Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church primarily of 14th and 15th century origin, with the north aisle wall rebuilt in 1881. It is constructed of ashlar sandstone, with rubble walling to the chancel, and has a visible 19th-century tile roof over the chancel. The building comprises a west tower, a three-bay nave with a north aisle and a south porch, a two-bay chancel, a north organ chamber, and a vestry. The architectural style is Decorated, characterised by reticulated tracery.

The west tower has a chamfered plinth and a north-east vice resembling a large buttress. A 1881 datestone is located beneath the three-light west window, which has a hoodmould. Round-headed slit windows are situated beneath louvred two-light belfry openings with rounded arches, with a square-headed window on the west side. A string course runs beneath the embattled parapet, which is topped with crocketed pinnacles.

The nave has a chamfered plinth. The rebuilt south porch, completed in 1901 by Lutyens, features iron gates set within a quadrant-moulded ogee arch, with gable copings and a cross. The porch interior includes a cavetto-moulded south door and medieval stones in the side walls. Flanking three-light windows have restored tracery and hoodmoulds. A sundial, dated 1789, is located at the south-west corner. Three 16th-17th century two-light mullioned windows are present on the south side, one of which has been altered. Beneath a string course and embattled parapet, the rebuilt north wall features square-headed windows with cusped ogee lights, and a clerestory with two three-light windows, both with matching parapets to the south.

The chancel has a blocked ogee-arched priest's door, flanked by two-light windows with quadrant-moulded surrounds to the ogee lights, all beneath a square head. The 19th-century organ chamber has buttresses flanking a plate tracery window beneath a gable, with a lean-to vestry attached. The east window, dating to the 14th century, is of three lights, with a head-carved hoodmould beneath a gable, having shaped kneelers, copings, and a cross.

The interior features a tall double-chamfered tower arch. Within the north aisle, cylindrical piers have broach-stopped bases and moulded capitals (one round, one octagonal); the eastern respond has restored waterleaf decoration, and there are double-chamfered arches. A tall, pointed and double-chamfered chancel arch sits on moulded brackets. A pointed-arched rood-stair door is also visible. The church has 19th-century roofs and fittings. Monuments include a cross slab with a book and chalice, dedicated to Thomas Toytyll (died 1482), near the priest’s door, and other incised slabs, including one to Richard Worteley (died 1435). A window on the south side of the nave, likely by Morris and Co. in the style of Burne-Jones, commemorates Ellen Walker (died 1879).