St Leonard, Stanton Fitzwarren
St Leonard, Stanton Fitzwarren
St Leonard’s is a Grade I Church of England parish church at Stanton Fitzwarren, near Swindon, in the Diocese of Bristol.
- Location
- Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Wiltshire
- City / town
- Stanton Fitzwarren
- Address
- The Avenue, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire, SN6 7SE
- Postcode
- SN6 7SE
- Built
- Norman nave; C13 or C14 chancel; C17 north tower (1631); restorations 1865 and 1891
- Architect
- J. W. Hugall (1865 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Leonard
- Diocese
- Bristol
- Parish
- Stanton Fitzwarren
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman, with later medieval and Victorian work
- Materials
- Rubble with stone-tile roof
- Grid reference
- SU 178 901
- Opening hours
- Key nearby
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
- Website
- https://stantonchurch.info/
Overview
Historic England lists the Church of St Leonard (NHLE 1023408, listed 26 January 1955). The listing records a Norman nave with fourteenth-century alterations, a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century chancel on the site of a Norman apse found in 1865, a seventeenth-century tower to the north, and restorations of 1865 and 1891. The fabric is rubble with a stone-tile roof. Norman north and south doorways survive. The church is listed at Grade I especially for its circular font of about 1180, carved with eight Virtues and Vices under trefoiled arches. Pevsner records the 1865 restoration by J. W. Hugall, a west bay added in 1891, and a south porch of 1898. The parish is now held with South Marston and Stratton St Margaret.