Church Of St Peter

A parish church of 13th, 14th and 15th-century date, restored in 1864, further restored and with a vestry added by Goddard and Son in 1867, and the nave restored by R. H. Carpenter in 1873. The building is constructed of coursed and squared ironstone and limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings, under patterned tile and aluminium roofs. It features chamfered and moulded plinths, ashlar quoins, moulded coped parapets and gables with cross finials and a single stone lateral stack.

The church comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clerestory, north aisle, north transept, vestry, chancel, south transept, south aisle and south porch.

The unbuttressed west tower dates to the 13th and 14th centuries and rises in four stages. It has a plinth, three string courses, a fleuron frieze with four gargoyles and a crenellated parapet. Above sits a set-back octagonal spire with two tiers of gabled lucarnes containing double lancets, the upper tier decorated with crosses, a finial and weathercock. The first stage has a 13th-century style single lancet to the west and a similar smaller lancet to the south. The second stage contains single 13th-century lancets to the west and south, the southern lancet flanked to the left by a sundial. The third stage has double lancet bell openings with hood moulds on each side, with clock dials to the west and north dating to the early 19th century. The fourth stage is ashlar with four cusped ogee double lancet bell openings with panel tracery, moulded reveals and hood moulds.

The 15th-century clerestory comprises four bays, each with four ogee triple lancets with panel tracery and segmental arched heads with hood moulds. The east gable contains a double lancet in the same style and bears a cross.

The north aisle contains two bays with two angle buttresses and coved eaves. Its north side features an ogee-headed 14th-century blocked doorway with hood mould and mask stops, flanked to the east by a memorial tablet dated 1849 and beyond. Further east stands an ogee triple lancet with panel tracery and hood mould. The west end retains a restored Decorated ogee triple lancet with hood mould and mask stops.

The north transept has a 15th-century four-light ogee lancet with billeted transom and panel tracery on its north side, with moulded reveal and hood mould. The east side contains a 15th-century triple ogee lancet with flat head and hood mould.

The vestry, added in 1867, has a 13th-century style double lancet to the north and a similar double lancet to the east, both dating to 1894 and featuring hood moulds.

The chancel's north side contains a late 15th-century ogee triple lancet with panel tracery, moulded reveal and hood mould to the west. The east end has two angle buttresses, a chamfered sill band and a gable with cross. A geometrical five-light lancet window of 1864 has a moulded reveal and hood mould. The south side, comprising two bays, features a sill band and an off-centre buttress flanked to the west by a plain chamfered doorway. Beyond this, on either side, stands a 15th-century triple lancet with panel tracery, moulded reveal and hood mould.

The south transept bears a late 15th-century triple lancet with ogee central light, segmental pointed head and hood mould to the south. Its west side contains a restored Tudor arched doorway with hood mould and mask stops.

The south aisle, comprising two bays, has a 15th-century transomed triple lancet with ogee central light and four-centred arched head with hood mould to the east. The west end preserves an early 14th-century double lancet with Y tracery and hood mould.

The south porch has a restored chamfered and moulded doorway with octagonal shafts, hood mould and mask stops, and retains a pair of iron gates dated 1899.

The interior contains stone benches and a common rafter roof with a 19th-century hanging lamp. The 14th-century south doorway features deep filleted moulding and hood mould. The tower chamber holds a stained-glass west window of 1864 and an iron spiral staircase of 1868.

The nave arcades, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, comprise three bays with square piers set diagonally, each bearing four half-round projections and half-octagonal responds. The north-east pier has a capital with heads, the south-east pier bears a capital with angels, and the remaining piers have octagonal capitals. The arches are double-chamfered and rebated with hood moulds displaying fine mask stops. A restored 15th-century roof features arch braces and wall shafts on mask corbels. The east window contains patterned stained glass.

The north aisle east end contains a 13th-century double-chamfered and rebated archway with fillet-moulded responds, hood mould and mask stops. Its windows display patterned stained glass. The restored roof has mask corbels dating to the 14th and 19th centuries. The north transept holds patterned stained-glass windows and a low-pitched roof on corbels of 1866.

The south aisle east end preserves a 13th-century archway of identical design to that in the north aisle, with patterned stained-glass windows and a lean-to roof with arch braces of 1895 on mask corbels. The south transept contains a 13th-century squint to the north-east and a 19th-century ceiling.

The chancel features a double-chamfered and rebated late 13th-century arch with hood mould and mask stops, and keeled responds with capitals bearing dogtooth bands. The east end has a tiled reredos and stained-glass window by A. Gibbs of 1864. The south side contains a 13th-century chamfered piscina and aumbry to the east, alongside 13th-century sedilia with round shafts. A stained-glass window by A. Gibbs dates to 1881. The arch-braced roof with traceried spandrels and wall shafts of 1867 rests on mask corbels.

Fittings include an octagonal 15th-century font with saltire cross and quatrefoil panels; a 14th-century triple-arched stone altar; stalls of 1867; panelled benches with poppyheads of 1873; a pierced traceried octagonal pulpit of 1894; a donations board of 1850; and a 19th-century lectern. An early 18th-century carved cupboard and panel, and an 18th-century chest with drawers are also present.

Monuments comprise a large effigy of a knight of the late 13th century; a chest tomb with shields in quatrefoil panels and an incised slab to Sir Thomas Berkley and wife of 1488; a brass of 1521; rolls of honour of 1919 and 1945; and two 20th-century brasses.