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St Leonard

Yarpole

Herefordshire

Early C14, restored and extended 1864 by Sir G G Scott.

Architectural Features

Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and tile roofs.

C14 nave and south porch, C19 north aisle and chancel.

Bay to west of centre contains south porch, mostly rebuilt in C19, with a C14 window of one ogee trefoil light in each side wall.

North aisle: C19, with a C14 window reset in west wall.

C14 chancel arch, two centred and of two chamfered orders, the responds with moulded capital and base.

Roof of nave of five bays with C15 crown post trusses, common rafter couples have collars with scissor-braces.

Fittings: the font probably C13 with octagonal bowl, the splayed lower part having segmental moulded arches, on a C19 stem and base. (RCHM, 3, p 215