Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an 1888 building by Habershon and Fawkner, built as the third church on the site and funded by public subscription, with a significant contribution of £3000 from the Reverend W.M. Oliver of Bobbingworth. Constructed primarily from red brick, the exterior is faced with dressed flint. The church is in the Early English style, featuring stone dressings to the windows, doors, and quoins. It has a red tiled roof with pierced ridge tiles.

The church consists of a nave, chancel, a north tower with a north door, and a south porch. The three-stage north tower has angled buttresses, stone capping, and lancet windows with trefoil roundels and stopped labels. It features a two-centre arch door surround with shafts, Corinthian capitals, and a foliate label. A broached, shingle spire tops the tower. The nave, aisle, and chancel have matching buttresses. The windows are lancet style, with stone dressings and foliate stops to the labels. The east window comprises three lancet lights with three roundels above and foliate stops. The south porch is timber-framed with a red tile roof and pierced ridge tiles. The west window is a two-stage lancet design with a circular light above and foliate label stops. All windows retain their original diamond-leaded glass in pink, green, and lemon hues, with red and white margins, and the east window contains stained glass.

Internally, the church displays red brick walls, cream-coloured stone window dressings, and a black brick band above each lancet head, a colour scheme that extends to the floor tiles. Vertical wooden panelling is used for the pews. There is an arcade of three two-centred arches, and two-centred chancel and vestry arches, all stone dressed with foliate stops. The nave has a cant roof and the chancel has a boarded cant roof. The altar furniture incorporates black, red, and gold details, as do the bishop’s chair, font cover, and lectern. A stone, octagonal pulpit is designed with a two-light lancet. Brass communion rails feature involucres, bosses, and twisted bases. A William and Mary font and a painting "The Madonna di Foligno" after Raphael are also present. There are monuments to Hodesley Green (died 1699), Fridswid Green (died 1630), and John Greene (died 1595); the Greenes resided at Shelley Hall from 1580 to the early 18th century.