Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 14th century, with substantial restoration and extension in the mid-19th century by J. C. Buckler. It is constructed of coursed and squared lias rubble, with some ashlar, freestone dressings, stone-tiled roofs, and moulded stone eaves cornices. The church features a crossing tower, a nave with a south porch, a north aisle, a north chapel, and a chancel. The architectural style is predominantly Decorated, with some Perpendicular features, and the 19th-century work is in a Decorated style.

The embattled tower has simple two-light bell-chamber windows and a stair turret to the north-east corner. The three-bay nave has two and three-light windows to the south, and a six-light transomed window to the west, beneath a door. The south porch has an apparently unrestored shafted outer door opening and an inner door with elaborate medievalising ironwork. The north aisle, added around 1859, has a rose window to the west. The north chapel features an elaborate north window with a cusped transom, the inner reveal carved with vines and heraldic shields. The transepts, dating to 1851, incorporate three-light north and south windows and lancets. The two-bay chancel has small two-light windows and a three-light east window.

The interior is plastered, with encaustic tile and flag floors. It contains elaborate cast-iron heater gratings. The tower stands on low arches, some of which appear renewed, and has a vaulted ceiling with ribs, ridge-ribs on corbels, and a Decorated arch to the north chapel. A two-bay arcade defines the north aisle with broad, squat arches. The roofs are all 19th-century, with hammerbeams to the nave, a lean-to with arch-bracing to the north aisle, a wagon roof to the north chapel, arch-braces to the transepts, and a wagon roof to the chancel, painted and gilded above the altar.

A 15th-century octagonal font sits on a shafted base, its panels carved with emblems of the Trinity. The majority of fittings date from the late 19th century, including pews with carved ends in a 15th-century style, elaborate choir stalls with poppy heads, a gilded altar and reredos, two screens, an aumbry with intricate ironwork, a pulpit, a lectern, and an organ. A Jacobean altar table is located in the north aisle. Three kneeling figures from an Elizabethan tomb are in the north chapel. The north aisle houses memorials to the Neville-Grenville family, while the north chapel contains a monument to Thomas Symcocks of 1624. The nave displays 19th-century brass plaques, and the south transept has Hood monuments, the largest by Lucius Gahagan of Bath, commemorating three brothers including Admiral Hood. This monument includes a relief depicting a sea battle. The church contains various examples of mid/late 19th-century stained glass, including a south window of 1851 by Augustus Welby Pugin, a south transept window of 1853 by Ward and Nixon, and an east window of 1829 by Willement, with remnants of medieval glass in the west window.