Church Of St. Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church dating to the 12th and 14th centuries. It is constructed primarily of flint, with some rendering, and has lead roofs to the nave and a pantiled chancel roof. The church comprises a west tower, nave, south aisle, and chancel.

The plain, round west tower, largely from the 12th century, features 2-light bell openings on central scalloped shafts. A single 2-light window sits in the lower west stage, with a lancet window to the north and south of the ringing chamber. A gabled north porch was added in 1854, featuring a hood mould with carved head stops. The nave has two buttresses with 2-light windows above a string course. These windows feature Y tracery with cusped lights and supporting a cusped foil, set beneath a gabled roof with a low parapet. The chancel has two 3-light windows with intersecting tracery, daggers, and pointed trefoils within a pointed frame. An engaged column with capitals and bases supports the hood mould, terminating in leaf stops, below the windows, with a string course running below. There are two buttresses at the east end, framing a large 4-light cusped intersecting window, which was added in 1855, containing a sexfoiled circle. The south chancel wall mirrors the north. The south aisle is buttressed.

The east window of the south aisle, dating from around 1340, is of 3 lights with intersecting tracery and a sexfoiled circle above pointed quatrefoils. It has a hood mould with head stops. Two 2-light south windows have cusped lights supporting quatrefoils. A gabled south porch was built by E.B. Lamb in 1856. Three 2-light, square-headed clerestory windows feature cusped ogee lights.

Inside, the south arcade consists of four bays with octagonal piers and moulded bases and capitals beneath double waved arches. A low tower arch has a splayed lancet. The chancel arch is wave moulded on octagonal responds with Perpendicular bases. The remains of a rood stair are visible. The nave roof has wall posts on corbels which become arched braces to the principals, incorporating moulded butt purlins, a ridge piece, and boxed-in ashlaring with some 19th-century timbers. The south aisle roof is similar. The chancel roof is a false hammerbeam design, with five bays, a single butt purlin, a heavy wall plate, and boxed-in ashlaring. A very fine mid-14th-century screen features a cusped and sub-cusped central ogee opening with tracery roundels in the spandrels, and 2-light panels between stiles with a tracery frieze. Single bays extend towards the chancel arch, with a panelled lower half and a battlemented top rail. An Early 17th-century double-decker pulpit is panelled with carving. An Early 17th-century box pew is located in the aisle, and a late 17th-century balustraded iron twist altar rail is in place. A stepped sedilia dating from around 1300 features moulded arches on columns with capitals and bases. A double piscina mirrors the design of the chancel window, under an arched head. A 15th-century hexagonal font sits on a tall base and includes a cover that was extensively restored in 1843.