Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Dormington, dating from the late 13th century and significantly restored in 1877 by Blashill. It is constructed of coursed and dressed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring tiled roofs and shingle on the bell-turret. The church comprises a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The three-bay nave has raised verges and three stepped buttresses, with two lights featuring cusped heads to the right of the gabled porch. The west end includes a bell-turret topped with a small broach spire and simple lucarnes, along with a panel displaying a row of cinquefoil-shaped vents below the spire. The two-bay chancel has a raised verge and two pairs of trefoil-headed lights.

Inside, the church features a trussed rafter roof that may retain some 17th-century members. The chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders with heavy imposts and chamfered responds. The font, possibly from the 13th century, has a circular stem on a square base and a circular bowl with a moulded rim and necking. Notable monuments include a wall monument on the south wall of the nave commemorating Margaret Carpender, who died in 1666, featuring a broken pediment supported by draped allegorical figures, and a wall monument on the north wall commemorating John Brydges, who died in 1668, with an open scrolled pediment supported on twisted columns, drapery, and a garland below. The Norman door knocker and the wall painting on the west wall, noted by Pevsner and the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, are now missing.