Church Of St Peter And St Thomas

The Church of St Peter and St Thomas is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century and a lower stage of the west tower from the 13th century. The entire church underwent extensive restoration and refacing between 1851 and 1859. It features dressed and squared sandstone rubble refacing over an earlier rubble structure, with ashlar dressings and a 20th-century concrete tiled roof, complemented by Welsh slate on the spire.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a north porch, and a chancel. The west tower has three stages and a broach spire, with single 13th-century lancet windows on each side of the lower stage and large 19th-century trefoil-headed lights with hoodmoulds at the bell stage. The buttressed nave has three 19th-century lancets on the left and one on the right of the 19th-century timber-framed north porch, which features a north door dating from around 1200, with a semi-circular head of two orders—an inner chamfered and an outer plain. The south wall has four similar 19th-century lancet windows.

The chancel is also buttressed and has one 19th-century window on both the north and south walls, each with two trefoil-headed lights and a two-centred arched head. The east window features three stepped lights. Inside, there is a 13th-century tower arch with a two-centred head of two chamfered orders and a moulded label. The pulpit incorporates pieces of 18th-century woodwork donated to the church in 1870 from Newnham Paddox in Leicestershire, featuring panels with caryatids in strapwork fetters and one panel depicting the Virgin with Child and St John. Additionally, there are fragments of 18th-century dado panelling in the nave. The chancel contains monuments to the Clive family of Courtfield, including Lady Catherine Clive, who died in 1882, and Charles Clive, who died in 1883.