Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The building features rubble walls composed of a mixture of cobbles and ironstone, along with some remnants of 12th-century masonry. The dressings are primarily made of ashlar, mostly clunch, and the roofs are covered with slate. The church consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel includes a 19th-century, three-light pointed-arched east window. On the north elevation, there is a blocked 12th-century round-arched light, a blocked four-centred arched doorway, and the head of a small pointed light that appears to have been reset. A 14th-century pointed lowside window with a transom is located in the northwest. The south elevation features a similar lowside window in the southwest, a two-light square-headed window to the east, and a 19th-century pointed-arched doorway in between. The chancel arch is from the 14th century.

The nave has 12th-century origins and contains three-bay arcades on octagonal columns on both sides; the south arcade is from the earlier 13th century, while the north arcade is from the later 13th century. The west respond of the south arcade has plain leaf ornament. The early 15th-century clerestory has three windows on each side, all with two lights and four-centred arched heads.

The north aisle, dating from the late 13th century, has a two-light window on the east elevation and two square-headed windows on the north elevation, one with three lights and the other with two lights, both featuring reticulated tracery. There is also a pointed-arched doorway. The south aisle, from the earlier 13th century, has similar window styles to the north aisle. The south doorway retains 13th-century jambs and carved capitals, although the shafts have been removed. The south porch, built in the 19th century, is made of dressed limestone and features a four-centred archway with single lights on the side elevations.

The west tower, constructed in the 15th century, has three stages, an octagonal stair turret at the southwest angle, and embattled parapets. It includes two-light pointed-arched windows at both the bell stage and the ground stage.

Inside, the chancel roof retains only two original tie beams, while the nave features a 15th-century roof with moulded timbers. The 15th-century font in the south aisle has an octagonal bowl and stem adorned with carved quatrefoil panels. The nave floor contains a slab with indents for a figure under a crocketed canopy and for five shields. The east window of the north aisle holds a few fragments of medieval glass, and the church has 19th-century pewing.