Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is an Anglican parish church, now redundant, dating back to the 12th century. It has undergone various phases of construction and alteration throughout the 13th, 16th, and 19th centuries. The west part of the church was partly dismantled in 1868, and the church was declared redundant in 1970. It is built of rubble stone with a tiled roof, featuring a hip to the east end of the chancel. Originally a cruciform church with a crossing tower, only the chancel now remains.

The south side of the partly dismantled nave has a double-chamfered pointed doorway with a cusped niche above, a string course, and two former windows. The south side of the chancel features a blocked central pointed doorway and a blocked three-light 16th-century window with Tudor-arched lights, with clasping buttresses to the east end. A 19th-century three-light Perpendicular-style window is present, with a bolection-moulded tablet commemorating Anne Holland, who died in 1728, to the left, and a tablet to William Lawes, who died in 1794, to the right. The north side of the chancel has a blocked lancet and two deeply chamfered lancets, along with a blocked Tudor-arched doorway. A dismantled north transept existed previously. The north side of the nave has three blocked windows, a round-arched 12th-century doorway featuring water leaf and stiff leaf capitals (lacking a tympanum), and a Tudor-arched doorway at the west end, which formerly had windows above.

The interior of the former nave retains a trefoiled piscina on the south wall. The 13th-century crossing includes triple chamfered arches resting on chamfered responds. The chancel interior was reroofed in 1868 to create a mortuary chapel for the Church of St. John, completed the same year, and includes a Tudor-arched doorway set within the blocked chancel arch. A 12th-century cylindrical font is positioned on a reused pier base. The chancel houses a fine collection of 18th and 19th-century wall tablets, including signed examples such as a classical marble to Rev. Brounker Thring, who died in 1812, by King of Bath, one to Giles Halliday, who died in 1827, by Reeves of Bath, and a large classical marble to the Hinton family, by Randall of London. Earlier tablets include one dating back to 1693, with good lettering, dedicated to Margaret Bayly. Royal Arms of George IV are situated above the doorway, along with several prayer and benefaction boards. Good 19th-century stained glass is located in the lancets on the north side.