Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church dating from the early 14th century, with significant additions in the late 15th century and a restoration in 1872-3. It is constructed of coursed greenstone rubble with limestone ashlar and some brick, roofed with slate and stone coped gables.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a north porch, and a chancel. The early 14th and late 15th century west tower is of three stages, featuring a moulded plinth, string course, and six-stage angle buttresses, with the upper two stages built of brick. It has a west doorway with a deeply moulded pointed head, a plank door, and a hood mould. Above the doorway is a pointed 14th century window with three pointed cusped lights and vertical tracery. The tower has pointed late 15th century bell openings on all four sides, with bowtell moulded surrounds, two cusped ogee-headed lights, quatrefoils, and hood moulds. Moulded eaves rise to large grotesque gargoyles, battlements, and corner pinnacles.

The north side of the nave features a 19th-century gabled porch with a pointed moulded head and jambs. Inside the porch is an inner doorway with a flattened triangular head, deeply and richly moulded head and jambs, and a plank door. A gravestone commemorates John Dowse, who died in 1765. On the west side, two two-stage buttresses flank two 15th century windows, each with a flattened triangular head, three cusped pointed lights, vertical tracery, and a hood mould. The south side of the chancel is plain, with a rectangular early 14th century window to the east, featuring two cusped ogee lights, and a blocked doorway with a bowtell moulded surround and shallow triangular head. A rectangular window to the west, partially restored in the 19th century, has two cusped ogee-headed lights, quatrefoils above. The south side of the nave has a moulded plinth and two windows, restored in the 19th century and divided by a two-stage buttress, each with a flattened triangular head, three cusped pointed lights, vertical tracery and a hood mould.

Inside, the tall 14th century tower arch is pointed with a double chamfered head and polygonal responds with re-entrant angles. The 14th century chancel arch is also pointed with a double chamfered head and polygonal responds. The chancel contains single small pointed piscinas in the north and south walls. A 15th century screen, restored in the 19th century, has five panels, a central opening with a cusped ogee head and rosettes, flanked by two ogee-headed, cusped and traceried openings on each side, with lower blind traceried panels that are entirely 19th century. A 19th century pulpit stands in the nave. A 15th century stoup is located by the north doorway. The 15th century octagonal font is set on a tall base with a bowl featuring cusped panels and plain shields. The interior also includes 19th century roofs and pews. A grey and white marble monument commemorates David Becon, who died in 1831. A further alabaster monument is dedicated to Sir Adrian Scrope, who died in 1623, attributed to Epiphanius Evesham. It depicts a semi-reclining effigy with a hand on the breast, a bearded and expressive face, a ruffed neck, and armour, alongside a tomb chest of pink and white streaked marble with two kneeling daughters and six sons in various poses.