Parish Church Of St Peter

The parish church of St Peter dates back to possibly the 11th century, with a nave wall retaining traces of the original roofline. The chancel and south aisle were constructed in the early 13th century, and late 13th-century arcades were added to the nave and north aisle. The late 15th century saw the addition of a clerestory and a hammer-beam roof. The south aisle wall, south porch, north vestry, chancel, and chancel arch were rebuilt in 1878, along with the insertion of a new east window. The church is built of flint with Barnack limestone dressings, and Ketton limestone from the 19th century, all covered by slate roofs.

The three-stage flint tower has a plain coped parapet and a weathervane. It features small loop windows and paired-light belfry windows with round heads and shafted mullions with cushion capitals. The nave and aisle walls have coped parapets. The clerestory has three two-light, cinquefoiled windows set in four-centred arches. The buttressed aisle wall includes two restored lancet windows; the south porch has corner buttresses and a rebuilt 13th-century outer arch with 15th-century glass re-set in the side windows. The chancel has a 19th-century two-light transomed window and a lancet window.

Inside, the nave has three bays with an arcade of octagonal piers, moulded capitals and bases, and wide two-centred arches of two chamfered orders set into the 11th-century nave wall, replacing earlier arcades. A roundel with a carved cross sits above the south arcade. The hammer-beam nave roof boasts a richly carved and moulded cornice, moulded principals and purlins, and carved figures of bishops and priests to the soffits of the hammer beams. The tower doorway is from the 15th century. The chancel arch and screen are 19th-century. Recesses designed during a 19th-century alteration are flanked by niches with cinquefoiled arched heads. A double piscine with foiled drains and a trefoil in a two-centred arch is also present. A 14th-century Easter sepulchre is located in the north wall, containing a quatrefoil panelled table tomb and an ogee crocketed canopy. A restored parclose screen separates the memorial chapel in the north aisle. The chancel screen is 13th century, and the font features an octagonal bowl resting on a single octagonal shaft with a moulded cap and base. 19th-century stained glass is found in all windows. Monuments include an indented marble slab with a cross and figure; three black marble tablets dedicated to George Warner (1735), Joseph Sparrow (1721), and Thomas Luck (1752); a wall memorial in the south aisle to Isaac Thornton (1669), with flanking pilasters, a broken pediment, and a black marble floor tablet. The church is one of only two in Cambridgeshire featuring a round Norman tower.