St Leonard

EXTERIOR: south elevation has a 2-light C17 window, 2-lights with elliptical heads, moulded brick jambs and dripmould

To right C14 2-light window with ogee tracery and mouchettes, flat head with moulded dripmould

Chancel windows C13, 1 flat head, 1 lancet either side and above C15 priest's door with low 4 centred arch, blocked with red brickwork with stone panel dated '1889'. Large 2-light C15 window with traceried cusped quatrefoil heads, and flat dripmould, small lancet east window with long and short jambs, single blocked round-arched Norman window on north wall of chancel

North wall of nave has single altered C12 window and early C20 north doorway with red brick jambs

three light C15 west window

INTERIOR: south porch has earlier roof structure than its C18 exterior brickwork, C15 paired rafters originally with pegged collars

South doorway has C12 imposts with rough pilasters with roll moulded caps, and remains of 2 incised mass dials, Barnack stone lintel, semicircular headed arch internally, C14 battened door with original iron hinges and handles

C12 chancel arch with colonnettes and roll moulded round head, internal piers with splayed caps, mutilated at lower level in C18, allegedly to accommodate the box pew of Thomas Hall of Goldings

Paintings on wall of chancel arch discovered 1938, C13 representation of Deposition from the Cross, with figures of the Virgin, Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus, with fragmentary 4 leaf patterns on the opposite wall

Chancel with apsidal end, C12 east window with C13 outer square head and rebated jambs, on north of blocked C12 window, with remains of Anchorite's cell and squint below

On south wall the east inner jamb of the 2-light window is C13, the remainder C15 carried down to form a sedilia

Piscina C13 with roll moulded pointed arch, with sill formed from part of stone coffin lid

At east end panel of C14 encaustic tiles, recovered when the C18 vault, dug for the families of Goldings, was opened in 1882

MONUMENTS: John Byde 1665 Alderman and Sheriff of London, mural tablet with broken scrolled pediment, reset from Shoreditch church 1736, William Stanton artist

3 framed hatchments, 2 in nave, 1 in chancel

The church was held by the de Tany family in C12, and was given to the Priory of Bermondsey, remaining their property until the Dissolution

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 49-50