Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church built in 1875 by R.C. Sutton, following a bequest from E.C. Walker. It is constructed of knapped flint with Bath stone dressings and has a slate roof. The church features a four-bay nave, a one-bay chancel, short transepts, and a south porch, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The west end has two pointed arched windows with geometrical tracery, along with upper round windows that contain inner quatrefoils and outer trefoils and quatrefoils. The exterior includes central and angle buttresses, a stone plinth, string courses, and hood moulds with stiff leaf terminals, topped with a coped gable parapet and a bellcote.

On the north elevation of the nave, there are three two-light pointed arched windows with geometrical tracery, and stone bands at the sill, impost, and cornice. The south elevation is similar, featuring a porch in the west bay with a cusped pointed entrance arch, a moulded archivolt, and shafts in the jambs, along with buttresses and a coped gable parapet with a cross at the apex. The transepts have large three-light windows, angle buttresses, and coped gable parapets with apex crosses, as well as lancets in the west returns.

The chancel has a lower ridge and a coped parapet at the east end with an apex cross. It features a three-light east end window, angle buttresses, a blocked window on the south return, and three lancets on the north return. A vestry is located to the northeast of the transept, which is low and gabled, with an entrance to the east and a round window above, along with a lancet on the north side. An organ bay is situated to the southeast with a gable to the east and two blocked lancets.

Inside, the church has moulded and pointed chancel and transept arches on engaged column responds with foliate capitals, and ornamented spandrels on the transept arches. Engaged colonnettes flank the east window. The nave roof features a pseudo single hammer beam with a collar truss, quatrefoil and trefoil openings, and arched braces, while the chancel and transept roofs are ceiled.

There is a Gothic round pulpit in the northeast corner of the nave, with engaged shafts and projecting heads of apostles, and a similar Gothic font at the west end with a quatrefoil base and four marble shafts supporting a circular bowl. A chancel screen has been moved to the south transept and features wrought ironwork. The church contains late 19th and early 20th-century glass, while a late 20th-century hall extending to the southeast is not of special interest.