Listed Building: Church of St. Leonard (14/154)

Church. Built 1864 by E.F. Law at the expense of the 6th Duke of Grafton. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone, limestone dressings and slate roofs. Chancel, vestry, nave and north porch. Geometrical and Decorated styles. Chancel has 3-light east window with Geometrical-style tracery and hood mould and a one-light window to north and south with trefoil to head. Priest's door to north with continuous hollow chamfer and pointed trefoil head innermost, shafts with foliage capitals and pointed arch outermost and hood mould. Small vestry to south with cat-slide roof and 2-light window to south with rectangular chamfered stone surround. 3-bay nave has 2-light Decorated-style windows to north and south and 3-light window to west end with Geometrical-style tracery and hood mould. North door has shafts with foliage capitals in porch with similar doorway and small 4-light windows to east and west sides. Bell-cote to east gable of nave. Diagonal offset buttresses to chancel, off-set buttresses end of nave and between bays. Chamfered plinth, overhanging eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Interior: windows have alternate red and blue bricks to heads. Elaborate carved foliage corbels to chancel arch and converted wall-mounted oil lamps to nave. Oak reredos of 1904. Stain glass window of 1865 to memory of Lady Charles Fitzroy, stain-glass east window of 1903 of Munich glass. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p471; Kelly's Directory for Northamptonshire: 1936).

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