Record title: St Leonard's Churchwardens' Accounts
Repository: Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Shelfmark: LEV/CA/1
Repository location: Wisbech
St Leonard's Church is the parish church of Leverington. Built in the mid-thirteenth century, the lower stages of its tower and part of the south wall and arcading between the chancel and the south chapel date from this period; the south aisle and porch from the fourteenth century, and a fifteenth-century nave and north aisle replaced the original thirteenth-century construction (VCH: Cambridgeshire, vol 4, pp 186–97, British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp186-197, accessed 18 September 2021).
1487–1620; English; paper; 153 leaves; 290–318mm x 183–215mm; modern pencil foliation (ff 38–83 originally a separate MS and include accounts from 1497–1530); good condition; extensive repairs c 1950, leaves mounted into paper frames, rebound out of chronological order, burgundy cloth over boards; title on spine: LEVERINGTON PARISH BOOK–VOLUME I.