Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a church dating to the 13th century, with additions and alterations in the 14th and mid-19th centuries. It is constructed of regular coursed and squared limestone and ironstone, with ashlar dressings, and a lead and stone slate roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, south aisle, north porch, and a west tower.

The south elevation of the chancel has a single-window range with a two-light window to the left, and a small lancet window below. A south door is situated to the right of the window. The chancel has a shallow pitched roof with an ashlar cornice, gable parapets, and a finial. The 14th-century east window is a four-light window featuring roundels with cusping. The north elevation of the chancel is similar to the south, with a two-light window to the left, and fragments of masonry depicting a head. The mid-19th century south aisle is built of segmented coursed ironstone with a lean-to roof and has a four-window range of two-light windows. Similar east and west windows are present, along with an ashlar cornice, gable parapets, and kneelers. The south nave clerestory features a two-window range of two-light windows with 19th-century reticulated tracery. The north elevation of the nave has a three-window range of two-light, ogee-headed windows with 19th-century renewed tracery. A mid-19th century gabled porch, situated to the right of centre, has ashlar gable parapets, a finial, and a Collyweston slate roof. The west tower, dating to the 13th century and of three stages, has a single lancet window on the west face of the lower stage. Large two-stage buttresses adjoin the nave. The bell chamber has two-light openings on each face of the third stage. Visible are the remains of a corbel table above, with a castellated ashlar parapet that was likely rebuilt four courses above the original corbel table.

Inside, the church has a 13th-century four-bay south arcade with double-chamfered arches on circular piers. A double-chamfered chancel arch features polygonal responds, and the tower arch is also double-chamfered with plain responds. The roof structure is of 19th-century design. A 19th-century font is supported on detached columns, and a 1860 pulpit is constructed of marble, decorated with trefoils, quatrefoils, and mosaic. All windows contain 19th-century coloured glass. A monument on the south wall of the chancel commemorates Sir Francis Nicolls, who died in 1642, and includes a brass panel with four kneeling figures in a painted alabaster surround, topped with a heraldic device and flanked by short obelisks. Four 17th-century brass tablets to the left of the chancel steps represent the Nicolls and Bagshawe families. A black stone tablet to the right of the chancel steps commemorates William Baker, who died in 1733, with a similar tablet at the rear of the nave remembering Sarah Baker, who died in 1732. Various other inscribed floor tablets are also present. A pre-Reformation bell in the lower stage of the tower has a Latin inscription.