Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter has a 12th-century origin, with significant development in the 14th century and a restoration in 1890-91 by W. M. Fawcett. It is constructed of coursed, squared magnesian limestone, with graduated green slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a three-bay nave with a south porch, and a narrower two-bay chancel with a north vestry.

The tower has a chamfered plinth and offsets, and its west side features a small lancet window below a square-headed, chamfered window. Above is an offset with a south clock, and square-headed, two-light openings in double-chamfered surrounds. A corbel table and cornice support a Perpendicular embattled parapet with four crocketed pinnacles.

The nave has a chamfered plinth and offset buttresses at each end, with another featuring a mass dial between square-headed windows of two ogee lights, originally with hoodmoulds bearing old, carved stops. The later porch to the left has segmental arches and a stone slate roof. The nave's north side displays a blocked, shouldered-lintelled doorway, and a buttress flanked by windows similar to the south, but lacking hoodmoulds.

The chancel has a blocked priests' door with a shouldered lintel, a small window with a similar head on the left, and a large three-light window to the right with reticulated tracery beneath a pointed arch and old hoodmould with head-carved stops. Offset buttresses flank a double-chamfered, pointed, five-light east window with renewed sandstone mullions, reticulated tracery, and a hoodmould. The east gable was rebuilt in 1890-91 and has ashlar copings and a cross. The north vestry, dating from 1890-91, has windows and a north door with shouldered lintels.

Inside, a 12th-century doorway in the tower has a chamfered impost to a plain round arch. An archway provides access from the south porch. The chancel features a moulded impost to a double-chamfered, pointed arch, with a squint on the north side. A tomb recess in the north wall of the chancel contains a cusped, crocketed ogee canopy and a pinnacle. A small, moulded octagonal stone font dates to the 14th century. The restored 17th-century wooden pulpit has a nulled frieze and Gothic Revival panels. A painted Royal Coat of Arms, bearing the initials 'G.R.', is on the west wall. There are three bells dating from 1500-1520. Within the chancel recess is a 14th-century effigy of a knight with hands clasped in prayer, his feet on a lion and his head on a helm. A wall monument to Nicholas Fairfax (d.1703) features a winged cherub beneath an inscribed panel flanked by drops, with an enriched segmental pediment crowned by a shield of arms.