Church Of St Peter

Parish Church. Built in 1742, with a late 19th-century chancel rebuilding. Designed by Richard Trubshaw. Constructed of red brick with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and featuring a plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles to the chancel, and coped verges. The church is in a Classical style, incorporating a West Tower, a four-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel with angle buttresses, and a North vestry.

The West Tower has two stages, topped with an octagonal cupola featuring a leaded roof, a ball finial, and a weather vane. A round-headed West doorway has a keyed surround, the semi-circular head blocked with ashlar and a projecting corbel decorated with a vanquished dragon, supporting a statue of St. George, which is part of a memorial from the First World War. A circular keyed oculus sits above the doorway, and a blind round-headed window is on the south side, with a raised keystone. The second stage is marked by a stone band, with louvred round-headed windows with raised keys to the north, south, and west sides; the western window is above a clock within a moulded stone surround. The cupola has similar louvred windows to each side, with the eastern window being blind. The nave has round-headed windows with keyed surrounds. The chancel is in a Gothic style, with pointed windows featuring two cinquefoil-headed lights and cusped tracery. The vestry has a pointed door to the north and a pointed window to the south.

Inside, the chancel arch is pointed, with an outer chamfered arch and an inner ovolo-moulded arch springing from marble shafts with foliated capitals and corbel bases. The nave roof is of king post construction, with braces extending from the king post to the principals, and angle struts extended from the tie beam to the principals. There are two pairs of purlins. The West tower has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. Fittings include a plain octagonal stone font, a hexagonal wooden pulpit with splat balusters linked to the north wall, and a panelled wooden dado along the nave, as well as a complete set of benches. Balustrated wooden rails are at the entrance to the chancel and the sanctuary, believed to be parts of a single altar rail originally. Monuments include an alabaster chest tomb dedicated to Walter Vernon, who died in 1592, and his wife Mary Littleton, with a slab incised with two figures. There are also marble wall tablets to Robert Deaville, who died in 1831, and to William Towers Minors Esq., who died in 1801.