Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1830 by Watson, Pritchett and Watson. It is constructed from deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone and has a Welsh slate roof. The church is oriented from north-east to south-west, following the traditional ritual orientation. It features a west tower with a lean-to porch on the north side and a south vestry, along with a 4-bay nave and chancel combined into one space, which includes a later addition for an organ on the north side.

Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the church has offset buttresses, hoodmoulds, and embattled parapets. The tower has string courses that separate three offset stages, with diagonal buttresses that rise as pinnacles adorned with carved heads and crockets. The west window is a cavetto-moulded 2-light design with a cusped, pointed head, and there is a square-headed single-light window above it. The belfry openings are louvred 2-light windows, and there are clocks on the north and south sides beneath a peaked parapet. The spire is recessed, octagonal, and made of ashlar stone.

The lean-to porch on the north side has a Tudor-arched doorway, while the south vestry includes a later addition with a west door. The nave and chancel have a cavetto-moulded plinth, buttresses between the bays, and are topped with an oversailing course and an embattled parapet. The organ projection features a geometrical 2-light window and a coped gable. The east window is a pointed 4-light design flanked by angle buttresses, with a quatrefoil in a square recess beneath the altered east gable.

Inside, there is a cantilevered stone stair leading to the bell chamber, with an iron handrail. A west gallery is supported by two octagonal pillars. The organ arch is quadrant-moulded with keeled shafts, and there is a continuous hoodmould over the windows. The roof is underdrawn with moulded beams and pierced archbraces at the chancel division. An oak reredos commemorates men lost in the Great War, and the dado and gallery balustrade feature trefoil-headed panelling. The church was built on the site of a chapel erected between 1734 and 1740 for the Townend family and is now heavily braced against subsidence.