Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating to the late 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the mid-14th and early 15th centuries. It underwent restoration in 1637, and further repairs in the 19th and 20th centuries. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar and lias, with sandstone ashlar dressings, and features machine tile roofs. It is laid out with a west tower, nave, north transept, and chancel.

The two-stage west tower, built in the early 15th century, has a crenellated parapet, eroded gargoyles at the corners (corner pinnacles now lost), diagonal buttresses, and a string course. The belfry stage contains a window of two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head with a label, while the ground stage has a two-trefoiled-light window under a 2-centred head. The nave's south wall largely dates from the 12th century, with the rest rebuilt in the early 15th century. A central early 15th century timber-framed porch, mostly rendered with a Tudor-arch opening, is flanked on the left by a single-light square-headed window in a chamfered reveal and on the right by a restored three-trefoiled-light window under a square head. A blocked north door has a segmental 2-centred head with impost blocks and chamfered jambs. The mid-14th century north transept's north window has two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head in a chamfered reveal, while the east window features three trefoiled lights under a square head. The chancel was rebuilt mid-14th century, and its south wall contains a single-light square-headed window to the left, a window of three cinquefoiled lights under a square head (possibly early 16th century) to the right, and a square-headed priests' door between them. A late 19th-century north vestry and an east window with two ogee trefoil-headed lights under a 2-centred head, inscribed with leaded letters, "RL HE/ IH [IT] RE 1637”, complete the composition.

Inside, the tower arch is 2-centred, of two orders, continuously moulded with jambs. The arch to the north transept is a late 19th-century Tudor arch. The nave roof is early 15th century, with three bays, trusses featuring a lower collar with solid angle braces and an upper collar, and two tiers of purlins, some with straight wind braces. The chancel has a single bay and a brattished wall plate over a moulded stone string. Fittings include a 17th-century bobbin-turned altar rail with a contemporary communion table, a late 19th-century plain circular font in a 12th-century style, and two 15th-century wooden benches in the porch. Stained glass in the north window of the north chapel includes an 18th-century heraldic panel above two 15th-century fragments, and two pieces of late 16th-century Flemish glass are located in the chancel's east window.