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6 unusual facts about St Leonard


Christopher Eipper

Christoph Eipper married Harriet Gyles on 15 June 1837 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England.

Leonardslee

The name Leonardslee derives from the lea or valley of St Leonard's Forest, one of the ancient forests of the High Weald.

No. 49 Squadron RAF

There is a memorial window to the crew and civilians killed in the crash in St Leonard's Church, Sandridge in Hertfordshire, UK.

St Leonard's Church, Aldrington

The ashes of actor C. Aubrey Smith are interred in his mother's grave in the churchyard of St Leonard's.

St Leonard's Church, Sandridge

It was no later than 1119 that the church was consecrated and dedicated to St Leonard by Herbert de Losinga 1st Bishop of Norwich (he died in 1119) and that Sandridge became a parish.

St Leonard's Forest

The forest was larger than the modern parish, effectively the part of the Rape of Bramber in the High Weald including Rusper, Ifield, the eastern part of modern Horsham and Nuthurst.


Bledington

The Church of England parish church of St Leonard dates from 1170: 12th century work includes the nave, pillars, tub font and sanctus bellcote: 13th century south aisle; 14th century windows; 15th century tower, stained glass and tiny chantry chapel: open bell-chamber and ring of six bells.

Chapel St Leonards

The name of the village derives from a chapel at Mumby dedicated to St Leonard; the village history is tied to that of Mumby, both at one time being part of the same ecclesiastical parish.

Grateley

The village has two shops, two pubs, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Aspergers Syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.

Marston Bigot

The small stone church, dedicated to St Leonard, was built on the site of an older one and was opened to the public in 1789.


see also

Alvingham Priory

In a few years the convent possessed lands in Alvingham, Cockerington, and Calthorp, and the churches of St. Adelwold, Alvingham, and St. Mary, Cockerington, which stood in the same churchyard, within the precinct of the priory, and the churches of St. Leonard, Cockerington, Cawthorpe, Keddington, and Newton.

Chesapeake Bay Flotilla

On 19 August 1814, the Flotilla left St. Leonard’s Creek and sailed north up the Patuxent River.

David Farrer

In 2008 Farrer was appointed vicar of the combined parishes of St Nicholas' Church, Arundel and St Leonard's Church, South Stoke, West Sussex and as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester in England.

Edmund Tylney

Edmund Tilney's father was buried on 10 September 1541 in St. Leonard's Church Streatham.

Farleigh Hungerford

In the early 15th century, his son, Sir Walter Hungerford, enlarged the castle by adding the outer court that enclosed the parish church, St Leonard's, which he used as his chapel.

Flag Pond

Flag Ponds Nature Park, a nature preserve located in St. Leonard, Maryland

Léonard Limousin

:For St. Leonard of Limousin go to Saint Leonard of Noblac

Leonard of Port Maurice

When Cosimo III de' Medici handed over the monastery del Monte (on San Miniato near Florence, also called Monte alle Croci) to the members of the Riformella, St Leonard was sent hither under the auspices and by desire of Cosimo III, and began shortly to hold missions among the people of Tuscany.

Manor Park Country Park

The park is situated on St. Leonard's Road between West Malling and Kings Hill, not far from the A228 West Malling bypass.

Maryland Route 265

Mackall Road continues south as a county highway through Wallville and Mackall to the end of the road at St. Leonard Creek near the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum.

Ribblehead

The ecclesiastical parish is St Leonard, Ingleton and there is a small church dedicated to St. Leonard at Chapel-le-Dale.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney

The first church called St Thomas' on the site, then named St Leonard's, was designed by Conrad Martens and opened in 1846.

Stanton Fitzwarren

St. Leonard's restoration (1865) was completed by the Gothic Revival architect J.W. Hugall.

Sunningwell

In 1877 St. Leonard's was restored under the direction of J.P. Seddon, a friend of William Morris, who designed the stained glass in the east window.

Turners Hill

St Leonard's was built in 1895-7 by Lacy Ridge, with porches and the rock-faced tower added by Sir Aston Webb in 1923.

Victoria-la-Vallée

It moved south taking in parts of Victoria County north of the Aroostook River and north taking in the areas around and including the Town of St-Leonard.