Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from 1877, designed by James Fowler. It incorporates fragments from the original parish church, which stood on Charles Gate Road, originating from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The church is constructed of coursed greenstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, and has plain tiled roofs with stone coped gables, a cross finial, and a gabled west bellcote featuring a trefoil headed bell opening with a grotesque head as a label stop.

The church consists of a nave, west bellcote, north and south aisles, south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. A plinth runs around the church, with regularly placed two-stage buttresses. The west front features a pointed window with three cusped lights, vertical tracery, and a hood mould; single lancets with chamfered surrounds and hood moulds are also present on the north and south sides, with one label stop broken from the south lancet. The north side of the nave has three windows reusing 15th-century fragments, each with a flattened triangular head, two pointed cusped lights, and ovolo moulded mullions. The north vestry includes a window dating from circa 1300 with two ogee cusped lights, a doorway with a pointed head and chamfered surround, and a plank door. An east window in the vestry also dates from circa 1300, with a single light and cusped ogee head. The east end of the chancel has three 19th-century lancets, with the central one taller, along with a continuous hood mould and label stops. The south side of the chancel features two pairs of 19th-century lancets with hood moulds. The east end of the south aisle holds a lancet with a hood mould, and the south side of the aisle has four reused 14th and 15th-century windows; the east window is rectangular, with three cusped ogee headed lights and reticulated tracery, as well as a hood mould, while the west window has a flattened triangular head, two pointed cusped lights, and a hood mould. A further window beyond the west window features two cusped ogee headed lights. A 19th-century porch has pointed chamfered lights in its east and west walls, and a pointed south doorway with moulded heads and jambs and a hood mould with label stop heads. The interior of the porch contains a stone bench to the west, and a window sill featuring fragments of a 15th-century cross head above. A 14th century south doorway is present with a pointed chamfered head and chamfered jambs. The early 13th-century north and south arcades consist of four bays with pointed double chamfered heads, round piers and 19th-century corbelled responds. The 14th-century chancel arch has a steeply pitched pointed double chamfered head, dying into the walls to the east and west. A 19th-century doorway in the north vestry features a pointed chamfered head, chamfered jambs, a hood mould, and label stops. The east window of the vestry has nook shafts and a hood mould. A small, ornate 19th-century wooden reredos is also present. The church interior features 19th-century pews, an altar rail, pulpit with ashlar base, lecturn, and roofs. A plain 12th-century drum font sits on a 20th-century base.