Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with origins in the 12th century, significantly remodelled and extended in the 13th and 14th centuries, and restored in 1858. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof. The church comprises a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel under a continuous roof. A late 13th or early 14th century ashlar west tower with a spire is prominent, along with a north organ chamber dated 1899 and a late 19th century south porch.

The west tower has three stages without dividing string courses, with large offsets at the base, diagonal buttresses to the north-west and south-west, and a stair turret on the south side adjacent to the south-east buttress. It features two water spouts on each face below a plain parapet and a recessed ashlar spire with lucarnes near the top, and trefoiled 2-centred openings at its base. The west window is a hooded lancet; the first storey has trefoil-headed lancets on the north and south sides. A blocked north doorway retains a 12th century semi-circular arch with heavy roll mouldings, similar to the south doorway. A 15th century north-west window has two trefoil-headed lights under a square head. The main south window likely dates from the 19th century, with three lights and cinque-foil heads. An east lancet window on the north wall is from the 13th century, and to its west is a 14th century 2-light ogee-headed window. The chancel has a 19th century 3-light east window, and two restored lancets on the south wall.

The interior has a late 19th century wagon roof with scissor bracing above the nave, while the chancel roof is ceiled. A large moulded arched truss marks the liturgical division across the chancel, and partially incorporates a heavily restored screen, possibly from the 15th century. The tower arch is 2-centred with three orders of chamfered mouldings, terminating in corbel heads. A screen, perhaps part of a 15th century rood loft but now restored, has a crested beam above eight open panels with ogee traceried heads. A 13th-century trefoil-headed piscina is set within the south wall of the nave, accompanied by a contemporary recess under a 2-centred arch. Original features include a 17th century communion table with balustered legs and three contemporary chairs. A late 19th-century font has six marble shafts with stiff-leaf capitals supporting a sexfoil-shaped bowl. A plaque in the north-west of the chancel commemorates William Saxeye, chief justice of Munster, who died in 1612, bearing the inscription "E HERE LYETH Y BODYE OF WILLIAM SAXEYE ESQVIER IVSTICE OF PEACE & CORAM IN THIS COVNTY OF HERIFORD HE WAS CHEEFE IVSTICE OF YE PROVINCE OF MVNSTER IN IRLAND FOR YE SPACE OF XV OR XVI YEARES HE WAS BORNE AT BRISTOLL AND DIED AT LITTLE THINGILL THE VII th OF FEBRVARY IN THE YERE OF OVR LORD GOD 1612."