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Beaumont cum Mose - St Leonards & St Mary

The Church of St Leonard & St Mary is built mainly of rubble stone and is composed of a chancel, a nave of three bays, a north aisle which formerly was probably a Lady Chapel, a south porch and a western bell-cote with guardian angels. The Church is situated in the south-west part of the Parish, and all that remains of the ancient fabric - according to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments - are the eastern buttresses and the chancel walls. These were probably built in the 14th and 15th centuries. The foundations are probably of the earlier date possibly 12th century. A writer in the 18th century states that the nave is of "one pace" with the chancel, i.e. there was no chancel step. The east wall of the Church was restored in 1950 while the nave and chancel was restored in the 19th century. (See: Chancel of St Leonards & St Mary ) In 1678 Moze Church was pulled down and some of the stone used to repair Beaumont Church. Tradition has it that the north aisle was repaired at this time. A stone Cross was erected within the precincts of Old Moze Hall on the site of St Mary's Church, Moze in 1959: two mature oak trees mark the gateway.
Beaumont cum Mose - St Leonards & St Mary