Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a parish church with a history spanning from the 12th century through the 19th century, and including restoration work in 1891. It is constructed from ashlar and squared coursed limestone rubble, with lead roofs. The church comprises a western tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a south porch, and a chancel.

The three-stage tower has a plinth, chamfered string course, battlemented parapet, stepped buttresses, and an octagonal south-western stair turret. A recessed spire features lucarnes, and the belfry has C15 two-light panelled traceried openings on each side. A round-headed C12 west door, possibly reset, is accompanied by a C12 window with collared nook shafts, foliate capitals, and a chevron-moulded rounded head. The C14 north aisle has a two-light west window and three three-light side windows with reticulated tracery; a blocked, continuously moulded and pointed C14 door is also present. Eight three-light C15 clerestory windows, each with a chamfered surround and embattled parapet, are further complemented by a reset two-light matching window in the C19 ashlar organ chamber, and a four-light C19 east window to the chancel with panel tracery. A frieze of fleurons runs along the string course. The south aisle contains C14 three-light east and west windows, plus three similar windows to the south, all featuring cusped reticulated tracery. A gabled C19 south porch has a reset C13 outer arch with shafted reveals, a stiff leaf frieze, and a moulded head. Its C13 inner doorway is double-chamfered with a moulded hood.

Inside, the four-bay late C13 nave arcades have quatrefoil filleted shafts with annular capitals and moulded heads. A C13 tower arch is chamfered, with a step, octagonal reveals, and capitals, cutting through blocked C12 single arches on either side, above which the earlier nave roof line is visible. The nave roof itself dates to the C15 and features moulded principals. The south aisle includes a C14 trefoil-headed piscina, a plain aumbry, and a sill with a row of human heads above a tomb recess. The C14 chancel arch has wave moulded reveals, annular capitals, and a moulded head, with an arch leading to a rood loft behind it. A C19 arch in the chancel leads to the organ chamber, and the chancel has a C19 roof with oversized corbels. Fittings include C17 plain baluster altar rails, a C17 octagonal pulpit with chip carved panels and a dentillated frieze, and remnants of a much-restored C15 chancel screen comprising five panel traceried bays with cusped ogee arches. A C19 octagonal ashlar font is also present.