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TF 16 SE KIRKSTEAD off ABBEY LANE (south side) 1/22 Church of St. Leonard 14.9.66 - I Former chapel to Kirkstead Abbey, now Parish church, c.1230-60, restored in 1913-4 by Weir. Limestone ashlar and squared coursed rubble, weatherboarded gable, plain tiled roof with timber bellcote having shaped leaded roof. Single cell plan. West end has large corner buttresses, chamfered string course and central pointed planked double doors with C13 scrolled iron hinges. The doorway is of 3 orders with shafts bearing stiff leaf capitals, moulded outer arch, having dogtooth moulding and to pointed door head also. Hood mould with foliate stops. Above a blind arcade of 3 bays with shafts having stiff leaf capitals, dogtooth moulded pointed arches, the central one containing a vesica. The side walls are buttressed with plain moulded corbels and cill band. In the north side 5 tall lancets with hood moulds and blocked doorway with moulded reveals and dogtooth moulding to pointed head. In the east end 3 stepped lancets. South wall as north but with 6 lancets. Interior. 2 cells of ribbed quadripartite vaulting, the shafts rising from annular corbels with stiff leaf, foliage, they spring in turn from a keeled string course which continues round the interior. The ribs meet in floriate bosses and the cross ribs dividing the cells have dogtoothing. In the chancel is a sexpartite vault with dogtoothed mid rib, and a boss bearing the Agnus Dei. In the south wall a triangular headed aumbry. The rear arches of the windows have keeled shafts to the reveals and in one section of the nave early plaster is visible, gauged to resemble ashlar. In the west end a small planked door with chamfered surround and lintel. Fittings. Early C13 wooden screen arcade, reset in 1926 on new base, comprising trefoil arches on slender octagonal piers and facetted capitals. Font is a re-used medieval mortar with side lugs set on a cylindrical stone base. Monument. In the chancel, upper part only of C13 recumbent effigy to a knight, showing the deceased with chain mail, surcoat and shield, wearing helm, head on cushion with sprays of stiff leaf foliage to either side. An intact building of outstanding quality. Listing NGR: TF1901261373

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