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St Leonards

Catworth

Cambridgeshire

Parish church, largely rebuilt in the late C14 with remains of C13 south aisle

Architectural Features

The fine C15 roofs were restored in 1939 and are noteworthy for the carved head-stops to the main beams.

roofs of lead and plain tiles.

The late C14 tower of 4 stages has an embattled parapet with 4 gargoyles and carved grotesque corbels to the parapet string course, above a frieze of quatre-foils.

The embattled south clerestory has 4 windows of 2 cinquefoil lights in 4-centred arches, and 5 gargoyles.

The south aisle has 3 C14 windows, altered and restored.

The south porch is parapetted with 2 carved gargoyles and a 2-centred archway with attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

The mid C13 doorway has a 2-centred moulded arch of 3 hollow- chamfered orders and jambs of 3 shafts with stiff-leaf foiliage to the capitals.

The C15 oak door has planks with integrated fillet mouldings, original trellis battens, and a slot for the bar.

The C15 chancel has 3 cinquefoil, 2-light windows.

The late C14 chancel arch is 2-centred with wave moulded orders and shafted responds with moulded capitals and bases.

C14 font with plain octagonal bowl.

Fragments of C15 glass in chancel, nave, and south aisle windows.

Oak screen, C15 restored in 1939, pulpit also C15 much restored.

Piscina C13 originally double, reset.

Monuments to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Brudenell 1656, to Dr John Lawton and Rose (Driden) 1710, to Matthew Maddock 1788 by William Cox of Northampton , to Elizabeth Booth 1846 by Maile and Son.