Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church built in 1879 by Bateman and Courser. It features rock-faced ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof with coped verges. The church has a north-west tower, a 4-bay nave with a north aisle, a north-east transept, and a polygonal apse flanked by a vestry and an organ chamber, all designed in the Gothic style.

The tower consists of three stages, marked by strings, with angle buttresses that die into the second stage. It has corner pinnacles and a recessed stone spire, which is adorned with a frieze of quatrefoils at its base. The pointed west doorway features two wave-moulded orders and a double-leaf plank door. The first stage has single-light pointed windows, while the second stage has pointed windows with two trefoil-headed lights and two roll and fillet-moulded orders springing from colonettes.

The nave and aisle contain square-headed windows of two lights with unorthodox Decorated tracery, as well as sexfoiled clerestory lights. The pointed west window features cusped intersecting tracery. The north transept has a pointed three-light window with Geometrical tracery, mirrored by a similar window in the south wall. The chancel apse is adorned with three-light pointed windows also featuring Geometrical tracery.

Inside, there is a 4-bay north arcade with pointed arches of two chamfered orders, supported by cylindrical columns with moulded capitals and bases. The roof is arch-braced with collar beams and king-posts above the collars, with arch braces springing from colonettes on corbels. The pointed chancel arch leads to a vaulted chancel with roll and fillet moulded ribs, featuring green man heads as imposts. The chancel windows have hood moulds with stiff leaf stops, and all three eastern windows contain stained glass.

Notable fittings include a good octagonal font with a panelled basin and colonettes at the angles, as well as an octagonal pulpit with panelled and traceried sides and a pedestal.