Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Street in Swepstone. It dates from the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries and features a west tower, a nave with aisles, and a chancel. The structure is primarily 14th century, with a 15th-century clerestory. The tower was cased in ashlar in 1842, the chancel was rebuilt in 1869, and the south porch was added in 1870. The church is constructed of coursed rubble and ashlar, topped with a plain tiled roof that has stone-coped gables on the chancel and porch, and battlements on the nave, aisles, and tower. It has buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs throughout. Most windows feature hood-moulds with carved head label stops. The tower has two stages, with Perpendicular lights in the belfry, a west window with cusped Y tracery, a small west door, and pinnacles. The north aisle's west window has intersected tracery, while others are renewed in Curvilinear style. There is a blocked north door, and the south aisle's east window has intersected tracery, with the south door featuring a hood-mould. The chancel windows are in the Curvilinear style.

Inside, the church has four bay arcades with double chamfered arches that die into the wall. The restored low-pitched roof consists of four bays with cambered moulded tie beams, wall-pieces, and braces supported by renewed stone corbels. The flat-topped two-light clerestory windows have Perpendicular tracery, and the chancel has a boarded arched roof. The church contains 19th-century pews, boxed in aisles, finely carved choir stalls from 1886, and a pulpit from 1887. There is an organ with painted front pipes and 19th-century stained glass in the east and southeast windows, with a northeast window by Powell, Highgate, dating to around 1930. The church also features 17th to 19th-century wall monuments, an alabaster tomb chest with the effigy of William Humfrey from 1591, and a medieval effigy of a lady in a wimple on an embattled arcaded tomb chest decorated with shields within quatrefoils. Additionally, there is a small cusp-headed niche in the south aisle.