Church Of Saint Peter And Saint Paul

The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a parish church dating to the mid-13th century, with additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1858 and again in 1885-8. The church is constructed of carstone, rubble, and fieldstone with clunch and limestone dressings, and has slate and tiled roofs.

The west tower, built in the 14th and 15th centuries, stands four stages with diagonal buttressing and cusping to the gables of the two upper stages. It has an embattled parapet with grotesque gargoyles at the corners and a newel staircase in the southwest corner. The west doorway features a two-centred arch in a square head, with restored dagger tracery to the spandrels and a return label. A three-light window above the doorway has cinquefoil lights in a two-centred arch with vertical tracery. The bell stage has two openings of two cinquefoil lights within two-centred hollow-moulded arches, each with a label.

The nave, originally 13th century, has a clerestory added in the 14th and 15th centuries. Four windows are located on each side, with repaired lintels and tiled reveals. The roof, rebuilt probably in the 19th century, retains the gable end at the east. The south aisle has a 13th-century lancet window in the west end and two restored 14th-15th century windows in the south wall. A clunch doorway in the south wall, likely from the 13th century, has a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders. The chancel features two south-facing windows: one 13th-century, restored, with two uncusped lights surrounded by quatrefoils, and another 14th-15th century, with two cinquefoil lights and vertical tracery. The east window was restored circa 1885 and comprises three graduated lancets.

The north doorway, dating from the 14th-15th centuries, has a four-centred arch within a square head with continuous moulding and dagger tracery.

Inside, a 15th-century archway leads to the west tower. This arch is two-centred, with two orders on the east and west faces, and ogee and roll mouldings on the responds, which also have similar mouldings to the capitals and bases. The 13th-century nave arcade, restored, consists of four bays with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. A 15th-century screen, much restored, has six bays and two stages; the side bays have ogee heads and double cusping, with crocketting to the upper stage, and the lower stage features a central mullion and tracery in the head. A piscina sits in the south wall of the chancel, featuring two bays with trefoil cusping to two-centred arches on columns, and a foiled drain. A chest, dating back to the 16th century and made of oak, retains original iron furniture. The font, from the 13th century, is limestone and octagonal, with a clunch stem.