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St Leonard

St Leonard

Chelwood

Somerset

Norman origin, C14, tower rebuilt 1772, largely restored and rebuilt c.1860 by G.J. Norton.

Architectural Features

moulded string courses, gargoyle and water chute at each corner, parapet and coping, roof has small lucarne to each side and cockerel weathervane.

Interior: tall pointed tower arch, chamfered, 3-bay south arcade with cylindrical columns on plain plinths, C14 corbel east and west, vine leaves over a female head to east, fig leaves to west

Chancel has arched-brace and collar roof, moulded collar purlin with one carved angel at west end, braces rising from wooden corbels on wall-plate

high pointed chamfered chancel arch, pointed arched opening to vestry, filled by organ, aumbry to north, elaborate carved stone and marble C19 reredos.

Fittings: Norman font in nave, tiny volutes at edges and top frieze

late C19 pews, pulpit and screen across south aisle arch

stone hatchment in tower recording gifts to the parish by William Adams, 1815, by Reeves and Son of Bath

Monuments in tower: marble tablet to Mrs. Elizabeth Cottle, spinster of Nevis, West Indies, 1838, by H. Wood of Bristol

marble monument with draped urn to Martha Adams, 1795, by Reeves and Son of Bath.

Fragments of C16 Flemish glass in south aisle windows, with inscriptions in Old French, other windows lattice glazed.