Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church dating back to the 15th century, with substantial restoration and enlargement carried out between 1864 and 1867 by Ewan Christian. The church is constructed of dressed coursed rubble, with ashlar used for the chancel and south aisle, and slate roofs covering all sections except the lead roof of the chancel. The building features coped gables with single ridge crosses at the east end of the nave and chancel.

The architectural style includes a buttressed tower with a pyramidal roof and a single 2-light window with a flat arch and decorative label stops. The south wall of the tower displays a single trefoil with a clock face. The north aisle has a blocked 4-centred arched doorway with a moulded surround and worn label stops, alongside two 15th-century arched windows, each with three cusped lights, panel tracery, and a hood mould. The chancel’s north wall features two 19th-century 2-light windows with cusped reticulated tracery under flat arches, one with a hood mould. The east end of the chancel is diagonally buttressed and contains a 3-light arched window with intersecting tracery. The south chancel has a single 14th-century 2-light window with cusping, under a flat arch. The 19th-century south aisle’s east wall also has a 14th-century 2-light window with cusping, under a flat arch with a hood mould. The south wall of the aisle features a horizontal window composed of four quatrefoils, a doorway with a wooden door, and two arched windows with three arched lights, a hood mould, and worn figurative label stops. The west wall has a single arched 19th-century window with traceried and cusped lights and a hood mould with head label stops.

Inside, the inner chamfer of the double-chamfered chancel arch is supported on engaged octagonal columns with moulded capitals. The tower arch is double-chamfered, and the 19th-century south east nave/south aisle double-chamfered arch is also present. The chancel/south aisle 2-bay 19th-century arcade features shaped columns with crocketed capitals and double-chamfered arches, supported by similarly decorated imposts. Monuments include one to William Reason, dated 16?, featuring a broken pediment, decorative cartouche, skulls, and crossbones; and another to William Mellish, dated 1690, with stiff swags, cherubs' heads, urns, and a central decorative cartouche. The church furnishings are 20th-century, and an octagonal font dates to the 19th century. The structure includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.