Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1887. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble stone with a leaded roof, except for the north aisle which is parapetted. The building features buttresses, including angle and diagonal buttresses with set-offs, and windows largely with hood moulds.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, aisles that begin one bay east of the tower, and a chancel. The 15th-century ashlar tower has three stages with a moulded plinth and angle buttresses. It contains a south doorway, a three-light west window with a fragment of medieval stained glass, and four single-light windows on the second stage. The tower features four tall, three-light bell openings with transoms and perpendicular tracery, a quatrefoil frieze above, and battlements. A tall, double-chamfered nave arch connects the tower to the nave.

The north arcade consists of two bays with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The south arcade is similar but slightly taller. Shafted responds support the arcades. A perpendicular clerestory has three two-light windows to the south and two to the north; the four windows to the east are flat-topped. The nave and aisles have a restored, low-pitch, cambered tie-beam roof. The north aisle has five three-light perpendicular windows, the central window being shorter, with a blocked north doorway beneath. The aisle contains good fragments of original 15th-century stained glass. A double-chamfered and moulded chancel arch leads to the chancel. The chancel has a two-light, flat-topped window and a three-light perpendicular window to both the north and south, along with a similar three-light window to the east. A piscina and aumbry are also present. The chancel roof is similar to that of the nave.

At the corner of the chancel, nave, and south aisle, a polygonal rood staircase projects both inside and outside, with a doorway and a carved niche above. The south aisle has similar perpendicular windows, the southeast window featuring 19th-century stained glass. A piscina is present. A small south doorway features a four-centred arch with foliage spandrels. The south aisle houses a 14th-century effigy of a cross-legged knight in a recess, while the north aisle contains a 13th-century effigy of a praying knight, both significantly worn. Historic brasses include one to John Boville, who died in 1467, and his wife, one to John Southill, who died in 1493, and his wife, and a fine incised slab to Elizabeth Havers, who died in 1634, set in a black marble surround. Also present is a 16th-century funerary helmet (altered), a broken octagonal bowl font dating from around 1400, and fragments of medieval bench ends, some carved with blind tracery and coats of arms. A large table tomb commemorates members of the Walker family with inscriptions from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A 18th-century headstone from the churchyard is also incorporated.