Church Of St. Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church dating from the 1831 rebuilding by Christopher Turner, which incorporated some earlier fabric. It is constructed of squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, stone coped gables, and crosses fleury. The church comprises a four-stage western tower, a nave, a north porch, a chancel, and a vestry. The tower has an embattled parapet with pinnacles and corner buttresses. A blocked west door features a four-centred arched head with a square label and human head stops. Above the door is a three-light perpendicular style window, a lancet, and paired lights to the belfry stage with panel tracery, square surrounds. The gabled north porch has angle buttresses, a four-centred arched doorway, and a reset 16th-century coat of arms above. The north wall of the nave has two three-light windows with ogee heads to the lights and panel tracery. A similar two-light window is in the chancel wall. The gabled vestry has a protruding stack with octagonal moulded shafts; a single chamfered doorway and a two-light window are in the east wall. The east wall of the chancel has a three-light window with trilobe heads to the lights, panel tracery, a hood mould with human head stops. The south walls of the nave and chancel have three and two windows respectively, matching those to the north. An engaged octagonal stair turret is at the south-east angle of the tower.

Inside, the 1831 tower arch is double chamfered without capitals. The chancel arch is of a similar date, double chamfered with four-centred arches, octagonal responds, and nail head capitals. The nave roof is predominantly 19th century, but incorporates some 16th-century carved wooden figures on the two tie beams. A small 19th-century single chamfered doorway is in the north wall of the chancel, leading to the vestry. A fine 16th-century chancel screen retains its original moulded principals and brattished top. The central opening has two semi-circular headed arches united under a crocketed ogee pinnacle, a motif repeated to either side; the upper part of the screen is filled with quatrefoils and cusped arched panel tracery. The arms of the donor appear over the centre. The church's fittings are mostly 19th century, with the exception of eleven 16th-century poppy head bench ends on the south side of the nave, and a handsome 16th-century octagonal font with panels containing deeply carved beasts and figures, an inscription in Lombardic letters above the panels. A cast metal 18th-century depiction of the Royal Arms is above the chancel arch. By the pulpit is the upper part of a 13th-century grave slab with a low relief cross, a human head, and praying hands, deeply incised, said to originate from Woodhall.