Church Of Saint Leonard

The Church of Saint Leonard is a church that features a 15th-century tower, with the rest of the building rebuilt in 1858 by architect G E Street. The tower is constructed from local stone with ashlar dressings, while the remainder of the church is made of Cary stone with Doulting dressings. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate and have coped gables topped with cross finials. The church has a four-cell plan consisting of a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave, a north aisle, and a northeast vestry, along with a south porch and a west tower.

The chancel includes a plinth, a stepped cill course, and offset corner buttresses. It features 19th-century traceried pointed arched windows with three lights on the east side and one and two lights on the south side. The nave has recessed 15th-century style traceried windows on the south wall, while the north aisle contains quasi-plate tracery windows with two and three lights, separated by buttresses between the bays.

The tower has four stages, with full-height angled offset corner buttresses, plinth string courses, crenellated parapets with corner pinnacles, and middle and corner gargoyles. The west door is a moulded four-centre arch with a flat label above it. Above this door, there is a three-light 15th-century traceried window set in a slight recess, with a string course angled as a label. Each face of the fourth stage has a two-light 15th-century traceried window with timber louvres. There is a hexagonal plan staircase turret on the northeast side that is three stages high, featuring a single cusped light window in a deep recess without a label on the south side of the third stage.

Inside, the church is predominantly in a late 13th-century style. It has a fine limewood panel set into an oak panel reredos, a Norman tub font set on a later base, a 15th-century panelled tower arch, fragments of medieval glass in the west tower window, and a few 17th-century bench ends in the north aisle. The church likely has 12th-century foundations and was served by monks from Bruton Priory until the dissolution.