British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

SE 66 NW FARLINGTON -

3/1 Church of St Leonard

17.5.1960

- II

Church. Circa 1200 (Pevsner, p.160) with probably-C16 and later alterations and
C19 restoration. Rubble brought to course, Welsh slate roof. Single 3-bay
vessel, the nave and chancel in one with north porch and west bellcote.
Chamfered plinth. South side: buttresses at ends and between bays with
offsets. Quoined, chamfered, round-arched doorway with C19 board door to right
of left bay; on its left a cusped-headed light, and at a higher level to its
right a wide, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround and sunk
spandrels; a similar window of 2 lights to right end. Raised verges, east end
having cross finial, west end having gabled, cross-finialed, bellcote with 2
shouldered-arched bell-hanging openings. East end: 3 narrow, quoined, chamfered
lights, the central one with shouldered head, the outer 2 round-arched. North
side: C19 gabled porch of open timberwork on coursed stone base-wall masking
round-arched south door with deep roll-moulding; C19 buttress at west end; added
vestry at east end, not of special interest, having to its right at high level,
a broad, cusped-headed light with chamfered quoined surround. West end: Of C19
ashlar with central offset buttress flanked by lancets with hoodmoulds.
Interior: C19 crown post roof; trefoil-headed aumbry in sanctuary; octagonal
font with concave sides on circular column. N Pevsner, The Buildings of
England: Yorkshire, the North Riding, (1981 reprint).


Listing NGR: SE6147867488

Source: English Heritage

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