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St Leonard

Old Warden

Bedfordshire

C12 origins, predominantly C13, with C14, C15 and C16 details, reworked mid and late C19

Architectural Features

Chancel: C13, E half rebuilt later C19

NW window, SW priest's door and surmounting window are C14

Late C13 chancel arch

Nave: N wall has C15 3-light window flanked by 2 C14 2-light windows with C15 tracery

C14 blocked doorway

Early C14 3-bay pointed-arched arcade to S. S aisle: C14

C15 3-light E window

C16 square-headed 3-light window to SE and W. Embattled parapet

Base of tower, including tower arch, is C12, remainder rebuilt C15

Interior: filled with C16, C17 and C18 carved woodwork, apparently mainly Flemish and English, collected by Robert Henley 3rd Lord Ongley, and installed 1841

Pewing is constructed from variety of C16-C17 Belgian pieces, some with ogee headed panels, some with acanthus scrolls, some in chancel with panels showing letters AC and simple strapwork

Pulpit, installed late C19 by Colonel Shuttleworth, probably C18 Belgian, has high relief biblical scenes and signs of the Evangelists

C14 font, formerly with 12 shafts

To SW of nave is marble monument to Sir Samuel Ongley, d.1726, by P Scheemakers and L Delvaux, with large standing figure in Roman costume flanked by putti

To SE of nave is monument to Caroline Jane Shuttleworth, d.1899

Alabaster and white marble, by C H Mabey, with figure of Faith

NE window of nave has restored C14 glass from Warden Abbey.

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