Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 15th century, with a significant restoration in 1896. It is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings, ashlar copings and battlements, and lead roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a north-west tower, a north aisle, and a south porch.

The nave’s south side features four bays with three-light windows under flat heads, and a three-light west window under a pointed head. It has buttresses with set-offs and an embattled parapet. The north aisle has two three-light windows under flat heads; buttresses and a blocking course also feature. The chancel has 19th-century two-light, 15th-century style windows to both sides, and a 19th-century three-light east window, all under pointed heads. A south doorway leads to a 15th-century plank door. The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses with set-offs, moulded string courses, a polygonal north-east stair turret and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west face of the tower has a recut 15th-century three-light window to the first stage, and two cusped light bell openings with timber louvres on all faces.

The gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses, two-light windows on the side walls, and a pointed-arched entrance with lozenge stops to the hoodmould. A sundial tops the gable apex. Inside the porch sits a recut doorway with a panelled and traceried plank door, a statue niche above and benches on either side, all beneath a wagon roof.

The four-bay north arcade has concave-sided octagonal piers with Tudor arches and two statue ledges on the inner piers. The nave and aisle have 15th-century tie-beam roofs, the chancel has a 19th-century tie-beam roof, and the north chapel, located under the tower, has a compartmented timber roof. Fine head-corbels decorate the north aisle and chancel, while armorial shields adorn the nave. A piscina is set into the chancel's south wall.

The nave and aisle contain early 17th-century box pews with knobs. A 15th-century font sits at the south door. A fragment of a Saxon cross rests on the west window sill. The eastern bay of the north aisle incorporates a 15th-century parclose screen, a fine 1627 pulpit with round-arched arcading, backboard and tester, and a 1748 brass candelabra positioned midway down the nave. A reassembled 15th-century rood screen is present, alongside a 1627 reader's desk, section of stalls, and chair.

The chancel contains four wall monuments dating from 1705 to 1726, commemorating the Browne, Pleydell, Browne, and Nott families, along with a 1731 brass candelabra. Fragments of 15th-century stained glass are within the vestry screen, late 19th-century stained glass is in the west and south-west nave windows, central aisle window, aisle east window, chancel east and south-east window. A 17th-century pyramidal font cap and a 17th-century surplice chest are located in the vestry.