page_title: Samlesbury
section_title: Religious buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Samlesbury / Religious buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Samlesbury Church and the Ribble Seen from across the Ribble on a bright December afternoon, this church might have been painted by Constable...
context_page_description: Samlesbury is a village and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England. Samlesbury Hall, a historic house, is in the village, as is Samlesbury Aerodrome and a large modern brewery owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. The population at the 2011 census was 1,206.
context_section_description: Samlesbury parish church, like the one at nearby Walton-le-Dale, is dedicated to St. Leonard the Less and was founded in 1096. The church contains a Norman tub font, a medieval bell and Sir Thomas Southworth's funerary armour dating from 1546. It also has a church chest, a two-decker pulpit and a complete set of box pews dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
  The Roman Catholic church is St Mary and St John Southworth. There was previously also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
caption: Samlesbury parish church
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