Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building located in Allexon. It dates from the 12th to the 13th century, with significant restoration carried out in 1862 and 1863, which included a new roof and aisles. The church is constructed from coursed squared stone and rubble stone, featuring stone dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone-coped gables.

The structure includes a west tower, nave, aisles, chancel, and a north chancel porch. The 15th-century tower has two stages, with west buttresses, a west window, a blocked south arch, and a blocked window. The southwest staircase has west loopholes and projects to the south. The tower features four two-light bell openings, with the west opening having a later transom, battlements, and a small, low, recessed leaded spirelet topped with a weathervane.

Inside, there is a blocked double chamfered nave arch with a door, and a late Norman two-bay north arcade that was carefully rebuilt in 1862, featuring arches with roll and zig-zag mouldings and a round pier with capitals and responds that have lobed friezes. The south arcade has two bays with double chamfered arches on an octagonal pier. The church has two two-light dormers in the 19th-century roof, which consists of two bays and a half bay at either end, supported by curved braces to the collars.

The north aisle contains windows with plate tracery, including one with fragments of medieval glass. The chancel arch is highly moulded and also rebuilt. The chancel has two windows on the north and south sides, both flat-topped to the east. The east window, dating from 1862, features Decorated tracery and 19th-century stained glass. There is a gabled porch leading to the vestry, likely from 1862, which has a flat-topped doorway and a window with fragments of medieval stained glass. The chancel roof is similar to that of the nave and includes a small north one-light window, a north doorway, and a south piscina.

The south aisle has one-light windows to the west and east, and a flat-topped three-light window to the south. The south doorway is highly moulded with a shaft on either side, and there are medieval carved stone lions couchant on plinths flanking it. Both aisles were rebuilt in 1862 and 1863 after being demolished in the late 16th century. The church also features a 15th-century font.