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St Leonard

Keevil

Wiltshire

C13, C15 and early C16, 1860s and c1910 restorations

Architectural Features

Early C16 south aisle has blind east wall

battlemented parapet with gargoyles

Three stage west tower with low C19 porch with original Tudor-arched doorway within, set back buttresses and string courses, middle stage has arrowloops, bellstage has 3-light Perpendicular windows with pierced stone louvres, cornice with gargoyles to battlemented. parapet polygonal stair turret with arrowloops on south east corner

Tall moulded tower arch with C20 wooden screen, 1715 Royal Arms hung in tower

Other fittings: C19 stone polygonal pulpit

C15 octagonal font bowl on pier with four shafts by north door

Some good C19 stained C19 glass in chancel and chapels, unsigned

Monuments: C17 and C18 tablets in-chancel include pedimented tablet with heraldic arms and volutes to John Harris died 1657

Several small brass plaques in church, such as one in north chapel to Elizabeth Gaisford died 1720

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