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St Leonard

St Leonard

Abingdon

Oxfordshire

C13: late C15 tower, south transept and fenestration: west porch built 1571 for Bishop Jewel

Architectural Features

lead roof, except old tiles to chancel roof

Late C13 three-light east window: 2-bay side walls of chancel have C15 ogee-headed windows, divided by offset buttress to south

C15 south transept has 3-light cinquefoil-headed windows except early C16 three-light segmental-arched west window

2-bay south wall of nave has similar C15 windows with restored mullions and heads flanking blocked C13 two-light window without mullion: north wall of nave has similar C15 windows

C15 three-stage transeptal north tower: C15 one-, 2- and 3-light windows and crenellated parapet with gargoyles

Fine medieval-style floor tiles depict Revelations Chapter 4. C16 collar truss with king stud, and chancel arch of c.1902

Nave has Jacobean pulpit, C15 octagonal pulpit and C17 bench-ends with huge poppyheads similar to those at Radley Church (q.v.). C16 five-bay roof has arch braces springing from vertical side struts into which are tenoned hollow-chamfered purlins with jowled ends

C15 hollow-chamfered arch to north tower, which has narrow C15 doorway to stairs

Similar double-chamfered arch to north transept which has C15 five-bay parclose screen with foiled heads and early C18 panelled double-leaf doors

Monuments: memorial reset in chancel floor to Margaret Fell, widow of Dean of Christ Church, d.1657, and others of the Fell family

Late C17 plain oval wall tablet to Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, d.1632, and her children: late C17 epitaph to their in-laws, the Baskervilles

Stained glass: mainly 1902