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St Leonard

South Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Late C15 for Thomas Danvers, Lord of the Manor

Architectural Features

South wall of nave, with moulded eaves and plinth, has a C14 style porch, sheltering an elaborate 4-centre arched doorway, between 2 square-headed 3-light windows, probably all by Street

The C15 model for the windows is on the north side of the nave

The C15 north aisle has an arched 3-light east window, with Perpendicular tracery, and 3-light square-headed windows to north and west

The 2-stage C15 tower has small openings with labels plus a 2-light arched Perpendicular west window

Stained glass in the north aisle includes C14 and C15 donor figures in the cusped heads above an armorial window entitled "The Genealogie of the family of the Asshehursts", plus C19 glass in the aisle east window

Monuments include a large wall monument to George Croke (died 1641) with a painted demi-figure on an inscribed plinth framed by Corinthian columns supporting an open segmental pediment

also a Baroque cartouche to Francis Hinde (died 1720). The C15 work is attributed by John Harvey to William Orchard. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, pp.227-9

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