Our high level guttering on the South side fell down in the winter of 2022/23. An early estimate of cost to repair was £10,000 however this rapidly increased to £15,000 when the cost of aluminium guttering was stipulated in the faculty instead of PVC. OHCT provided and initial grant of £5,000 was increased to £7,500 to cover this.
The congregation raised £6,000 and had an additional grant from the Archdeacon’s fund to provide the balance.
The work was completed in early 2025.
With many thanks to OHCT for providing the bulk of finance.
History
Saint Leonard was designed by the local architect Walter Edward Mills (1850-1910) and built in 1890 It is a Gothic Revival building with north and south aisles joined to the nave by four-bay arcades
St. Leonard’s was a chapel of ease to Christ Church in Broad Street until 1921, when Grimsbury (an Eastern suburb of the town) was constituted as a separate parish with Saint Leonard’s as its church. In 1931 a fire destroyed much of the south side of St Leonard’s and thereafter the church was redecorated and a new vestry built.
