Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church that features a chancel from the 16th century, with the rest of the building completed in 1741 by John Wing the Elder of Leicester for William Fortrey. It is constructed from ashlar and coursed squared stone, with stone dressings and a leaded roof, topped with a parapet on the nave. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and south porch.

The tower consists of three stages in a Gothic style but incorporates mainly classical details. It has a plinth, clasping buttresses, and a west round-arched doorway with a keystone and imposts, leading to a two-leaved five-panelled door with a panelled semicircle above. There are semicircular windows on the north and south sides, bull's eye windows, and a clock face on the second stage. Above this, there is a running band frieze and a cornice band. The tower features four tall round-arched bell-openings, with the key stones linked to the cornice above. The parapet has a cornice that rises at the corners, adorned with four obelisks in the middle and four corner pinnacles, which have fluting, volutes, and pagoda-like tops resembling tulip vases.

The nave has buttresses with set-offs and three three-light windows in the Late Perpendicular style on either side, complete with hood moulds, transoms, and cusped lights. There is a rounded tower arch leading to the nave and a five-bay low-pitch tie beam roof. The chancel features a double chamfered chancel arch, a north window, and an 18th-century north door. The east window is a five-light Late Perpendicular window with stained glass dating from 1844. The south window includes a piscina and a blocked window, and the chancel has a four-bay low-pitch tie beam roof.

The south porch has a flat roof and a round-arched doorway with a keystone and imposts, leading to a two-leaved five-panelled door and a two-pane fanlight. Inside the church, there is a marble baluster font, the upper part of a former two-decker pulpit, a restored 18th-century oak communion rail with turned balusters, and a wall monument from 1728.