St Leonard, Billingford
St Leonard, Billingford
St Leonard’s is the Grade I parish church of Billingford near Scole, Norfolk, a late-medieval Waveney Valley church with a truncated west tower, in the Diocese of Norwich.
- Location
- Billingford, Norfolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Norfolk
- City / town
- Billingford
- Address
- Norgate Lane, Billingford, Norfolk, IP21 4HN
- Postcode
- IP21 4HN
- Built
- Mainly late C14 and C15
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Leonard
- Diocese
- Norwich
- Parish
- Billingford St Leonard
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint rubble, partly rendered, with stone dressings; tiled roofs
- Grid reference
- TM 168 791
- Opening hours
- We aim to have the church open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10am to 4pm from May to September. The church is locked during the Winter Months, but key holder's names and numbers are on the noticeboard in the porch.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England describes the church as mainly late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century, with Decorated and Perpendicular nave and chancel windows, a south porch, and a truncated west tower with diagonal buttresses, pyramidal tiled roof and polygonal stair turret. Walls are flint rubble, partly rendered, with stone dressings and tiled roofs. The church was listed Grade I on 7 December 1959 (list entry 1050112).
Interior fittings listed include an early fifteenth-century screen, a seventeenth-century octagonal pulpit with tester, fifteenth-century bench ends with poppy-heads, and a fifteenth-century octagonal font with angels holding shields on the bowl and lions on the stem. Wall paintings, probably early fourteenth-century, survive high on the south wall, with fragments of old glass in the chancel.
The legal parish is Billingford St Leonard. This is the Billingford on Norgate Lane (IP21), not the village of the same name near Dereham.