Church Of St Peter And St Paul

This is a parish church of the 14th century that was virtually rebuilt between 1888 and 1895. It is constructed of ashlar with plain tile and lead roofs, and features a coped gable with a single ridge cross to the east nave, east chancel and north organ chamber. A single stack rises to the north of the chancel. The building is buttressed and set on a moulded plinth.

The church comprises a tower, nave, aisles, south vestry and porch, north organ chamber and chancel. The single-stage tower is angle buttressed and embattled in the 14th-century style, with evidence of single former pinnacles at the angles of the embattlements. A single gargoyle appears on each side. The west side has an attached stair turret with a single light. To its right is a 14th-century arched 3-light window with flowing tracery, above which are two rectangular lights. The north and south sides of the tower have single rectangular lights each. Four two-light 14th-century bell chamber openings with mouchettes sit under flat arches.

The north aisle has a parapet to its single west bay, which projects slightly. In the north wall is a single 2-light window with cusped tracery under a flat arch, with four arched 2-light windows to the left. The clerestory contains four pairs of quatrefoils. The projecting organ chamber to the left has in its north wall two arched windows, each consisting of two blind trefoil arches containing single shields surmounted by decorative bands and two arched lights with cusped tracery, hood mould and label stops. The sill band continues around the chancel, with a single decorative quatrefoil above. The east wall has two tall trefoil arched lights. A single flight of steps leads down to a Caernarvon arched doorway with two similar lights to the left.

The chancel is embattled to the north and south with a decorative band extending underneath. The north wall contains two arched 2-light windows with cusped tracery, with a single gargoyle above them. A continuous hood mould extends around the chancel over the windows, with a single label stop to the right. The angle buttresses of the east chancel terminate in single large crocketed finials. The east wall displays a single arched 3-light window with cusped tracery, each light divided by a single colonnette with outer colonnettes similar. An ogee arched crocketed hood mould with decorative label stops and a single finial crowns this window. In the apex are three niches divided by single pilasters terminating in single crocketed pinnacles; each niche contains a single figure. Further foliate decoration and blind tracery are present, with single carved grotesques at the springing of the gable. The south wall has two gargoyles and three windows similar to those of the north chancel. The vestry projects from beneath the leftmost of these windows and has a parapet. In the east wall is a Caernarvon arched doorway with a single trefoil arched light to the left and a single gargoyle. The south wall has three similar lights and the west wall a single gargoyle.

The south aisle has three arched 2-light windows with hood moulds and label stops. The porch is embattled to the east and west with single gargoyles. The angle buttresses terminate in single large crocketed finials. A moulded arched entrance is supported on each side by two colonnettes, with an ogee arched crocketed hood mould featuring decorative label stops and a finial. Above the finial, set into a crocketed niche, is a single carved figure. The wall is decorated either side with blind tracery, with single crocketed bands extending under and flanking the base of the figure and an inscription below. The side walls each have a single trefoil arched light.

The porch interior features a quadripartite vaulted roof with a single boss and four decorative stops. An inner moulded arched doorway is supported on each side by a single colonnette. The aisle to the left of the porch has a parapet and a single 2-light window with cusped tracery under a flat arch. The clerestory corresponds to that of the north aisle.

The interior contains four-bay 19th-century nave arcades with octagonal columns and responds. Moulded capitals alternate with foliate decorated capitals. Double chamfered arches with hood moulds and decorative label stops to the nave side are present. The tower/south aisle, north aisle and nave all have double chamfered arches, with the inner orders supported on corbels. The north aisle is fitted with decorative iron screens. The moulded south aisle/vestry arch is partly blocked, with a Caernarvon arched doorway featuring a flush ashlar quoin surround. The north aisle/organ chamber moulded arch is supported on a single pair of engaged colonnettes with moulded capitals and an open traceried wooden screen.

The moulded chancel arch is supported on each side by four colonnettes with foliate capitals and shaft rings. The vaulted chancel roof features decorative bosses supported on compound piers with shaft rings and foliate decorated capitals. A moulded chancel/organ chamber arch is present. The chancel windows feature ashlar and marble nook shafts with some open tracery above. Beneath the single central window on the south side and the single window opposite on the north side are open traceried ventilators.

The interior contains a carved ashlar reredos and an organ case decorated with open tracery and carved angels. An open wooden traceried pulpit sits on an ashlar base decorated with tracery and foliate. A circular ashlar font, decorated with quatrefoil panels and supported on colonnettes, is present. Eight decorative iron lamp brackets are mounted throughout. A memorial in the form of a sarcophagus to Catherine Allen (1837) is by Hall of Nottingham. In the westernmost bay of the north aisle is a marble memorial to Harriet Annie Robertson (1891). A decorative tomb is surmounted by a recumbent female figure in contemporary dress falling over the side, with the head supported on several pillows. The tomb is inscribed "G. F. Florence 1894". Further 19th-century memorials are present, and a carved female bust is set on a pedestal. A decorative nave roof completes the interior.