Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a 15th-century tower, a nave constructed in 1835-6 by H Stevens of Derby, a mid-Victorian chancel, and a north aisle. The church includes a west porch, chancel, south vestry, north aisle, and north-west tower. It is built of sandstone ashlar with plain and machine tile roofs, moulded coped gables, plain kneelers, and remains of finials. A chamfered plinth runs along the base.

The west side of the nave features diagonal buttresses, a gabled porch with a moulded pointed arch, and a three-light window with 20th-century mullions. The south elevation of the nave has three bays divided by buttresses. Each bay contains a tall, two-light pointed window with Perpendicular style cast iron tracery and geometric glazing. To the east is a flat-roofed vestry with a coped parapet, a doorway with a moulded surround, and a three-light window of cusped lancets under a flat arch; a similar window is located to the east. The east end has a twin gabled elevation with two three-light windows featuring sparse cusped tracery.

The north side of the church has two bays which are a later addition and contain a two-light Decorated style window and a cusped lancet window, flanked by gableted buttresses. Further west are two two-light windows with poor cusped tracery. The 15th-century tower has a diagonal buttress to the south-west and an angle buttress to the north-west, divided into two stages by a stringcourse. A four-centred arched doorway is on the west side of the tower, above which are two cusped lancet lights. A small cusped rectangular window is above those. A circular clock face is present on the front and repeated on the north side. There are two two-light bell openings with cusped lights under almost triangular heads and set in deep concave surrounds.

Inside, the church has two-bay north arcades to the nave and chancel, with a quatrefoil and octagonal pier and double chamfered arches. A west gallery is supported by two iron columns. A plain, tapering octagonal font, likely from the 14th century, is present. A monument to Humphrey Dethick (died 1599) and his wife features recumbent alabaster effigies. The tomb chest displays six children standing in two panels, each with a triple arch. Other fittings are largely from the 20th century. A lavatory extension to the east of the aisle is not of special interest.