Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church largely dating from the Decorated period (early 14th century), although it contains earlier internal features. The building is constructed of coursed and squared limestone with ashlar dressings. It comprises a west tower and spire, a nave with two aisles and clerestory, and a chancel.

The west tower has three stages, with clasping buttresses and tall paired, foiled bell chamber lights set in deep embrasures. It is topped by an embattled parapet with small angle pinnacles and a recessed spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The aisle and clerestory also have embattled parapets. A wide, coped gabled porch leads to the south door. The windows of the aisle and clerestory are in the Decorated style, featuring three lights with slightly trefoiled heads. Chancel windows are tall and narrow. A plain parapet with gargoyles sits atop a cornice, and the east wall features a wide 15th-century east window of five lights. A stair turret is located in the northeast angle of the nave and chancel.

The interior has been restored, and features a 13th-century tower arch, which is steep, narrow, and deeply moulded. The nave arcade consists of four bays on each side, with slender, clustered cylindrical shafts and hollow, roll-moulded arches. The central shaft on the aisle side continues to articulate the clerestory, functioning as part of the former roof structure. The roof is from the 15th century, with angel corbelheads and shallow cambered ties. The chancel arch is wide, with slim cylindrical shafts and an outer hollow chamfer, paired lights in the east nave wall above it. A projecting, angled stair turret in the northeast angle of the north aisle leads to a former rood with an ogee-arched doorway. A richly wrought, openwork wood Victorian screen is present, alongside a mosaic floor in the chancel. The 5-light east window is flanked by empty statue niches. The chancel includes sedilia with fan vaulting. North and south windows are high and low, contained in full-height braziers.

Monuments include a marble black and white sarcophagus wall tablet, surmounted by a single column, in the north aisle, commemorating Sir Wolstan Dixie, who died in 1767. In the chancel, a reclining female figure, representing the wife of John Dixie who died in 1846, is located in a north window recess. The stained glass is varied, including simple emblems in the clerestory, a gaudy narrative from 1904 in the south aisle, stained glass saints above the chancel arch, and undated glass by Kempe in the east window, depicting the Annunciation of the Birth of Christ within a landscape setting with architectural niches and saints in towers. The font is an octagonal basin with ornate, recessed traceried panels, some traces of paint remaining on the shields. It is supported by four filletted shafts, probably dating from the 14th century. A wrought iron font cover from the 19th century is also present.