Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating to the early 18th century, with the roof pitch raised in 1792 and further alterations in 1825. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof with overhanging eaves. The church stands on a brick and chamfered ashlar plinth. It is one and a half storeys high, with a first-floor ashlar band. The building comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof.

The west end features an octagonal turret erected in 1825, with two circular openings on each side. The west wall has a doorway with a moulded ashlar architrave and an ashlar pediment. Flanking the doorway are two blocked round arched window openings with ashlar impost and key blocks. Above is an oval blocked window opening surrounded by ashlar, with four key blocks. Recessed segmental arched panels with ashlar keystones are on either side of the oval window. The north wall has five round arched windows with ashlar key and impost blocks and lead glazing bars, with five blind rectangular recessed panels above them. The east wall mirrors this arrangement with three round arched blind windows and three segmental arched recessed blind panels with ashlar keystones. A small circular opening sits in the apex of the roof. The south side is similar to the north.

Inside, the church retains complete 18th-century internal woodwork, including tiered box pews facing inwards, featuring fluted pilasters and fielded panels. A similar three-decker pulpit has turned balusters and a tester with an entablature and marquetry soffit. Both the pews and pulpit include brass candlesticks. A curved reredos with fielded panels, fluted Corinthian columns, and a segmental pediment topped with finials is present. A dentil cornice runs along the entire east wall. The communion rails have turned balusters. A west gallery, supported by two fluted columns, is fitted with brass candlesticks. The doorway beneath leads to an inner west porch with a panelled double door and fanlight, framed by a fluted architrave with a panelled reveal. The moulded plaster ceiling incorporates an egg and dart design, as well as a dentil cornice, with two decorative brackets above the reredos.

Also inside is a 15th-century ashlar font with blind cusped tracery to the bowl and pedestal, covered by an early 18th-century wooden domed cover. Three hatchments and a late 18th-century wall tablet are also present. In the porch are remnants of a 13th-century decorated Crucifixus.