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St Leonard

Berwick St Leonard

Wiltshire

C12, C14, rebuilt 1860

Architectural Features

South side of chancel has C19 plain chamfered pointed doorway, 3-light C14 east window with intersecting tracery, coped verge with cross finial, north side has C19 two-light square-headed window

North side of nave has two C19 two-light square headed windows, blocked C12 round-arched doorway with tympanum and lintel with rosettes

West end has C14 three-light window with intersecting tracery, diagonal buttresses and coped verge with cross finial

over is beaded circular tablet with relief-carved Agnus Dei

said to be C12

C19 octagonal stone pulpit

C12 cylindrical stone font with brass cover

Plain chamfered chancel arch with chamfered square responds, chancel has C19 roof with 2 collar trusses and tesselated floor, large C19 ogee-headed piscina on south wall, east window with grissaille-style glass flanked by prayer boards

Fine baroque marble wall monument on north wall of nave to George Howe died 1647

relief-carved demi-figures of George Howe and his wife Dorothy

with demi-figures of children in oval recess below

Photo coming soon