Description

ST21SW OTTERFORD CP
OTTERFORD VILLAGE

8/50 Church of St Leonard

25.2.55

GV II*

Parish church. C14, restored, nave wall rebuilt and north aisle added 1860-1, restored 1924. Squared and irregularly
coursed chert stone, limestone and Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. West tower, 3-bay north aisle and
nave, chancel set askew, north-east vestry. Crenellated 2-stage tower, string course and gargoyles, diagonal buttresses
rising to a 2-light cinquefoil headed bell openings, 3-light west window, moulded west doorway with continuous
hoodmould, uncrenellated north-east stair turret; 2-light windows flanking gabled single storey porch, half-glazed
double doors, sundial dated 1826 inscribed 'Our days on the earth are as a shadow", double roll moulded pointed arch
inner doorway with date 1641 scratched on left jamb, offset buttress at junction with chancel, 2-light windows flanking
priests door, 3-light east window, lancet on north front, single storey vestry, 2-light east window to buttressed north
aisle, two 2-light windows to north front, another 2-light at west end. Interior; rendered. Perpendicular panelled
chancel arch, tower arch chamfered in 2 orders, C19 3-bay arcade with corbel faces of king and queen on responds.
Chancel roof: C16 ribbed barrel vault with wallplate, C19 archbraced roof to north aisle and to chancel. Mid C19
fittings, including numbered benches with some sittings designated free, Jacobean altar table, Minton tiled sanctuary;
3 C17 tomb slabs. Tablet to William Brandon of Otterhead House (demolished), died 1854, signed G Wood of Bristol.
Tablet to John Banks, died 1769. (Kellys Directory, 1914).

Listing NGR: ST2223914328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Leonard at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17555697

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)