Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with medieval origins and later additions. It is constructed primarily of flint with ashlar and brick dressings, and has pantile roofs. The church comprises a western tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch and large north chapel, and a chancel.

The unbuttressed west tower, likely dating from around 1300, features a rounded stair turret to the south and two moulded stringcourses. A two-light cusped Y-traceried window is set beneath a four-centred arch on the west face, with galletted flintwork on the ground floor stage. The middle stage contains two small quatrefoil windows and a rectangular loop. The two-light bell openings feature cusping and ogee heads to the south, simpler hood moulding to the west, and plain Y-tracery to the north and east.

The nave, possibly dating from the 11th or early 12th century, has flint quoins and coursed walling. It contains a blocked two-light window and a restored two-light panel-traceried window to the south, a blocked plain-chamfered doorway to the north, and a double ogee moulded south doorway. A sanctus bellcote sits on the east gable. A late Medieval porch is located to the south.

The north chapel dates from the late 13th century and has single two-light Y-traceried windows to the east and west, and a three-light Y-traceried window in the north gable end. The chancel incorporates a modern panel-traceried three-light east window and a 15th-century two-light window with a priest's doorway to the south.

Inside, a two-bay 13th-century arcade leads to the north chapel, featuring a quatrefoil central pier and plain chamfered arches of two orders. The tower arch is double-ogee and wave-moulded, springing from corbels. The chancel arch is plain-chamfered with semicircular responds. The church boasts a late Medieval scissor brace roof, comprised of 16 trusses with single sets of intermediate common rafters, continuous purlins, and a ridge piece. Ashlaring is supported on double-ogee moulded plates. A post-Medieval two-bay clasped purlin chancel roof includes wind bracing; arch braced tie beams have been removed. An angle piscina with a small octagonal shaft and cusped arches is visible, along with a heavily restored late-Medieval chancel screen. A piscina is also present in the north chapel, featuring an ogee head. A 13th-century Purbeck marble octagonal font with pairs of plain, shallow, pointed arches to each face is supported on modern Purbeck marble shafts.