Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period and has undergone later modifications. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with slate and plaintile roofs. The church features a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry to the south.

The 15th-century west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has flush-work panelling on the plinth and buttresses. A canted stair turret is located to the south, and the tower includes a traceried three-light Perpendicular west window, two sound holes with diagonal traceried motifs, and two-light ovolo-moulded traceried bell-openings, which are likely post-medieval. The tower is crowned with a crow-stepped parapet that displays two surviving Evangelist symbols at the corners. The nave has six three-light Perpendicular windows, with the central pair featuring double-cusped soufflets, and there are two moulded doorways leading into the nave.

The chancel has been heavily restored and includes three two-light cusped Y-traceried windows along with a three-light east window in a Geometric style. The unusually large vestry features two two-light cusped square-headed windows in the gable end. The porch has dying mouldings on the entrance arch and two-light cusped Y-traceried side windows.

Inside, the tower arch has a continuous double-ogee moulded outer order, while the chancel arch features a continuous wave-moulded outer order, both with semicircular responds. There is a cusped piscina in the chancel, and a late-medieval seven-bay chancel screen adorned with tracery, crocketting, and mainly modern paint. The church also houses a 13th-century font with a bulbous circular bowl, surrounded by shafts with disproportionately large stiff leaf capitals, and larger corner shafts with bell capitals that are supported by octagonal shafts surrounding an octagonal stem. The tall font cover is designed in the form of a crocketted spire.