Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a 14th-century church, primarily of the 14th century, with an Anglo-Saxon arch. It is built of ashlar and coursed squared rubble stone with a part parapetted, part Collyweston slate roof and stone-coped gables. The church comprises a west tower, nave aisles, a chancel, a north-east vestry, and a south transept and porch.

The west tower is of three stages and constructed of coursed squared rubble stone on the north and south sides, with ashlar facing on the east and west. It has a plinth, a Decorated window, and a blocked door below. A sundial on the south wall is said to have been placed by Isaac Newton. There are four Decorated bell openings along with gargoyles, and a possibly restored cornice and battlements. The west arch to the nave is Anglo-Saxon, described as containing "the only worthwhile piece of Anglo-Saxon architecture in the County" with jambs of very large stones and unmoulded imposts. There are three similar arcades on the north and south sides, featuring double-chamfered arches over octagonal piers and responds, with hood moulds and label stops. A clerestory of four windows exists, with the north windows flat-topped and Decorated, and the south windows pointed and Decorated, although the southeast window is of late Perpendicular style. The exterior windows have hood moulds and label stops, and the clerestory has a ball flower frieze. Above the chancel is a small sanctus bell-cote.

The church has a four-bay, low-pitch tie beam roof, with wall pieces and bracesion wooden corbels. In the north aisle are Decorated windows, including one open to an organ chamber. The north window has Reticulated tracery and a blocked door. The north organ chamber and northeast vestry were likely built in 1858. The chancel arch resembles the arcades but with an inner chamfer. The chancel was rebuilt in 1858 and contains two windows with curvilinear tracery, one with stained glass dating to around 1882. A similar east window was added in 1868, also featuring stained glass. The chancel roof is a 19th-century structure with curved braces to a curved collar on carved corbels. The south transept has a stained-glass window dating to around 1887, and the south window has been restored in a Decorated style. The south doorway features thin shafts and multiple mouldings, with a six-panelled oak door inscribed with the date 1756. The south porch arch has keeled responds, and the aisle has a ball flower frieze.

Inside, there is a series of 18th-century wall monuments, continuing outside on the south transept walls, and a monument dating from 1695 on the east wall of the chancel. A font combines Early English and Norman capitals. Other furnishings include a 19th-century pulpit, a carved oak reredos, and choir stalls. Historical sources include White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.