Leeds is a village 5 miles E of Maidstone. The church of St Nicholas, mainly built of ragstone with tufa, has an aisled nave, a chancel with chapels, and a low but massive square W tower. The only Romanesque surviving sculpture is in the W tower arch.

A church is mentioned in Domesday Book in 'Esledes', and Odo of Bayeux was the tenant in chief.

It is interesting that the tower is very large (S. Glynn describes it as 'perhaps unrivalled in size'), but the sculpture is minimal almost to the point of being non-existent.