Church Of St Leonard

The Church of St Leonard is a parish church dating from the 14th century, with restorations and alterations made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The church features squared and irregularly coursed chert stone, limestone, and Ham stone dressings, topped with slate roofs and coped verges. It has a west tower, a three-bay north aisle, a nave, and a chancel that is set at an angle, along with a north-east vestry.

The tower is crenellated and consists of two stages, with a string course and gargoyles. Diagonal buttresses rise to support two-light cinquefoil-headed bell openings. The west side has a three-light window and a moulded doorway with a continuous hoodmould. There is an uncrenellated stair turret on the north-east side. Flanking the gabled single-storey porch are two-light windows, and the porch has half-glazed double doors. A sundial dated 1826 is inscribed with "Our days on the earth are as a shadow." Inside the porch, the inner doorway features a double roll moulded pointed arch with the date 1641 scratched on the left jamb. There is an offset buttress at the junction with the chancel, two-light windows flanking the priest's door, a three-light east window, and a lancet window on the north front. The vestry is single-storey and has a two-light east window, while the north aisle has two two-light windows on its front and another two-light window at the west end.

The interior is rendered and features a Perpendicular panelled chancel arch and a tower arch that is chamfered in two orders. The 19th-century three-bay arcade has corbel faces depicting a king and queen on the responds. The chancel roof is a 16th-century ribbed barrel vault with a wallplate, while the north aisle and chancel have 19th-century archbraced roofs. Mid-19th-century fittings include numbered benches, some designated as free seating, a Jacobean altar table, and a Minton tiled sanctuary. There are also three 17th-century tomb slabs. Notable tablets include one for William Brandon of Otterhead House, who died in 1854, signed by G Wood of Bristol, and another for John Banks, who died in 1769.