Church of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church largely dating to the late 12th century, with significant rebuilding in the late 13th century (consecrated 1295), and extensions in the mid-14th and 15th centuries. A mid-19th century restoration occurred. It is constructed of coursed lias rubble with ashlar dressings and a Cotswold stone roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with north and south aisles and porches, transepts, and a chancel.

The west tower, built in the 15th century, has three stages with diagonal step buttresses and a crenellated parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. The belfry stage has windows of two ogee trefoiled lights under a two-centred head. The first stage has a small square-headed window, and the ground stage has an ogee trefoiled window with a square head over a door with a 19th-century Tudor arch.

The south aisle dates to the 12th century with later additions. It has three bays, the right bay containing a gabled 14th-century transept with diagonal buttresses and a 14th-century window of two cinquefoiled lights under a two-centred head. Aisle to the left has a 19th-century stone porch with a 15th-century door to the outer arch; to the right is a window of three cinquefoiled lights under a triangular head. The north aisle and transept are similarly arranged; the north transept window is of two ogee trefoil lights under a two-centred head.

The chancel is late 13th century, of three bays, with two trefoiled lancets to the west and a window of two cinquefoiled lights to the east. The east window is 18th-century, comprising three pointed lights under a two-centred head.

Inside, the nave has late 12th-century arcades, the south arcade of two and a half bays with two-centred arches of two square orders. The pillars and responds are round with scalloped capitals. The north arcade is slightly later, with three bays, two-centred arches and round pillars. The capital of the first pillar from the east has a carving depicting the legend of St Margaret on the south side. A blocked 15th-century doorway to the tower has a hollow chamfered arch and jambs. The south aisle contains a 14th-century trefoiled piscina with a shaft in the south wall. Part of the rood loft staircase survives in the northeast corner. The chancel windows are widely splayed with chamfered rere-arches.

The nave and chancel are roofed continuously without a chancel arch; the nave has three bays and the chancel has two, with heavily moulded tie beams and wall plates. The tie beam at the junction has arch braces rising from 15th-century stone corbels. The aisle roofs are lean-to.

The interior includes reset panelling in the south transept, with a piece dated 1615. The font is round with a tapering bowl and may be 12th-century.