Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church largely dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations around 1384, a 15th-century chancel, and a Victorian restoration of 1871-72 by James Fowler. The church is constructed of greenstone ashlar with limestone ashlar dressings, covered by plain tiled and lead roofs. It comprises a western tower, nave, south aisle, north porch, and chancel.

The late 14th-century tower is of three stages, featuring corner buttresses, a moulded plinth, chamfered offsets, a battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles. The belfry stage has two-light louvred openings with ogee heads and quatrefoils. A three-light late 14th-century window, along with a single light, occupy the west wall. A similar single light is found on the north side of the tower. The gabled north porch has a continuously moulded outer door with a small niche above. An 18th-century panelled door is set within a continuously moulded 15th-century inner doorway with a hood.

The north wall of the nave contains single two and three-light 15th-century windows with panel tracery, concave moulded surrounds, and hoods. The 19th-century chancel north wall features two two-light cusped traceried windows with 14th-century reveals. The east wall holds two 19th-century windows, both of three lights with reticulated tracery. A two-light 19th-century window, also with 14th-century reveals, is located in the south wall of the south chapel. The south aisle is lit by three 20th-century three-light windows with cusped ogee lights and flat heads. A doorway in the west wall incorporates a re-used mid-12th century round arched head with billet moulding, believed to be from Calceby, and 15th-century reveals with square hollow chamfer and fleurons, and human heads.

Inside, a 12th-century three-bay south arcade has round piers and responds, some capitals with stiff leaf foliage. The arcade consists of two double chamfered round arches and one slightly pointed arch with chamfered hoods and ammonite stops. The late 14th-century tower arch is double chamfered and dies into the reveals. The chancel arch has annular responds and a double chamfered pointed arch. A double chamfered arch leads into the south chapel. Two similar 14th-century arches with stop chamfers and an octagonal pier are found in the chancel south wall. Reset panels of 17th-century Flemish painted glass are within the south window of the south chapel. The east window is by Clayton and Bell, dated 1873. The church fittings are primarily 19th-century, with the exception of a fine font featuring an octagonal traceried stem, an angel-supported bowl, and shields with symbols of the Passion and the Virgin Mary.

Monuments include a brass to Sir William Skipwith, died 1482, depicting the deceased, his wife, and their children beneath canopies, as well as a female brass with a dog. A white marble wall plaque in the Greek taste commemorates William Burrell Massingberd and family, died 1802. Two early 19th-century white marble plaques are also present, one with a pedimented top and the other featuring a draped female mourning figure before a broken Corinthian column, by Westmacott.