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St Leonard

St Leonard

Newton

Staffordshire

Slate roof to chancel with crested ridge tiles and coped verges.

Architectural Features

Nave: Late C15/16 clerestory windows of three trefoil-headed lights under a 4-centred arch.

recess on South side containing recumbent effigy of a priest, early C13.

Vestry: Tudor arch door to west

FITTINGS: C12 pillar piscina with scalloped bowl

C14 font, octagonal with roll moulded bands

C15 bench ends with carved tracery and poppyheads

C15 rood screen restored by Bodley in 1881, four lights each side of a central opening, frieze and cresting

C19 pulpit attributed to Pugin, octagonal with panelled sides

altar rail, mid-C19, brass.

MONUMENTS: Chancel: Chest tomb, Sir Lewis Bagot died 1534, effigies of Sir Lewis and his 2 wives incised on top

Chest tomb, Thomas Bagot d. 1541, and wife, 2 figures incised on top

chest tomb, Sir Richard Bagot d. 1596 and wife, 2 recumbent effigies, Sir Richard in plate armour, a helmet with goats head crest is hung above the tomb

incised slab on floor to Francis Aston d. 1593 and wife

three late C17/early C18 aedilular wall plaques, one with Ionic columns surmounted by urn spouting flame, looped up curtains to sides, the others have Corinthian columns, foliated brackets and open top pediments containing coats of arms.

Vestry: two wall plaques, Sir Edward Bagot d. 1673, semi-circular head surmounted by coat of arms and flanking cherubs, the other double, Sir Walter Bagot and Dame Jane Bagot, d. 1695, two semicircular headed panels, outer foliated pilasters, gadrooned cornice.