Church of St Leodegar

Heritage listing

Details TF 34 SW WYBERTON CHURCH LANE (south side) 11/128 Church of St Leodegar 26.1.67 I Parish church. Originally late C12 rebuilt c.1420. Chancel rebuilt 1760. Restored by George Gilbert Scott Junior c.1880. Coursed limestone rubble, some ashlar and lined stucco. Western tower, clerestoried nave, aisles, facetted chancel. The original church had a crossing tower which collapsed in 1419. 3 stage tower has stepped corner buttresses and battlemented parapet with angle grotesques. The paired belfry lights are of 2 tiers with broadly cusped heads to the lights. On the west side the pointed doorway has a deeply moulded rectangular surround with trefoils in the spandrels. Hood mould with figured stops. Above the door a 4 light window with 4 centred arched head. The rendered north aisle with plain parapet has C19 3 light windows with panel tracery, one to both ends and 5 to the side, set between stepped buttresses, all in C15 chamfered surrounds. 5 three light C15 clerestory windows now with C19 cusped tracery. The red brick facetted chancel has a plain tiled hipped roof, with plinth and dentiilated eaves. A blank east window with ashlar key and impost blocks, matching side windows. South aisle matches the north, with one blank side window, 3 windows and a single buttress. Shaped rainwater hopper dated 1775 on the clerestory. Interior. 5 bay nave arcades, the north arcade has reused C13 clustered shafts, annular capitals and double chamfered arches. The south arcade has octagonal shafts, bell moulded bases, annular capitals, one with hobnail decoration, 2 double chamfered arches and 3 with a chamfer and roll moulding. The third columns from the west end have large bases of the earlier shafted columns which formed the original crossing. Fragments of interlocking trefoil friez

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.