Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a core dating to the 12th century and 13th century, heavily remodelled in the 15th century, substantially altered in the 17th century, and restored in 1880 by Lynam. It is constructed of coursed, squared and dressed red sandstone with tiled roofs and verge parapets. The church consists of a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles, and a chancel.

The squat, square west tower rises approximately three stages with diagonal buttresses of four stages. It has a raised string under a crenellated parapet, with small pinnacles at the angles. The bell chamber features two-light, almost round-arched openings, and the west window has panel tracery. The clerestory of the nave has three 17th-century four-light chamfer mullion windows. The north aisle, dating to the 13th century, has a flat roof behind the parapet, with buttresses at the angles. It contains 2-, 2-, and 3-light windows, the first pair with curvilinear arches, the second with geometric, all with labelled, virtually round arches. A round arch door is located in the west bay. The south aisle is similar, but all three 3-light windows appear to be from the 19th-century work. A small gabled porch is over the door on the west bay. The chancel, dating to the 12th century, is of similar ridge but with lower eaves, and it has two wide bays divided by thin buttresses with lancets to either side of the east bay. The east window consists of two round-arched lancets with a tall round relieving arch. A small, flat-roofed 19th-century vestry is located on the south side.

Inside, the nave has five bays on round columns with 17th-century round arches; the west bay is shorter and therefore pointed to achieve a similar height. It features an arch braced collar roof with brattished purlins and exposed rafters. A pointed 19th-century chancel arch was designed by Lynam, and the chancel roof is of trussed rafters. The aisles are beamed. The pulpit is 17th-century oak, octagonal, with miniature blind panel arcading. There is a stone, octagonal font on an octagonal plinth. The church contains glass by Kempe, Holiday and Selwyn Image. Monuments include a 17th-century painted Parker monument with a broken segmental pediment, and a Sir Thomas Parker marble plaque from 1784 featuring an obelisk finial and figured urn. Also present is a Countess of St. Vincent monument from 1816 by Chantrey, a 1643 George Graddock monument depicting an exuberantly powerful baroque high relief pedestal and urn, and a Matthew Craddock painted plaque. The Craddock family were responsible for work at Caverswall Castle.