Description

TA 17 SE REIGHTON THE VILLAGE STREET
(north side, off)
Speeton
9/88 Church of St Leonard
30.6.66

GV II*

Church. Early C12, with restorations 1905, 1911, 1976. Squared sandstone
on plinth, with pantile roof. Nave and chancel, west tower. 3-stage,
stepped tower with swept, pyramidal roof. Round-headed bell openings to all
faces of upper stage. C20 door in flat topped opening in south wall with a
variety of windows in enlarged openings to right. A rudimentary mass clock
is scratched into the quoins to the right of the centre window. C19 lancets
Flank tower. No openings to north and east. Interior: early C12 chancel
arch on quoined jambs with chamfered abaci. Two trefoil-headed piscinae in
north chancel wall. To right of sanctuary, a statue niche with carved
bracketed base and a portion of carved canopy, and square projecting alns
box. Portions of Anglo-Danish carving incorporated in masonry at the west
end of the north wall. Norman tub font.

Listing NGR: TA1513574699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540705

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)