Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, incorporating elements from the 15th and 20th centuries. It is constructed primarily of flint with ashlar dressings, featuring a thatched nave and a chancel with plain tile roofing.

The prominent west tower is round and comprises three stages, with the lower stage blank. A south-facing stair turret is pierced by slit windows and trefoil lights, topped with a conical roof. The tower stages are demarcated by string courses. The ringing chamber has four slit windows, and above it sits a 14th-century octagonal belfry with ashlar quoins and alternating two-light ogeed and blind windows, all under a continuous string course.

A 15th-century gabled north porch is distinguished by diagonal buttresses and a wave-moulded entrance arch with a chamfered inner face resting on circular responds and polygonal capitals. Brick work and labels date to 1624, alongside a central tablet inscribed "IEAMS. RAINOR. GEAVE. THIS. GODLI. WORK. 1624," and several other irregularly placed inscribed tablets. The west parapet of the nave features kneelers with fleuron decoration. Traceried nave windows date to the 15th century, set within four-centred arches. Short transeptual extensions to the east have two-light 14th-century windows with cinquefoil lights supporting a cusped spherical triangle. Diagonal buttresses mark the east end.

The chancel, dating to 1909, has diagonal buttresses and a five-light east window divided by rising mullions with reticulation in the sub-arches. A gabled vestry from 1908 is set into the southwest side of the nave, featuring a three-light Perpendicular window.

Internally, a tall tower arch displays hollow chamfer moulding. The roof is scissor-braced, installed in 1950. The stair turret is lit from the nave by a slit window and two trefoil windows, and accessed through a 14th-century timber door with three strap bands under a shouldered lintel. A fragment of a rood screen, including a one-light ogee divided opening, is present. A rood screen from Tottington church consists of three one-light ogee bays flanking a wider ogee opening, with cusped, crocketed finials and a panelled base featuring cusped and sub-cusped lights, diaper fill spandrels, and angel carvings. The rood loft parapet has twelve panelled lights below a beam supporting figures of Christ, Mary, and John. Twenty late 14th-century benches from Tottington are incorporated, showcasing traceried ends, poppy heads, and animal armrests. An early 17th-century panelled pulpit has a 20th-century stem and plinth, with a front rail dated 1631, decorated with scrollwork. The octagonal font, from the mid-14th century has tracery panels on the bowl and encircled quatrefoils on the stem.