Information for record number MWA225:
Site of Chapel of St Leonard

Summary The site of the Chapel of St. Leonard, which was built during the Medieval period. It lies 350m south of the sewage works, Polesworth.
What Is It?  
Type: Chapel
Period: Medieval (1066 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Polesworth
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SK 27 01
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Chapel of Hoo situated between Polesworth and Grendon. This (now demolished) Chapel was dedicated to St Leonard, and endowed with land by Roger de Grendon, in King Henry I or King Stephen's time (1100-54). It is also recorded in the reign of John (1199-1216) and priests are recorded in 1535.
2 1846: During the building of the railway the site was discovered, gravestones and skeletons were found and an obelisk erected nearby (PRN 226).
3 The obelisk records the demolition of the Chapel in 1538. The obelisk is in a grass-covered area. Nothing remains to indicate the plan of the Chapel.
4 It is uncertain whether the obelisk marks the exact site of the Chapel. The railway runs several hundred metres to the N. Stone quarrying in the vicinity of the obelisk could represent quarrying for material to build an embankment for the railway.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Antiquities of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Dugdale W
Date: 1730
Page Number: 1056
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Descriptive Text
Title: Polesworth
Author/originator: Clark
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 19SE11
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1953
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Volume/Sheet: 19SE11
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: R.C.Hingley personal comment
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1989
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument BUILDING * A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument EMBANKMENT * A long ridge of earth, rocks or gravel primarily constructed to carry a roadway. back
monument OBELISK * A tall, tapering pillar with a pyramidal top, generally square on plan. Used in England from the late 16th century as a public, funerary or garden monument. back
monument SEWAGE WORKS * A group of buildings in which local sewage is filtered and purified in large rectangular or circular tanks. back
monument GRAVESTONE * A stone placed over or at the head or foot of a grave, or at the entrance of a tomb. back
monument CHAPEL * A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known. back
monument RAILWAY * A line or track consisting of iron or steel rails, on which passenger carriages or goods wagons are moved, usually by a locomotive engine. back

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