St Leonard

The chancel, originally designed by Dyce, retains its arcade of columns with stiff-leaf capitals but only fragments of his colourful painted scheme which was largely destroyed, along with the choir stalls, rood screen and altar furniture, in 1975

Fittings of note include a C15 octagonal font, restored after the 1975 fire, and stained glass by John Hayward of the late C20

MONUMENTS: In the chancel, a brass to William Mowfurth d.1513 and a mutilated figure of a knight, perhaps Sir John Ward, under a C14 canopy

in the Chapel of Unity, a late C14 or early C15 brass to John Elslefeld and a colourful alabaster monument to Edmund Tylney, d.1610

in the vaulted tower porch an early C17 monument to Massingberd family with facing kneeling figures and a fine late C17 baroque monument to the Howland family

There are other monuments, listed in the Buildings of England volume, London South (1983) 390-1. SUBSIDARY FEATURES: The churchyard contains four listed tombs: monument to George Abell, d.1826

monument to Joseph Hay, d.1805

monument to Thomas Helps d.1842 and his family (all Grade II). HISTORY: The Church of St Leonard, Streatham, dates from the C14, although there has been a church on this site since at least the Norman Conquest

The effigy of a knight at the east end, dating from the C14, may be Ward's. In 1778, the spire was added and then reconstructed in 1841