Church Of St Mary And St Peter

The Church of St Mary and St Peter is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations in the 15th century and a restoration around 1860 by James Fowler. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof featuring decorative ridge tiles and stone coped gables adorned with 19th-century crosses fleury.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a chancel, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a vestry. The three-stage west tower has a moulded plinth, two chamfered string courses, and an embattled parapet. The west wall incorporates stepped buttresses to the first stage, a 2-light 19th-century window, and a clock above. The belfry stage has 15th-century double lights with deep chamfered reveals and pointed heads under 4-centred arches on all four sides. A 15th-century doorway with a 4-centred arched head provides access to the tower stair, which rises in the northeast angle.

The north aisle has a plinth and contains a 19th-century lancet on the west wall, along with two 19th-century 2-light windows. A blocked early 13th-century pointed doorway, simply moulded imposts, and a chamfered hood would are also present. The easternmost window on the north side is late 13th century, featuring two lights with trefoils above, within a chamfered surround with a hood mould and a single surviving human head label stop. The clerestory features three 19th-century cusped lights in circular frames. The 19th-century vestry, located on the north side of the chancel, contains a contemporary lancet window. The east wall of the chancel has three stepped 19th-century lancets with a hood mould and shield label stops, while the south side has two similar lancets.

The east and west walls of the south aisle contain 13th-century lancets, and a late 13th-century cross fleury tombstone head is reused as a quoin on the east wall. The south wall has two 19th-century paired lights. A 19th-century round chimney rests on a square base near the southeast angle of the nave. The 19th-century gabled south porch has a moulded outer arch with leafy label stops, and the south doorway is a heavily restored 13th-century opening featuring nook shafts with conceptual foliage capitals, a double roll moulded head, a continuing outer order of dog tooth decoration, and revealing details.

The interior features early 13th-century three-bay arcades with double chamfered arches, quatrefoil keeled piers, annular capitals, and simply chamfered hood moulds with 19th-century leafy label stops. The 13th-century tower arch has two chamfered orders that die into the responds. A blocked niche is located at the southeast angle of the nave. The 13th-century chancel arch has keeled responds, foliate, hob nailed capitals with 19th-century bases. The roofs and fittings are 19th-century, including an interesting latticed and arched iron screen to the tower.