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Latitude: 53.0492 / 53°2'57"N
Longitude: -1.9748 / 1°58'29"W
OS Eastings: 401784
OS Northings: 350219
OS Grid: SK017502
Mapcode National: GBR 25B.ZF7
Mapcode Global: WHBCQ.MMT7
Plus Code: 9C5W22XG+M3
Entry Name: Church of St Leonard
Listing Date: 3 January 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1038044
English Heritage Legacy ID: 274708
ID on this website: 101038044
Location: St Leonard's Church, Above Church, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, ST10
County: Staffordshire
District: Staffordshire Moorlands
Civil Parish: Ipstones
Built-Up Area: Ipstones
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Ipstones St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Church building
IPSTONES C.P. CHURCH LANE, Stocks Green
SK 05 SW
(north side)
6/216 Church of St Leonard
3.1.67
GV II
Parish church. Constructed 1789-92 at the expense of the Sneyd family,
and extended 1902-3 by Gerald Horsley. Sandstone ashlar; part tile,
part stone slate roof concealed at eaves by crenellation. Tower, nave
with south porch and chancel. Tower: of 3 stages, banded at each stage
and with angle buttresses of 4 stages dying into pilasters at bell
chamber level and carried up to pinnacles above a crenellated parapet;
Y-tracery bell chamber openings formerly taller, now part blocked,
4-light (2 outer now blocked) west window with panel tracery, trefoil
lights and Tudor-arched head. Nave: of 4 bays divided by 3-stage
buttresses, bands at cill and eaves level; Y-tracery windows; south-
west window part-obscured by gabled porch and with oval plaque over
dated 1790; further segmental pedimented plaque to south-east bay
with fluted urn to tympanum. Chancel: by Horsley of 1902-3; one
bay with 3-sided canted east end; angles surmounted by crocketed
pinnacles; Tudor arch, 4-light east window with curvilinear tracery
and low-relief crucifixion over.
Listing NGR: SK0178450219
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