St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent

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Location
(51°14′58″N, 0°36′49″E)
Site Location
Leeds
National Grid Reference
TQ 825 533
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Kent now Kent
Diocese
medieval Canterbury now Canterbury
Dedication
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Toby Huitson
Photographers
  • Mary Berg
Visit Date
15 October 2012

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Feature Sets
Description

Leeds is a village 5 miles E of Maidstone. The church of St Nicholas, mainly built of ragstone with tufa, has an aisled nave, a chancel with chapels, and a low but massive square W tower. The only Romanesque surviving sculpture is in the W tower arch.

History

A church is mentioned in Domesday Book in 'Esledes', and Odo of Bayeux was the tenant in chief.

Features

Interior Features

Arches

Tower/Transept arches
Comments/Opinions

It is interesting that the tower is very large (S. Glynn describes it as 'perhaps unrivalled in size'), but the sculpture is minimal almost to the point of being non-existent.

Bibliography

S. Glynne, The Churches of Kent, London 1877, 84-5.