Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a church dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, with early 14th-century additions. It was restored around 1870 and between 1881 and 1882 by J. M. Townsend. The church is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and coursed rubble with lead and slate roofs. It consists of a chancel, nave and aisles, a south porch, a west tower, and a west porch.

The chancel has a 14th-century priest's door to the north and early 14th-century windows with cusped Y tracery, mostly renewed in the 19th century. The south aisle features two early 13th-century windows to the right of the porch; a two-light window with plate tracery to the left and a pair of lancets to the right. A 19th-century window is located to the left of the porch. The 14th-century west window has two ogee-headed lights under a square hood and an ogee-headed recess below. The 14th-century south porch was restored in the 19th century. The 13th-century inner doorway has an arch with roll mouldings, jamb shafts with bell capitals and a ribbed plank door. A blocked north doorway dating from around 1200 features a pointed arch of two unchamfered orders; the jambs retain a scallop capital to the east and a capital with stylised leaves to the west, though the shafts are missing. Two early 13th-century two-light windows are located to the left.

The west tower, dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, is three-stage, with a plain parapet. It has a 12th-century round-headed lancet on the south side of the ground stage and 13th-century bell openings of two lights with plate tracery, which were renewed in the 19th century. A gabled 14th-century porch adjoins the tower. The inner doorway of the tower, dating from around 1200, has a pointed arch of three unchamfered orders, chamfered jambs, and a simple moulded band set in place of capitals.

Inside, the chancel has a 13th-century double piscina and sedilia. The nave arcades consist of three bays with circular and octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. The nave has a Perpendicular roof. A Romanesque font is carved with intersecting blind arcading on the south side, a knot pattern to the east, a tree of life to the west, and a chequer pattern to the north. There is a 14th-century stone effigy of a priest in a recessed arch in the chancel, flanked by a finial and believed to be a monument to John de Ardele, who was presented as priest to the church in 1348. A monument to Elizabeth Orme, who died in 1692, is a wall tablet in the north aisle, constructed from white marble with black Ionic half columns, surmounted by a crest and a small portrait bust. The bench ends incorporate re-used medieval tracery and small buttresses.