Church Of Saint Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church largely dating from the 14th century, with a 13th-century chancel and some re-used 12th-century moulded stone. Restorations in 1868, undertaken by J Fowler of Louth, involved raising the chancel and north aisle, adding a new south porch, and replacing the nave and chancel roofs. The church is constructed of ironstone and limestone ashlar for the tower, with ironstone, limestone, chalk and flint rubble and brick with ashlar dressings to the aisles and chancel; the porch is ashlar with reused medieval masonry. The roofs are slate, with Westmorland slate to the south aisle.

The church comprises a four-stage west tower, a four-bay aisled nave with a south porch, and a three-bay chancel. The tower features a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs. The first stage has a restored pointed 3-light west window with trefoiled lights and a blank panel above. The second stage, stepped in, has a small west needle lancet and double ogee-headed lancet belfry openings. A moulded cornice supports a coped parapet. The aisles have chamfered plinths, buttresses, cill bands, and restored square-headed 3-light traceried north and south windows, alongside pointed 2-light traceried west windows with hoodmoulds. The north aisle has a blocked pointed moulded door with a hoodmould, while the south aisle features a pointed 3-light east window with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould. There are two square-headed 2-light clerestory windows with moulded mullions. The chancel has a cill band, cut by arches and windows to the north and south. The north side has a blocked pointed arch with an inserted 19th-century pointed single light window and a blocked segmental-headed doorway. The south side has a square-headed chamfered door, a 2-light plate-traceried window with trefoiled lancets and a pierced quatrefoil over, a restored pointed 3-light window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould, and a restored pointed 2-light window with Y-tracery. The east end has triple round-headed windows, with a 19th-century oculus to the gable. The porch has a plinth, a pointed moulded outer arch, and a 14th-century pointed moulded inner arch with a hoodmould.

Inside, the nave arcades have pointed double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers and east responds with plain moulded capitals and bases on octagonal plinths, with the east responds corbelled and carved with fleurons. A narrow, restored, pointed chamfered tower arch has chamfered imposts. A blocked square-headed door to the north side is where a former rood-loft once stood. The chancel arch is pointed and double-chamfered, on octagonal responds. The chancel has a pointed chamfered arch to a blocked north door, a blocked double-chamfered arch with octagonal responds and plain moulded capitals, possibly to a former chantry chapel or Easter sepulchre, and deeply-splayed east lancets with a cill band. The nave contains reused 15th- to 16th-century bench ends with castellated tops and panels bearing 2-light trefoiled arches and foliate decoration. A mutilated bowl of a former medieval font is located in the chancel.