flagon is inscribed "Richard Selby and John Tucker / Chapel Wardens 1776". The bells There are three bells. The largest is inscribed "Henry Neale Made Mee: 1627 GH:ESQVYER:EH:". The middle bell is inscribed "Ave Maria: Gracia Plena" and although no date is inscribed it is thought to have been made in Bristol about 1450. The third bell was cast by Abraham II Rudhall in 1729. At present the bells are said to be unringable. Parish Leigh was anciently a chapelry of Ashton Keynes church. Baptisms and marriages took place at Leigh but there was no right of burial until 1865. Although Leigh became a separate civil parish in 1884, for church purposes the benefice continued as 'Ashton Keynes with Leigh'; in 1978 Leigh was still described as a chapelry. The church today Leigh parish is part of the Upper Thames group, alongside the churches at Ashton Keynes and Latton, and centred on St Sampson's, Cricklade. Since the congregation is small, services are mainly held at the festivals (Easter, Christmas, and harvest). The earlier church All Saints Chancel (the original church) is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant in 1977, and vested in the Trust on 24 October 1978. The chancel is entered through a finely moulded thirteenth century doorway which has a hood-mould resting on a human head and a beast's head. Inside, on the South wall there is a late thirteenth century window having three stepped lancet lights under one arch. On the wall of the chancel are 17th-century texts painted on the walls and framed in designs of clouds and scrolls. The inside sill is carried down a sedilia and in the east jamb there is a piscina for washing communion vessels. In 1983 the texts were re-lettered in their original style and we can see the similarity to the decoration of the Colossians text in the Church. See also List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England References External links Church of England church buildings in Wiltshire 14th-century church buildings in England Grade II* listed churches in Wiltshire