Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church, rebuilt in 1870 in the Early English style by James Fowler. It is constructed from squared limestone rubble with a Collyweston slate roof and decorative clay ridge tiles. The church includes a western tower, an organ chamber, a chancel, a south porch, and a vestry.

The squat, three-stage tower features stepped corner buttresses, an offset top stage resting on moulded corbels, and a battlemented parapet with corner griffins. It has two-light bell openings with trefoils in chamfered surrounds. A facetted stair tower on the south side has a Caernarvon arched door. The west side has a lancet window above a rectangular light. On the north side of the nave are a pair and a single lancet window, each with quatrefoils. The north chapel incorporates a pair and a further lancet window with trefoil head, and a north-facing lancet. The east side has a further lancet and two doorways, one arched. The chancel’s east window is of three cusped lights with a geometric head. Two lancets are situated in the chancel's south wall. The nave’s south wall displays a pair of two-light windows, one with a trefoil above it and the other with a quatrefoil. The gabled south porch has a pointed, moulded outer arch which dies into the reveals. All principal openings exhibit hollow chamfered hoods with foliated stops. The inner doorway is chamfered and pointed.

Inside, the double-chamfered tower arch is supported by moulded corbels. The chancel arch is similarly styled with elaborate, leafy corbels. A low, Tudor arch on the north side of the nave leads to the organ chamber. The chancel features a pair of pointed doorways on the north side and a trefoil-headed piscina. The chancel and aisle are floored with Minton tiles. The chancel east window contains fine, early 20th-century stained glass commemorating Margaret Massingberd (died 1906) of Gunby Hall; the central light contains a portrait of the deceased. The church’s fittings are largely from the 19th century, including an octagonal font in a 13th-century style, with blank pointed arcades at its base, and a stone pulpit.

Monuments within the nave include a pair of fine brasses beneath a double canopy to Thomas Massingberd of Gunby and his wife, Johanna, who died circa 1405, and one to Judge William Lodynton, who died in 1420, depicted with his feet on a dog, beneath a cusped ogee canopy. The tower houses a brass plate within a Rococo-style rectangular frame commemorating Thomas Massingberd (aged 47 years, died 1552), and two 19th-century marble wall plaques.