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St Leonard

St Leonard

Otterford

Somerset

C14, restored, nave wall rebuilt and north aisle added 1860-1, restored 1924.

Architectural Features

Crenellated 2-stage tower, string course and gargoyles, diagonal buttresses rising to a 2-light cinquefoil headed bell openings, 3-light west window, moulded west doorway with continuous hoodmould, uncrenellated north-east stair turret

2-light windows flanking gabled single storey porch, half-glazed double doors, sundial dated 1826 inscribed 'Our days on the earth are as a shadow", double roll moulded pointed arch inner doorway with date 1641 scratched on left jamb, offset buttress at junction with chancel, 2-light windows flanking priests door, 3-light east window, lancet on north front, single storey vestry, 2-light east window to buttressed north aisle, two 2-light windows to north front, another 2-light at west end.

Chancel roof: C16 ribbed barrel vault with wallplate, C19 archbraced roof to north aisle and to chancel.

3 C17 tomb slabs.