Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church that dates from the 12th to 13th centuries, with restorations carried out in 1844, 1904, and 1936. It is built from coursed rubble stone with stone dressings and features an ashlar spire, along with leaded and Collyweston slate roofs. The church has stone coped gables and consists of a west tower with a spire, a nave, aisles, a chancel, and a north porch.

The late 13th-century west tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a west doorway, four bell openings with Y tracery, and a short broach spire. It includes a tier of lucarnes with cusped lights and plate tracery, topped with a foliage finial. Inside, there is a triple chamfered nave arch, with the chamfer continuing to the ground. The north arcade has three bays with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, while the early 13th-century south arcade has a similar three bays but features rounded arches.

The clerestory is of the Perpendicular style and has three 2-light flat-topped windows on either side. The north aisle contains a Perpendicular 3-light northeast window and two 2-light flat-topped north windows. The north porch features a single chamfered archway. The chancel arch is double chamfered, with the inner arch resting on polygonal responds. The chancel has three-light flat-topped windows to the north and south, and a similar 2-light window to the east, along with a whitewashed plastered ceiling.

The south aisle mirrors the north with similar 3-light windows and has a reset Norman south doorway. Decorative features include palmette decoration in the imposts, and on the arch, there are three concentric tiers of chip-carved stars, along with a hood mould that has billet moulding. The church also contains a 13th-century octagonal font with an 18th-century cover, some medieval bench ends (a few with poppy-heads), and a Knight Templar coffin slab from around 1260, which is now mounted on the wall near the west door. Additionally, there is an 18th-century communion rail with turned balusters, and on the east wall of the north aisle, three 18th-century slate wall monuments are mounted.