List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
List Entry Number: 1121876
Location
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cumberland
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Wetheral
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 01-Apr-1957
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 77738
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History
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Details
NY 45 NE
6/156
WETHERAL
WARWICK
Church of St Leonard
II*
Church. C12, with alterations 1869 by R.J. Withers and 1908-9 by J.H.
Martindale. Dressed red sandstone walls, graduated slate roof with decorative
ridge tiles and coped gables. Nave of 3 bays with porch, chancel of one bay
with semicircular apse. Nave has projecting gabled porch to west with south
facing entrance, dated 1908. Nave has battered plinth, with 2 light and single
pointed lancets of 1869. Stone corbelled bellcote to west gable. Similar
chancel windows with angle buttress having rebus of Prior Thornton of Wetheral,
of early C16. Apse has 13 niches between square pilasters with rounded arches,
pierced by 3 small round-headed lancets. Chancel roof carried over vestry,
projecting from the north wall, dating from 1869. Interior has former tower
arch, which Pevsner dates to c1130, having engaged columns of 2 orders, with
scallop capitals and rounded moulded arch. Barrel vaulted plank ceiling to nave
and chancel, with plastered walls. C19 font and small stone pulpit. Windows
have diamond and square leaded panels of coloured glass, with aid-C19 figurature
stained glass to west window and apse. Various references are made to the
former tower, now demolished. This was a chapel belonging to the Priory of
Wetheral and later to the Dean & Chapter of Carlisle. See Pevsner, Buildings of
England, (C & W volume) p.198.
Listing NGR: NY4660056800
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967), 198
Map
National Grid Reference: NY 46600 56800
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