Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church largely dating to the 13th century, with additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1851. The church is constructed of fieldstone, limestone rubble, and limestone dressings, with parapetted roofs covered in plain tiles and slate.

The west tower is of limestone, with embattlement and a central beast gargoyle to the main cornice. It has four stages, with diagonal buttressing. The west doorway has continuous hollow and ogee mouldings to a four-centred arch, and the west window has three cinquefoil lights within a similar arch. The bell stage has trefoil openings divided by mullions and transoms in two-centred arches. Put-log holes are filled with old brick. The nave, dating to the 13th century, has a C14 clerestory with three quatrefoil openings in square surrounds with chamfered edges. The south wall has two restored C15 windows of three cinquefoil lights each in four-centred arches. A medieval, restored porch has a plain tiled gabled roof and a segmental outer arch of two chamfered orders, supported by corbels. The chancel, originally 13th century, was restored in the 15th century. The red brick south wall includes a reset C14 doorway with continuous ogee moulding to a two-centred arch, featuring mask stops and a finial. A window with modern intersecting tracery sits in the east wall. The north wall features a window of two cinquefoil lights with a mullion and transome.

Inside, the two-centred tower arch is of three chamfered orders. The C14 north arcade comprises three bays with two-centred arches on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. The roof has arch braced tie beams carried on jackposts on carved stone corbels, linked by a moulded string below the clerestory. The north aisle is largely C19. The C13 chancel arch is two-centred and of two chamfered orders on half-octagonal columns. A piscina is set into the south wall of the chancel, featuring a trefoil head, two-centred label, and two drains. A C12-C13 font features a round basin in a tapering square bowl, carved with foliage and star ornament, and sits atop a central octagonal column with four subsidiary shafts, raised on a later base. A late medieval limestone altar with cyma and roll moulding, now stands on a C19 wood base.