He had a son John (d.1469), and daughters Alice and Joan, these are shown below on the brass.

© Julian P Guffogg

Also a female brass, half life size, with dog.

Also 2 early C19 white marble plaques, one with a pedimented top, the other a draped female mourning figure before a broken Corinthian column, by Westmacott.