Saturday 31 August 2024

St Michael Leafield


This was the last of the churches I managed to visit on this trip, I had hoped to get to one other at Ramsden but it had taken quite a while to get around the ones I had visited


" Leafield was a dependent chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood until the 19th century. Leafield's Church of England parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, built in 1859 and consecrated in 1860. The bell tower was completed in 1874 and has a ring of six bells, all cast that year by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough. St. Michael's is now a member of the Forest Edge Benefice."

From the road a nice lychgate to go through

Similar view to the fist one with my iphone

Getting a south view shot is not on and the best I could do was this one of the spire

Same around the north side

West end doorway

South east view with the spire

Porch with spire behind

Can't really get any more of a north side view than this

The church and churchyard form the path

Back to the boundary wall by the road

Headstones near the west end

This is a newer extension over to the south of the church

It is quite large

and the further east you find the most recent burials

From the extension you can see the church through the trees

Collage of graves and headstones

The porch on the south side

The nave as you come in

The nave with north and south aisles

Wider view of the church

The chancel and choir stalls

The altar with east window

The altar with cross and candle holders

Looking back through the arch

Typical Victorian banner though I have to admit this one is biggest I have seen

The organ with painted pipes

Pulpit

Most of the church can bee seen from it

The west end of the church with plain rose window

Lots of light let through with the upper windows

The east windows with rose window above

The east window shows scenes from the life of Jesus

The rose window I had trouble focusing on but shows God on his throne surrounded by angels and a dove

North aisle

South aisle with altar

The roll of honor is found on the south wall

Looking back to the west end of the south aisle

Collage of the roll of honor

The Font which is stood on pillars

Another view from the pulpit only going wide angle showing the whole of the nave and aisles

Looking down to the choir stalls and south aisle

I will leave you with this view of the church from the Preaching cross, the base is the original part the rest is Gothic Revival.

Till next time may I wish you all a wonderful week

6 comments:

Ragged Robin said...

A rather lovely lych gate and preaching cross. It looks another interesting church full of light.

Martha Jane Orlando said...

Something about this church really spoke to me through the photos your shared here, Billy. Beautiful!

Linda said...

Elegant spire! The interior shots are excellent.

Linda P said...

Thank you for visiting this church, for the information and detailed photos. I particularly enjoyed seeing the rose window and the stained glass. Greetings. May you and your family have a peaceful week.

Sarah MumofThree World said...

I was surprised that the church isn't much more than 150 years old. I always assume churches are much older than that! To me, it doesn't look any different from churches which are much older. That graveyard looks very big.

RachelSwirl said...

Such a pretty church! Thanks so much for sharing and for linking up with #MySundaySnapshot.