Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a chancel dating to the 14th century, incorporating fragments of 11th and 12th century fabric in the west end of the south wall. The nave and west tower are also 14th century, the tower possibly late 14th century. The church is constructed of fieldstone, clunch (rendered and repaired), and limestone dressings, with tiled roofs. The plan includes a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel.

The three-stage west tower is embattled with gargoyles to the cornice; it features a newel staircase in the southwest angle and original diagonal three-stage buttressing. The fenestration and bell stage openings were restored in Ketton stone. The nave has four restored windows, each of three trefoil lights within two-centred ashlar surrounds with flowing tracery. The outer arch east of the south porch is considerably restored, while the inner arch has two continuous hollow moulded orders forming a two-centred arch. The chancel windows are similarly restored, and the east window is late 14th century with three cinquefoil lights in a four-centred arch with hollow moulding and vertical tracery to the head. The north side of the chancel has similar, less weathered fenestration.

Internally, the roof is of 19th-century construction, divided into five bays. The west tower arch consists of two hollow moulded orders forming a two-centred arch. The church is notable for 14th-century wall paintings in the nave and a five-bay, two-stage screen. The upper stage of the screen is open with subcusped tracery to enriched ogee arches within square heads, featuring vertical tracery to the spandrels. The lower panels are partly restored but retain traces of original painting. A hexagonal pulpit from 1635 has a 19th-20th century stem and original jewel work to the panels and drops to the tester. The limestone font is tapered, octagonal in bowl and stem, and carved, dating to the 13th-14th centuries. A brass memorial is located in the chancel, commemorating John Martin and his wife (1593). R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon. (1) Plate 53.