Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a building of early 12th century origin, with significant alterations and rebuilding in the 13th, 14th centuries, and again in 1881. It is constructed of rubble limestone with sandstone dressings and has plain tiled roofs with stone coped gables. The overall layout comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The west tower, dating to the early 12th century, is of three stages, each divided by a chamfer. It features flush quoins. The ground stage has a half-blocked, round-headed doorway with a slight chamfer and dripmould, now largely a window. A small arrow slit is present on the north elevation, while the second stage has a round-headed lancet on the south. The bell stage has two-light bell openings on each face, set within a blank super-arch with hoodmould and nook shafts on the west elevation; the north, south, and east bell openings are partly blocked. A corbel table is above, with later battlements.

The south side of the nave features a deep, gabled porch with a rustic pointed arch. To the left of the porch is a pair of pointed lancets from the 19th century. To the right is a two-light window from the 13th century, with Y-tracery, and a small lancet with a depressed pointed arch and no dressings. The north side of the nave has two post-Medieval mullion windows, one of two lights and the other of three lights. The chancel was rebuilt in 1881. The south side of the chancel has a partly re-used two-light window from the mid-14th century with a flat head and cusped ogee lights. Further to the right is a single lancet, followed by a buttress and a triplet of lancets linked by a hoodmould with minor arches between each lancet, and a string course running at sill level on the south and east sides. The east window is a three-light window with geometric style tracery and a hoodmould with re-used head stops. The north side of the chancel accommodates a vestry dated 1881, under a catslide roof with a gabled entrance forming a dormer. The south porch contains a much-restored 14th-century doorway with a single chamfer and a hoodmould, leading to a panelled door.

Internally, the early 12th-century tower arch is of two orders, a step and a roll, with a projecting impost and an outer roll moulding. The 13th-century chancel arch is double chamfered, resting on corbels. The north chancel arch is a 19th-century replacement in a similar style. A round arch doorway provides access from the chancel to the vestry. A 12th-century font exists, much renewed in 1865. It has a circular bowl and shaft with a cable moulding. A mid-14th-century piscina is located in the south wall of the chancel, featuring a cusped ogee-arched head. The triplet of lancets on the south side are shafted and their sills serve as sedilia. Early 17th-century communion rails are present, boasting turned balusters. A tomb chest monument to John Millward, who died in 1632, is located on the north wall of the chancel, displaying standing figures against the chest. Stained glass is present in the west window (1950 by A.F. Erridge), the nave northeast (c.1930 by F.C. Eden), the chancel southwest (also 1930, by F.C. Eden), and the east window (1893).