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St Leonard

St Leonard

Wortley

South Yorkshire

Of Medieval origin, tower rebuilt by John Platt in 1753-4 (Colvin,p641) rest rebuilt c1815 and later in C19.

Architectural Features

Moulded priests' door to left of reset C14 3-light window with reticulated tracery now lighting south chapel.

East window of 3 lights with smaller dividing lights in Perpendicular style with Tudor-arched heads.

Numerous wall monuments to the Stuart Wortley family of Wortley Hall the finest being those: on south side of east window to Mary Wortley d. 1794 by Regnart

C19 wall monument to same family on north wall of nave

also one to Benjamin Newton, schoolmaster Details of monuments in Pevsner (p559).

3 hatchments over south door.

H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1800, 1978 N. Pevsner, B.O.E. 1976 Ed.