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Latitude: 50.8045 / 50°48'16"N
Longitude: 0.0629 / 0°3'46"E
OS Eastings: 545451
OS Northings: 102580
OS Grid: TQ454025
Mapcode National: GBR LS7.JPC
Mapcode Global: FRA C60Z.491
Plus Code: 9F22R337+R4
Entry Name: Church of St Leonard
Listing Date: 20 May 1949
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197491
English Heritage Legacy ID: 374203
Also known as: St Leonard's Church, Denton
ID on this website: 101197491
Location: Denton, Lewes, East Sussex, BN9
County: East Sussex
District: Lewes
Civil Parish: Newhaven
Built-Up Area: Newhaven
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Denton with South Heighton and Tarring Neville
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Church building
NEWHAVEN
TQ4502 HEIGHTON ROAD, Denton 769-1/5/19 Church of St Leonard 20/05/49
GV II*
Parish church. C13, possibly containing earlier work, embellished and Ewindow added C14, reroofed. restored and vestry added mid-late C19, porch added early C20. Knapped flint, stone dressings, angle buttresses to S corner of chancel, tiled roof, weather-boarded bell-turret. Plan: nave and chancel undivided, bell-turret W end, S porch. W end 3-light window, bell-turret above; S front medieval lancet window, timber-framed porch with mid-C20 door, 2-light windows with rendered surrounds flanking C20 wooden-framed arch-headed window, rood-stair projection with with stair-light adjoining; 4-light Decorated E window; N front 2-light window, vestry with late C20 door on E front, 2-light Tudor arch-headed window, 4-light on W front, 2-light window by blocked N door, lancet beyond. Interior: rendered. Open king-post roof with boarded soffits to chancel. Undivided nave and chancel. Depressed 4-centred arch opening to roodstair opening above, stair extant. Deep splay to window opening with inserted C20 wooden-framed window to E of rood stair. Ogee-headed sedilia with quatrefoil-headed piscina with gabled top. C19-C20 doorway to vestry with lancet beside. Fine Norman font said to be identical to that in St Annes, Lewes; basket weave body with rosettes between narrowbands above, plaited strips below. C19 fittings; stained glass in Ewindow by Kempe, datwed 1897, given in memory of Miss Catt, the principal landowner in Denton who also built the local school (not included). (Buildings of England: Nairn I: Sussex: 1965-).
Listing NGR: TQ4545102580
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