Church Of St Peter

Parish church with origins in the 12th century, substantially enlarged during the 13th to 15th centuries, and comprehensively restored in 1861 by Bellamy and Hardy. The building is constructed of squared ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, roofed in concrete tiles concealed behind parapets.

The church comprises a western tower, nave, north aisle, chancel, north chapel, and south porch. The tower dates to the 15th century and rises in three stages with a moulded plinth, stepped-angle buttresses, two chamfered string courses, and an embattled parapet with crocketted angle pinnacles. The west doorway features a four-centred arched head with a sunk wave moulded and concave moulded hood surround. The first stage retains small lights with repositioned 12th-century round heads in limestone on the west and south walls. The belfry stage contains paired cusped ogee-headed lights with panel tracery set within four-centred arched surrounds with hood moulds.

The west wall of the north aisle, rebuilt externally in 1861, displays a reset early 14th-century geometric window of three lights with a central cinquefoil. The north aisle wall has two 19th-century doorways and four paired lights with quatrefoils, while its east wall features a 19th-century window matching the west wall pattern. The chancel's north window is 14th-century with three lights and unusually-executed reticulated tracery in ironstone. The 15th-century chancel east window comprises five lights with ogee heads having panel tracery beneath a four-centred arch.

The south walls of the nave and chancel are undifferentiated beneath an embattled parapet with angle pinnacles. A 14th-century pointed-headed priests' door is positioned to the left of a small trefoil-headed light retaining medieval stained glass in its upper parts; this light is cut from a reused 13th-century grave slab with an incised cross base. Three 15th-century four-light windows with trefoil heads and panel tracery with triangular heads appear in the south nave wall, with a similar three-light window beyond the porch. The south porch, a 19th-century gabled structure with pinnacles, has an outer pointed doorway with moulded head.

The mid-12th-century south doorway is particularly fine, featuring three deeply cut decorative orders comprising dogtooth with chevrons, castellations, and beakheads. The hood carries billet moulding with debased cable moulding around the periphery. The arch does not fit the narrow engaged cylindrical responds, making its original position uncertain; the lower parts and some voussoirs are 19th-century replacements.

Internally, a small single-chamfered doorway provides access to the tower. The three-bay north nave arcade, dating to circa 1200, has circular piers and responds with octagonal capitals and keeled mouldings around the arch heads. The chancel arch is primarily 13th-century in its present form, featuring keeled responds and a double-chamfered head, with mid-12th-century scalloped capitals. To either side of the responds are curious scalloped motifs surrounded by circular pellets, also 12th-century work. A double-chamfered 13th-century arch at the end of the north aisle opens into the north chapel. In the chancel's north wall, a double-chamfered pointed arch with a concave outer order leads to the north chapel, with a 19th-century shouldered doorway further east. The small south window retains a triangular rear arch.

The furnishings are predominantly 19th-century except for the screen and font. The oak screen contains unrestored 15th-century sections with panel tracery. The circular early 12th-century font bowl features blank arcading. A 19th-century octagonal font with quatrefoils removed from the demolished Church of St Paul stands in the chancel. A handsome cut-down 15th-century carved bench end is positioned by the chancel screen.

The chancel contains an early 14th-century priest's gravestone with a crocketted canopy and pinnacles, showing the priest holding a chalice with finely carved vestments; this stone also came from the Church of St Paul. In the chancel's north wall is a marble plaque in the form of an obelisk dated 1747, with pediment and rococo cartouche.