Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church with significant development spanning the 11th century to the 19th century, situated in Todwick, South Yorkshire. The earliest part of the building is the nave, dating from the 11th century, which was later extended with a porch and new windows. The chancel was originally built in the 14th century, followed by the addition of a tower in the 15th century. Subsequent alterations occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The church is constructed primarily of rubble sandstone, with ashlar and coursed squared limestone used elsewhere. The roof is covered with lead and graduated slate. The west tower is of Perpendicular style, featuring a chamfered plinth and moulded band. It has a three-light west window with cusped, pointed lights, slit windows on the southwest side, and two-light belfry openings. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and eight crocketed pinnacles. The nave has quoins, and a gabled porch with a chamfered, round-arched doorway and a cuboidal apex sundial. The roof above the porch contains carved scallop shell details. Two 18th-century windows are found in the nave, while a C11 north doorway is blocked. The chancel is narrower, with a square-headed priest's door flanked by 19th-century Decorated-style windows. Notably, the east window is a largely unrestored 14th-century three-light design with intersecting glazing bars.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered and sits upon corbels. The nave roof is dated 1702 and features moulded tie beams and king posts. A round arch of two orders, reworked at a later date, separates the nave and chancel. A reset trefoil-headed piscina is embedded in the north chancel wall. The font, originally from Worksop Abbey, has an octagonal shaft and moulded bowl. The church also contains box pews, fielded dado panelling, an inlaid semi-octagonal pulpit, Royal arms of George III, and a Jacobean, balustraded altar rail. Several monuments are present, including an early 18th-century cartouche to the Ashley family, a 19th-century tablet to the Fox family, and a brass memorial to Thomas Garland (d1609) with a motto 'POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM'. Further memorial tablets and brasses commemorate members of the Garland and Wrightson families. A north window in the nave contains stained glass depicting St George, created in memory of those who died in the First World War.