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St Leonard

Upper Minety

Wiltshire

Entirely C15, restored in 1896

Architectural Features

Chancel has C19 two-light C15 style windows to both sides and a C19 three-light east window all under pointed heads

south doorway with C15 plank door, buttresses and embattled parapet, 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses with set-offs, moulded string courses, north-east polygonal corner stair turret and embattled parapet with corner pinnacles

West face has 3-light recut C15 window to first stage

C15 tie-beam roofs to nave and aisle, C19 tie-beam roof to chancel, compartmented timber roof to north chapel under tower

C15 font at south door with octagonal bowl

fragment of Saxon cross on west window sill

East bay of north aisle has a C15 parclose screen

fine 1627 pulpit with round-arched arcading, backboard and tester

1748 brass candelabra mid-way down nave

C15 rood screen re-assembled

Four wall monuments in chancel to Browne, Pleydell, Browne and Nott families (1705-26)

1731 brass candelabra

Fragments of C15 stained glass to vestry screen

late C19 stained glass to west and south-west nave windows

C17 pyramidal font cap and C17 surplice chest in vestry.

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