Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Lee Brockhurst, dating from the mid-12th century, with restorations and extensions made in 1884. It is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble, with the 19th-century additions being more evenly dressed and coursed. The roof is covered with machine tiles and features coped verges on kneelers. The church comprises a nave with a west bellcote, a chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and a brick store shed.

The nave includes a small round-headed 12th-century window on both the north and south sides, along with an early 15th-century square-headed west window that has three cusped lights. To the east of the 12th-century window on the south side is a square-headed window, likely from the late 16th or 17th century, which has had its mullion removed. The south doorway, dating from the 12th century, features one order of shafts with scalloped capitals and chevron ornamentation on both the extrados and intrados of the arch, with an impost on the right side that has cable moulding. The massive nail-studded plank door, equipped with fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges, is probably late medieval or from the 17th century.

The gabled west bellcote has twin round-headed bell openings, and the timber porch on low sandstone walls was added in 1884. The short one-bay chancel, also from 1884, has single trefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds on both the north and south sides, and a three-light window on the east. The gabled vestry, located at the junction of the nave and chancel, was built in 1884, as was the lean-to brick shed adjoining to the west.

Inside, the church is very plain, featuring late 19th-century trussed rafter roofs in both the nave and chancel. The deep single-splays of the 12th-century windows are visible. Some 18th-century panelling, likely from former box-pews, has been reused as wainscoting in the nave, while the rest of the fittings and furnishings date from the late 19th century or later. There is a wall memorial in the nave, on the north side, dedicated to John Henshaw of Wem, an attorney who died in 1801.