Church Of Saint Peter

The Church of Saint Peter is a parish church with origins dating back to the early 13th century, with elements from the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, coursed ironstone rubble, and cobblestones, featuring ashlar dressings and clay tile roofs. The church consists of a chancel, nave, south and north aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel, dating from the 13th century, has north and south walls each featuring two 13th-century lancet windows. It also includes a 14th-century pointed east window with three lights and net tracery, a 14th-century low-side window to the northwest, and a 19th-century vestry attached to the southwest. The chancel arch is from the 14th century.

The nave has origins in the 12th century but was reworked in the 13th and 14th centuries, with a clerestory added in the 15th century. It features a four-bay north arcade with arches of varying spans, where the two eastern arches are from the 13th century and the two western arches are from the 14th century. The south arcade also has four bays from the 13th century, with an additional half-bay from the 14th century to the west. The clerestory has five windows on each side, each with two lights under flat heads.

The south aisle, dating from the 13th century and extended to the west in the 14th century, has two three-light, four-centred 15th-century windows in the eastern part and a 19th-century west window. Both the nave and south aisle feature embattled parapets. The north aisle has an eastern half from the 13th century and a western part from the 14th century, with 15th-century windows similar to those in the south aisle, including three on the north wall and one to the east. There is also a 14th-century pointed-arched two-light window to the east and a 14th-century pointed-arched two-light window to the west, along with a 15th-century pointed-arched north door.

The south porch, built in the 19th century, is gabled and encloses a 14th-century doorway. The west tower was rebuilt in 1877 but retains a 15th-century east arch. It has three stages, with angle buttresses, a plain parapet, two-light pointed windows in the bell stage, and a three-light pointed window in the lower stage.

Inside, the nave and aisles retain most of their 15th-century roofs, featuring carved corbels depicting angels with shields. The 14th-century octagonal font, which is somewhat worn, has carved panels illustrating scenes of the Fall of Man and the Atonement. The south aisle contains an early 17th-century squire's pew with a panelled dado and slender Ionic columns supporting round-headed arches, topped by a boldly carved openwork frieze of dolphins. In the west bay of the north aisle, there is a 14th-century tomb recess, adjacent to which is a marble wall monument to Anne Edwards (died 1733) and her son (died 1760). This monument features a grey obelisk with two white oval portrait medallions, flanked by urns.