Church Of St Peter And St Lawrence

A parish church of 12th- to 15th-century date, substantially restored in 1868 by architect G. G. Scott. The building is constructed of squared limestone rubble and ashlar, with plain tiled and lead roofs and stone coped gables. It comprises a western tower, nave, chancel, south aisle and porch.

The tower, rebuilt by Scott, is of three stages and has a moulded plinth, string course, and coved cornice with gargoyles at the angles and corner buttresses. The four-light west window displays trefoil heads to its lights with a central oval motif containing mouchettes and a quatrefoil. The belfry stage has paired cusped-headed lights set in chamfered arches on all four sides, and a projecting stair turret rises at the north-east angle.

The north wall of the nave contains a single chamfered round-headed 12th-century blocked doorway. Higher up is a 15th-century three-light window with trefoil heads to the lights and perpendicular panels above, set within a rounded arch with hood mould and beast-head stops. Further east runs an interrupted keeled string course with 19th-century head terminals, beneath which is a recut three-light 14th-century window with cusped ogee heads to the lights and flat lintel. The 15th-century east window is set in a single-chamfered four-centred arched surround containing three tightly cusped-headed lights and a brattished transome. Above this is a 19th-century niche flanked by small ogee-headed lights.

The south wall of the chancel contains a three-light window matching that on the north, but with a reset 14th-century head above. The south aisle, which has a lead roof, displays a 14th-century four-light window with cusped ogee heads set beneath a segmental chamfered arch. The south and west walls of the aisle each contain a single three-light 14th-century window with cusped heads and flat lintels.

The porch, a 19th-century addition in gabled ashlar with a lead roof, has an outer continuously moulded doorway with flying angel capitals bearing shields. Inside, the restored continuously moulded 14th-century doorway survives, complete with its original wooden door. This door retains contemporary closing ring and decorative iron fixing plate, is diagonally braced to the rear, and preserves its wrought iron hinges.

The interior features a late 13th-century three-bay south arcade with double-chamfered arches, octagonal piers and capitals. The 19th-century tower arch has three chamfered arches and octagonal responds. The south aisle contains a 14th-century piscina with cusped ogee head and human-head stops, and the east wall holds two repositioned 14th-century corbels and a small head. A blocked segmental-headed doorway appears in the nave north wall.

The principal roof members of the nave and aisle are moulded with cusped braces to the angles, probably 15th-century work. The nave and chancel are structurally undifferentiated. A reassembled 15th-century screen of four lights to either side of the central opening is surmounted by a cusped ogee arch; the lights have cusped heads with mouchettes. The chancel contains a 19th-century carved and painted wooden reredos.

Fittings are predominantly 19th-century except for the 14th-century octagonal font bowl, set on a later base. Remnants of 14th-century stained glass, comprising three heraldic panels, remain in the more easterly south aisle window. The chancel contains three stained glass windows dating to circa 1889.

A brass monument to Henry Millner (died 1635) is set into the east wall of the south aisle. It depicts a corpse in a winding sheet with arms above, surrounded by an elaborate frame bearing guilloche decoration with cornice.