Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with later 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble stone with quoins, and has leaded, parapetted roofs covered with Collyweston slate, stone coped gables. The church comprises a west tower with a spire, a nave, aisles, a north chancel chapel, a chancel, and a south porch.

The west tower is from the 14th century and built of ashlar, with three stages. It features a quatrefoil window on each of three sides in the second stage, slits to the southwest staircase, a sundial on the south side of the southwest buttress, four pairs of two-light bell openings with a transom, and a quatrefoil frieze above. The spire has small flat broaches, three tiers of lucarnes in alternating positions (the top tier being small quatrefoils), roll mouldings to the face angles, and a summit with a circlet of leaves and an iron weathervane. The nave arch is double-chamfered, with the inner chamfer diminishing into a semi-circular respond. There are two bay arcades of the 13th century, the south arcade being the earlier with a circular pier and crocket capital, and the north arcade similar with a plain pier, both having double-chamfered pointed arches. Hood moulds and 19th-century label stops are present throughout. The north arcade and clerestory are said to have been rebuilt. The clerestory has three Perp windows on each side, and the roof is a low-pitch tie beam roof from the 19th century, rising from possibly original battlemented stone corbels. The north aisle features buttresses with set-offs, a northwest window with 19th-century Reticulated tracery, a blocked north door, and possibly a 19th-century triple lancet window. A similar window continues into the north chancel chapel, along with a northeast window with original Reticulated tracery and a niche on the south wall below. A two-bay round arched arcade with double chamfers leads to the chancel. The chancel has restored Perpendicular windows to the east and south, a small south door, and a 19th-century boarded four-bay roof incorporating fragments of the original Perpendicular roof, with three carved supporting figures on each side. The chancel is of ashlar and includes a cusped headed niche and double sedilia with roll mouldings. The south aisle has a lead roof, a south window with Geometric tracery, a southwest Perpendicular window, a small cusped headed piscina, and a 13th-century plain octagonal font resting on four short moulded and chamfered piers and a central drainage pier. The south porch has many moulded round arch shafts. The south doorway has a round arch with a double chamfer and a curved inner edge, with outer shafts remaining. The door is now in two leaves and is from the 17th century or possibly earlier. Inside, there is a small brass wall monument to former rector Rowland Digby, who died in 1546, a fine stone wall monument to Roland Durant, who died in 1588, and a further monument from 1840. Fragments of a fine pulpit dated 1605 have been reassembled. A right side of the rector's chair from around 1540 is carved with the inscription 'Rowlandus Digbi, Rector' and 'D.E.' and 'B.A.' flanked by fleur-de-lys. There are also 19th-century oak choir stalls, a pulpit, and pews, along with a brass lectern. A Majolica tile reredos by the firm of Maw & Sons, White’s Leicestershire and Rutland, was installed in 1877.