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Middleton Parish Church,
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St Leonard’s Parish Church, Middleton (the one in Greater Manchester), dates back to around 1096 – although the site is believed to have been occupied by a wooden church much earlier than that. The wooden steeple on top of the tower is a much later addition (1667) and is one of only three wooden steeples surviving in the UK today.
In the South wall of the chancel is the Flodden Window, installed in 1515 to commemorate the safe return of Sir Richard Assheton from the Battle of Flodden Field. Although reconstructed in the 19th Century after falling in disrepair, the window is believed to be the oldest war memorial in existence.