Find Out (More)

about the extensive heritage of St Leonard’s church & Flamstead village

photo of leaflets on table in front of information panels
  • FIND OUT: all the Flamstead Heritage content available on site at St Leonard’s can be viewed from Table 1 below
  • FIND OUT MORE: selected further content, much online, is listed in Table 2
  • EXPLORE ST LEONARD’S: the church’s own interactive visitor’s guide
  • OR visit New Content for the full set produced by or for Flamstead Heritage or Archive Content for all the older (re-)published material

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Heritage Timeline Trail (exterior)

Heritage Interior Trail

The wildlife sculptures being admired by (L to R) the curate, vicar & local MP.

The exhibition area in the church showing banners, panels, and literature to take away.

An information board to welcome visitors to the church and churchyard.

 

Table 1: Content by Flamstead Heritage: as found in the church or churchyard

displays In the churchyard  
board Trowley Hill Road entrance to churchyard download
board Village Hall entrances to churchyard download
board Main (High Street) entrance to churchyard download
board Building history (a story told in flint and stone) download
board Heritage wildlife in the churchyard: owl, falcon & bat download
displays Inside the church  
banner Welcome to St Leonard’s, Flamstead download
banner The Story of St Leonard’s, Flamstead download
panel Flamstead 100 Years ago. download
panel Flamstead, Then and Now 1 download
panel Flamstead, Then and Now 2 download
panel Graffiti from Medieval Times to the present day download
panel Ten Centuries of places, events & people in Flamstead download
panel St Leonard’s Wall Paintings download
panel Bells and Bell Ringing at St Leonard’s download
panel Significant archaeological discoveries near Flamstead download
screen Explore St Leonard’s (interactive visitor’s guide) visit
items to take away:
print copies can be bought in church for the price or suggested donation (SD) shown (downloads are free)
leaflet Heritage Timeline Trail (exterior) – £1 (SD) download
leaflet Heritage Interior Trail – £1 (SD) download
leaflet St Leonard’s Mediaeval Graffiti – £1 (SD) download
leaflet St Leonard’s Wall Paintings – £1 (SD) download
guidebook Church & Parish – a Guide and History – £3 (price) download
booklet Children’s Activity Booklet: explore St Leonard’s Church – £1 (SD) download
 

Table 2: Further selected materials: often specialist, in-depth or historic

Those produced for or published by Flamstead Heritage can be viewed/ downloaded. Otherwise, links to third party websites or references to print publications have been provided.

Contemporary materials produced by or for Flamstead Heritage  
Champion, Matthew; St Leonard’s Church Flamstead: Fabric Survey Report; 2024. download
Champion, Matthew; St Leonard’s Church Flamstead: Graffiti Survey Interpretation Report; 2024. download
Team ER – Shackleton Education; St Leonard’s Educational Resource (Early Years, Key Stages 1-3, adults); 2021 visit
For the full set of such materials visit the New content section of this website visit
Archive material (re-)published by Flamstead Heritage  
Bullard, John Vincent (with Cobb E.F. and Sebright, Sir Edgar R. S.); Flamstead its Church and History; privately published, 1902. access
Bullard, John Vincent; Repairs to Flamstead Church; privately published, 1905. download
Russell, Cecil; Flamstead Hertfordshire; privately published, 1956. access
For the full set of such materials visit the Archive Content section of this website visit
Other (not Flamstead Heritage) post 1900 Material (by author)  
Champion, Matthew; Medieval Graffiti; Ebury Press, 2015.  
Edwards, Eric; A New History of Flamstead; Flamstead Society, 1999.  
Edwards, Eric; Flamstead the Listed Buildings and the People who lived in them; Flamstead Society, 2006.  
Hertfordshire Family History Society; Monumental Inscriptions of the Parish Church of St Leonard, Flamstead; 1988. visit (buy)
Historic England; National Heritage List for England; entry number 1172799.(St Leonard’s) visit
Historic England; National Heritage List for England; Flamstead (all listed buildings) visit
Hogg, Richard; Edward Mott Markyate Photographer; privately published, 2017.  
Page, William, ed; Parishes: Flamstead, A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2, London, pp. 193-201. (Victoria County History – VCH).; 1908. visit
Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget; The Buildings of England Hertfordshire, 2nd ed; Penguin Books, 1977.  
Rowe, Anne & Williamson Tom; Hertfordshire a landscape history; University of Hertfordshire Press, 2013.  
Antiquarian pre 1900 (by date)  
Norden, John; A Description of Hartfordshire (in Speculi Britaniae Pars); 1598, reprinted Ware, Price, 1903. visit
Clutterbuck, Robert; History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford; Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1815. locate
Chauncy, Sir Henry Kt; The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire; J.M. Mullinger, 1826. visit
Cussans, John Edwin; History of Hertfordshire, Vol III; E.P. Publishing, 1879. visit
Clarkson, S Flint; Flamstead, Transactions of the St Albans Architectural & Archaeological Society, pp 69-84; 1887. visit

Interpretation panel on a wildlife sculpture in the churchyard

Display panel in the church interpreting the wall paintings

Leaflet for a self-guided tour around the churchyard & village.

Interactive Visitors’ Guide (touch screen)

74 page guidebook to Church & Village

Children’s activity booklet to explore the church