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Saint Leonard

Saint Leonard

Pitcombe

Somerset

Cl5 tower, remainder rebuilt 1858.

Architectural Features

Nave has recessed C15 style traceried windows in South wall

Tower of 4 stages, with full height angled offset corner buttresses, plinth string courses, crenellated parapets with corner pinnacles, middle and corner gargoyles

above, cutting into second stage, a 3-light C15 traceried window in slight recess, string course angled as label

to all faces stage 4 a 2-light C15 traceried window with timber louvres

Interior mostly in a late C13 style.

Norman tub font set on later base

C15 panelled tower arch

fragments of medieval glass in West tower window

Probably of C12 foundation, the church served by monks from Bruton Priory until the dissolution.