Church Of Ss Peter And Paul

The Church of St Peter and Paul is a parish church dating to the late 13th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint with ashlar quoins and has an ashfelt roof. The church comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, and chancel.

The early 15th-century tower has four stages and diagonal buttresses. A flushwork base is shared with the north porch and nave. The west door features carved spandrels and a frieze, above which is a four-light window dating to the mid-15th century. The ringing chamber has square ventilation panels containing punched, cusped quatrefoils enclosing armorial shields. Three-light Perpendicular belfry windows are set under a battlemented parapet with flushwork. The south porch has a four-centred arch of continuous bowtell mouldings. The inner door is ogeed with a finial and flat panelled ceiling. The buttressed aisles feature three-light Perpendicular windows, likely from the early 15th century, with gargoyle headstops to the hoodmoulds. A 19th-century coped parapet sits above an undercut string course on the south side only.

The chancel, dating to the late 13th century, has three bays with two flat buttresses to the north and south, and diagonal buttresses at the east end. Three 15th-century three-light windows are inserted under hood moulds. A single, chamfered priest's door is present. A large, approximately 1300 window is set within the chancel, featuring cusped intersecting lights supporting a quatrefoiled circle, two trefoiled circles, and two mouchettes. Two north chancel windows mirror the south side. A rood stair turret is also visible. A two-storey north porch is now blocked off and serves as a vestry. The interior of the porch has a lower roof with a tierceron star vault with bosses.

Inside, the church has five bays. Tall, octagonal bases support wave-moulded piers with capitals and shafts at cardinal points. The arches are triple-chamfered with double wave mouldings; the tower arch has wave, hollow, and roll mouldings on similar bases. A balustraded gallery is present, and a string course runs below the clerestory. The church features a 15th-century false hammerbeam roof with an elaborately decorated wall plate, wall posts dropping to projecting timber corbels formed as angels and arched braces to the ridge piece. Two principals are present per bay, and single purlins have large floral bosses at their intersections. Aisle roofs are flat arched, with moulded rafters and purlins and similar bosses. Openwork spandrels are incorporated into the braces. Three tiers of panelled niches flank the chancel arch. An 18th-century coved plaster ceiling is located in the chancel. A double piscina has pointed undercut arches. A 15th-century oak screen with tracery divides the space, alongside a 14th-century octagonal font with tracery carving.