St Leonard Waterstock Revisit

 

 

This week we go to  St Leonard Waterstock again to see inside the church, on my last visit the church was locked due to the virus but like many other churches it is now open again. I was interested to see what it was like inside as the outside showed  great promise 

The porch door was open a good sign

Inside a view shows the chancel and north chapel

Going to the back of the church you look down the nave to the chancel

The chancel was quite dark due to the south window being removed and boarded off, there is a structural crack running down the wall though the window that I spotted outside when I first visited

The altar dressed with vases of flowers

The east window the main light to the chancel, the overheads I could find now switch for

Behind the altar this beautiful mural

With the last supper the centrepiece

Either side Moses stands with the ten commandments  with other figures with their names underneath

The other side shows St John the saints beside him

 Looking back through the arch towards the nave

 

 

To one side of the arch the pulpit
 

From which you look down to the nave

 

Looking back up the nave to the back of the church where the font is

A ladder to one side takes you to the bell loft

Carving on the font

Behind on the wall a verse from the bible

Above a stained glass window shins light on to the font

In the north chapel you can see the organ

While the other end you see this fellow looking down on you

He looks rather creepy to me

Is mane is George Croke who happened to be a Sir but did not want to be buried with his title

The inscription is in Latin but you can make out he died in 1641 though the link I found above shows 1642

As you enter the chapel a couple of old headstones lean by the wall

By the east wall an odd looking table which happens to be a byre

 

At the end by the north wall a broken memorial looks like it has just fallen there 

There are a few memorials around the church this one the inscription is hard to read

Memorial to Elinor and Edward Lewis

 

This one to Rev Robert Bertie Broughton and his wife Penelope Needham 

William Henry Ashhurst

Commemorative plaque

A beautiful looking Roll of honour

Wit the words hand written

 

Listing the men who fought in WWI, I presume the three crosses mark those who died

A very faded list beside it list those from WWII

This stained glass window in the north chapel show the coasts of arms from the Asshehurst famil

Each one showing the name of one of the family

This window looks down on the chapel

Statues can be seen on either side

 

Though I am not sure if they are saints or angels 

The family names seems to stop in 1843

A verse across the roof joist above the chancel arch

You walk across this tomb after coming through the door

Pews in the nave

 

Chair with O Lord carved on the back

The lecture by the chancel arch

The Bible open to read

Till Next time I wish a peaceful weekend