Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter was built in 1875-6 by F Preedy. It is constructed of snecked blue lias rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a tile roof with cresting. The plan includes a two-bay chancel with transepts, and a three-bay nave with a south-west porch-tower.

The church’s exterior features offset buttresses and coped gables with crosses. The chancel has a three-light east window with stepped and cusped lancets, and single-light north and south windows. The north transept has a three-light north window with cusped lancets, a cusped east light, and a pointed west entrance. The south transept has an end stack and a two-light south window with a cinquefoil above, a small east light above a basement entrance, and a pointed west entrance. The nave has windows of three and two lights between buttresses, with Geometrical and intersecting tracery; the west side has a four-light window with a trefoil-headed light over and an angle buttress to the left. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses, string courses, a top corbelled cornice with gargoyles, and a parapet with pierced tracery. A pointed south entrance arch has continuous moulding, and the tower has east and west lancets; a canted stair turret is located to the east. The second stage has a cusped lancet to the south and west, and the bell-stage has paired pointed bell-openings with stone louvres.

The interior features arch-braced collar roofs, which are more elaborate in the nave. The chancel has a shafted east window and a credence shelf with a shouldered lintel; the chancel arch rests on short, corbelled piers. Segmental-pointed transept arches die into the jambs. A vestry and organ loft is located in the south transept, along with a trefoil-headed piscina to the west. The nave has segmental-pointed tomb recesses to the north and south, and a similar recess to the west. The porch has a single-chamfered inner entrance with paired doors, and a segmental-pointed stair entrance to the east, along with a foundation stone to the west.

Furnishings include simple stalls and an altar rail. A low stone wall supports an open traceried chancel screen with a rood. The timber pulpit sits on a stone base with trefoil arches over foliage panels. A restored 15th-century font has a 17th-century wooden cover with ogival ribs supporting a finial.

Tomb recesses contain coffin lids dating from about 1300 and 1320-30, featuring crosses. East window stained glass is from 1876. Several windows were created by Kempe, and others include a 1913 north-east nave window of the Nativity incorporating a 15th or 16th century shield with Greville Arms, a 1909 south-west nave window of the Baptism of Christ, and a 1915 west window commemorating Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition (Lady Scott was the Rector's daughter).