St Leonard's Church, Sutton Veny

St Leonard's Church
Location Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates 51°10′22″N 2°07′57″W / 51.17278°N 2.13250°W / 51.17278; -2.13250Coordinates: 51°10′22″N 2°07′57″W / 51.17278°N 2.13250°W / 51.17278; -2.13250
Built 12th century
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name: Church of St. Leonard
Designated 11 September 1968[1]
Reference no. 313442
Location of St Leonard's Church in Wiltshire

St Leonard's Church in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 28 May 1970, and was vested in the Trust on 27 October 1971.[3]

The cruciform church was started in the 12th century and revised in the 13th and 16th centuries,[1] and underwent a major restoration in 1831. It was originally linked to the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.[4] Subsidence because of low lying damp ground caused further damage, which had been repaired by the addition of buttresses in the 14th and 15th century,[4] and by 1866 the decision had been made to build a new church.[5] This was dedicated to St John the Evangelist, designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built on higher ground 700 yards (640 m) to the north west, opening in 1868.[5] Only the chancel remains in usable condition and was used as a mortuary chapel.[6] It contains benefaction boards, a bier, font, bell and memorials on the walls. The Norman door dates from the 12th century.[7][4] The nave, transepts and crossing are ruined but remain as architectural features including a double-chamfered pointed doorway.[2][1]

There are two yew trees south east of the church. One which is now largely decayed has a girth of 14 feet 10 inches (4.52 m), however it is not know how large it was when the tree was healthy.[8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Church of St Leonard, Sutton Veny (1036423)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 January 2014
  2. 1 2 St Leonard's Church, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 31 March 2011
  3. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 10, retrieved 31 March 2011
  4. 1 2 3 "Sutton Veny In: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds.". British History Online. Victoria County History. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Churches". Sutton Veny village website. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "St Leonard's Church, Sutton Veny". Time for Wiltshire. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "St Leonard, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire". Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Hills, Tim. "St Leonard's Old Church" (PDF). Ancient Yews. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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