Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from 1867, designed by T. C. Hine of Nottingham. It was built in the style of the 13th century using rock-faced limestone ashlar with contrasting red sandstone dressings. The roofs are tiled with raised stone coped gables, decorative kneelers, and crosses fleury. The church comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, north porch, and vestry.

The west tower has three stages with angled buttresses. It features paired pointed lights with circular openings in the tympana, nook shafts on all four faces of the belfry stage, a wheel window with a moulded surround and lobes separated by colonettes on the west wall, and a single lancet above. The broach spire features large coursed lucarnes in the principal directions, each with stone gables and floriate terminals. The north porch is gabled with a pointed doorway, leading to a single chamfered doorway without capitals. It has paired quatrefoil lights in the side walls. The north nave wall incorporates two paired lights with plate tracery and four quatrefoil vents at the wallhead. The north chancel wall has two lancets, while the chancel’s east window comprises three lights of plate tracery with an octofoil above. The south chancel window is a paired light with plate tracery. The attached vestry has a single lancet east light and a shaped ashlar chimney stack to the southwest angle. The south nave wall includes a single three-light window with an octofoil in the head, two two-light windows with cinquefoils above, and four quatrefoil vents at the top of the wall. All windows feature hoodmoulds with human head stops and arches constructed from alternating limestone and red sandstone.

Inside, the tall, double-chamfered tower arch dies into imposts. The chancel arch is also double-chamfered and stilted, with octagonal capitals and responds. The chancel features a painted wooden ceiling with hobnail-decorated cornices and corbels; behind the altar is a reredos with five small arches springing from marble colonettes. A trefoil-headed gabled aumbry is surmounted by a cross in the north wall. Oak chancel and tower screens are in the Perpendicular style. An octagonal font is decorated with floriate panels and has a fine brass-mounted cover. There are also three brass two-tier candelabra. The other fittings all date from 1867.