Description

SD 73 SW PADIHAM CHURCH STREET (north side)

3/32 Church of St. Leonard
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- II

Anglican church. 1866-69 by Angelo Waddington of Burnley, using motifs from
the Perpendicular style. Hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and
steeply pitched slate roofs. Cruciform plan with aisles to 4-bay nave and
l-bay chancel, but not to transepts; single storey south porch, similar
north-east vestry and tall stately south-west tower. Nave has clerestory;
chancel has not, but has a parapet of pierced quatrefoils. All aisle and
clerestory windows have chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds, two lights and one of
two patterns of panel tracery. Windows in cardinal facades have panel
tracery - varied - and are set in hollow-chamfered reveals under hoodmoulds
and have, respectively, in chancel 5 lights, in south transept 4 lights
above a doorway with a 2-centre arch under a square hoodmould with decorated
spandrels, at west end 4 lights above 3 single lights, and in north transept
arose of 12 lights; in south face of tower the 3-light window of former
baptistery. Angle buttresses with several offsets. Tower of 4 stages
divided by string courses which do not cut across buttresses. Ringers'
chamber has 2 lights per face with one above; above are 4 clockfaces set
into square panels with commemorative inscriptions and exhortatory texts in
spandrels. Belfry stage is slightly set back between panelled angle
buttresses; its louvred openings are of 2 traceried lights and are separated
by diagonally set buttresses. Battlements are articulated by 4 minor
pinnacles and 4 corner turrets with spirelets. Interior: built of sandstone
ashlar with Perpendicular details. Nave arcades have octagonal piers with
moulded capitals, though arches to transepts and chancel have engaged shafts
with leaf corbels to carry the outer order of the arch. Steeply pitched
hammer-beam roof with pierced spandrels carried on long wall shafts
supported by angel corbels. Early C16 octagonal font (said to have been
donated by John Paslew, last Abbot of Whalley) which has panels carved with
emblems of the Passion, monograms IHS and M, and a shield charged with 3
mullets; font-cover is modern but in keeping. Several memorial tablets to
the Starkie family of Huntroyde (who contributed generously to the building
of the church), of which the most noteworthy is on north wall of chancel; in
the form of a stele representing a seated woman holding an urn and an angel
pointing upwards, it is by Francis Gibson and commeorates Le Gendre Starkie
Esquire who died in 1822. An elegantly modelled church, which dominates the
skyline of the town.

Listing NGR: SD7927234011

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531368

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