St Leonard

nave arcades, aisles, and W part of chancel early C13

NE sacristy and E part of chancel early C14

clearstorey, nave roof, upper stage of tower, short spire and its massive angle buttresses, the rood-stair at NE corner of nave and N and S porches C15

Much SPAB type tile repair to stonework

Exterior of some clearstorey windows a pioneering use of stone-dust faced fibre-glass

Steep old red tile roofs to S aisle, chancel and sacristy (hipped), low pitched metal roofs elsewhere

Small door to sacristy further to E, and in a blocked archway within altar rails a large neo-classical monument in veined grey marble signed 'JOHN FLAXMAN FECIT 1782' in form of a large tablet with 2 panels of inscription and reclining figures of Hope and Faith with slender fluted urn between

Renewed 4-lights E window with traceried head in C14 Dec. style

To E are stepped C14 sedilia of 2 and one seats with cinquefoil ogee heads, the latter with spandrels

On wall above this an alabaster and marble wall monument to Sir Bartholomew Fouke d.1604 with kneeling figure at prayer desk under round arch with panelled pilasters, full entablature, broken pediment and armorial achievement

Wide C14 chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, with Perp C15 oak rood-screen of 5 bays the central a cinquefoil cusped opening

C17 oak altar table

Brasses in chancel floor to John Oudeby rector 1414 in vestments with ogee canopied niche above

C15 figure of man, wife and 4 children

Nave of same width as Norman nave of 1:3 proportion

6-bays early C13 arcades erected on inner edge of older foundations

NE respond cut back and arch widened in C15 for access to rood stair

4 clearstorey 2-light cinquefoil windows to each side square-headed externally, in 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th bays from E. Low-pitched C15 open timber roof of 6 bays

Stone corbels of angels with shields support wall-posts and long curved braces to heavy cambered chamfered tie-beams

6-sided oak pulpit of 1698 with bolection-moulded panels and low pedestal

Wall paintings: lower parts of 4 large Apostles C13 in red ochre: upper walls have Three Living and Three Dead Kings and very large St

Christopher C15

Christ in Glory on a rainbow and Doom of C15 over chancel arch, possibly over earlier paintings

N aisle has C15 E window of 2 cinquefoil lights and a similar window to each side of N porch

3-light C14 Dec taller window with ogee reticulated tracery lighting altar of former Beauchamp Earls of Warwick in chantry in 2 E bays of aisle

Wall paintings mid C14 fragments of 6 subjects of Passion from New Testament

2 hatchments of Sebright family on N wall

Early C15 tomb chest under arcade with stone effigies of man and woman under a single ogee canopy

Narrower S aisle has 2 3-lights windows in the E part restored in a length of wall rebuilt in 1693, and a C15 window of 3 cinquefoil lights to the W part

Original iron railings with figure of surviving child

On S wall nearby wall monument to Richard Pearce d.1800 in white marble with panel between moulded consoles, urn finial, and armorial apron

2 hatchments on wall

Royal arms at W end

3 late medieval oak benches at W. The W tower, 17ft square internally, has a wide C12 depressed semi-circular E arch with chamfered label and imposts, underbuilt in late C13 with a pointed arch of 3 moulded orders and half-octagonal responds, with a consecration cross on S jamb

C15 pointed moulded W doorway with contemporary 2-lights pointed window over, with quatrefoil in head

C15 added top bell stage with walls set-in on outside above moulded string, and 2 cinquefoil light square headed bell opening in each face

2 hatchments in base of tower

Square N porch C15, gabled with 2-centred opening with hollow-chamfered and plain chamfered orders without imposts

The 2-storeys sacristy, now the vestry, on N side of chancel is 16ft x 9ft internally with diagonal corner buttresses has a narrow C14 square headed window on E and 2 symmetrically on each floor on N wall, with fireplace between on ground floor

Octagonal stone font repaired 1852. (I V Bullard Flamstead its Church and History (1902):