page_title: Leighton Bromswold
section_title: Twin pulpits
hierarchical_section_title: Leighton Bromswold / St Mary the Virgin's Church / Twin pulpits
caption_attribution_description: English: The interior of St Mary.
context_page_description: Leighton Bromswold is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Leighton lies approximately 10 miles west of Huntingdon. Leighton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The civil parish of which it is part is called Leighton and in 2001 had a population of 224, falling to 210 at the 2011 Census. The parish covers an area of 3,128 acres.
context_section_description: The two Pulpits date from 1626, are of oak and of the same general design, set against the two responds of the chancel-arch, each of pentagonal form with a short flight of steps, base having a series of short turned balusters connected by segmental arches and capped by a cornice, the whole continued outwards as a rail to the stairs; upper part of pulpit, each face divided into two bays by turned columns with moulded bases and capitals from which spring segmental arches and the whole finished with an entablature; door similar but with one half-column only, between the bays and with strap-hinges; sounding-board resting on panelled standard at back with two attached pilasters; board finished with an entablature with segmental arches below and turned pendants, boarded soffit with turned pendant in middle.
caption: A view down the nave showing the twin pulpits.
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