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St Leonard and Attached Boundary Wall

St Leonard And Attached Boundary Wall

Wollaton

Nottinghamshire

Chancel C1200, remodelled C14, nave and tower late C14, north aisle C1500, Willoughby mausoleum and south aisle 1885-87, by Charles Hodgson Fowler.

Architectural Features

East end has a stained glass window, 1886, and an unusual carved wooden reredos, c1660, with columns and broken segmental pediment.

North side has a C19 doorway, then a large monument with an early C20 stained glass window above.

South side has an ogee piscina and single sedilia, C14, and a stained glass window, 1922.

West of the arcade, a stained glass window, C19, 2 lights.

C20 stained glass east window.

2 early C20 stained glass windows, and south door altered to a window.

Fittings include octagonal font, wooden skeleton pulpit and brass lectern, 1886, and mid C20 stalls and benches.

Monuments are unusually numerous, including canopied recess with brasses, slab and cadaver to Richard Willoughby, 1471,

arched recess with tomb chest and effigies to Henry Willoughby and 4 wives, 1528.

The chest has openwork arches and figures, and a cadaver below.

Other Willoughby family monuments include a tablet with urns and vases, 1800, by Sir John Bacon, and another with angels, 1835, by Sir Richard Westmacott.

Tablet with strapwork, 1614, to Robert Smythson, designer of Wollaton Hall (qv).