Various places refer to this saint. Notable among these is the town of
St Leonards-on-Sea in
East Sussex,
England. Sussex is also home to
St Leonard's Forest. This part of England has a significant number of dedications to St Leonard. Some of the best-known are the parish church of St Leonard in
Hythe, Kent, with its famous
ossuary and
St. Leonard%27s, Shoreditch in London. There is a cluster of dedications in the
West Midlands region, including the original parish churches of
Bridgnorth (now a
redundant church and used for community purposes) and
Bilston, as well as
White Ladies Priory, a ruined
Augustinian house. The largest hospital in northern mediaeval England was an Augustinian foundation dedicated to St. Leonard, in
York; its partial ruins are to be found in the
Museum Gardens although undercroft remains lie some hundred yards away and are used as a bar under the York Theatre Royal. In
Newton Abbot, Devon, there is both a chapel of ease dedicated to St Leonard, first recorded in 1350, and a replacement church built in 1834. The chapel was near the bridewell (prison). There is also a church dedicated to St Leonard in
Wallingford, Oxfordshire; the church is Saxon in origin but it was heavily rebuilt in 1849 in the Victorian gothic revival style by architect
Henry Hakewill.
Clewer, Berkshire is the site of St Leonard's House (formerly
Sophia Lodge) & now the headquarters of Legoland Windsor, being formerly the HQ of Billy Smart's Windsor Safari Park. Several German churches are dedicated to the saint, including
St. Leonhard, Frankfurt. In Italy almost 225 places are dedicated to the saint, equally distributed in the North (in
Friuli, there is the oldest Italian church dedicated to this saint, 774) as well as in the South where the shrine was introduced by the
Normans. The shrine can be found even in Italian islands such as
Sicily,
Sardinia,
Ischia,
Procida. The Mediterranean nation of
Malta contains a single parish dedicated to this saint, in the town of
Kirkop; the parish church was founded on 29 May 1592. The saint is known as
San Anard Abbati in
Maltese. In Portugal the parish and church (late 12th century) of Atouguia da Baleia (Peniche) is dedicated to St Leonard. The saint's day is commemorated every 6 November (or the closest Sunday). This is the only parish dedicated to St Leonard in the country. ==Gallery==