The church of ST. LEONARD consists of a chancel measuring internally 17 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. with a small north organ chamber and vestry, nave 35 ft. 6 in. by 16 ft 6 in. and a south porch.
The church probably dates from the 12th century, but the chancel has been entirely rebuilt and the nave has been so much modernized that there is no detail to give its date beyond a piece of 12th-century carved stone now preserved in the north wall.
The chancel is lighted by windows in the east and south walls. In the north wall is a small doorway into the vestry and an archway into the organ chamber. The nave has two windows in each side wall and a window in the west wall, all modern. The south doorway, between the two windows, has single chamfered jambs and square head and is of old stonework. The porch has an outer pointed archway of two chamfered orders.
In the north wall are some old jamb stones, grooved for glass, and the piece of stone already mentioned, which is carved with zigzag ornament. All the furniture is modern.
There are two bells of 1822 hung in a modern bellcote above the west gable.
The plate consists of a silver cup and paten and a pewter flagon. The cup bears the inscription 'Calix Sacer. Ecclesiae de Welbury,' and the paten is inscribed 'Patina Sacra Ecclesiae de Welbury'; both have the London mark for 1725. The flagon bears no date.
The registers begin in 1678.
[From British History Online]
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