Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from the 13th century, with significant fabric from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint with limestone dressings, and has lead roofs over the nave and aisles, and a slate roof over the chancel.

The west tower is square, with angle buttresses at the north-west and south-west corners. It has an embattled parapet with flushwork panels and bases for corner pinnacles. There are two-light Decorated bell openings and a single lancet window in the west wall. The south porch is of 15th-century construction, using knapped flint with flushwork gable and panels in the plinth of the east and west walls. The arched doorway has a square label with angels carved in the spandrels, featuring head stops.

The nave has a fine Perpendicular clerestory of seven two-light windows. A blocked window is visible in the east gable. The chancel walls feature staged buttresses with flushwork panels and shield motifs in the plinths, along with two and three-light Decorated windows, many of which have been restored. A quatrefoil window is set into the north wall of the north aisle, possibly surviving from an earlier clerestory range. The east windows of the aisles have three lights with intersecting and cusped tracery under a four-centred head.

The church has 14th-century north and south arcades, with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers and capitals. The nave features a very fine 15th-century hammer beam roof, with roll-moulded principals, arch-braces concealed by a rib-vaulted timber coving on wall posts, attached shafts rising from carved wall corbels, vertical ashlar panels decorated with quatrefoil panels and a castellated crest, bosses at the intersection of the principals, and much-restored aisle roofs with arch braces to principals and pierced spandrels. The aisles contain re-used bench ends and 17th-century rails with turned balusters and posts with acorn finials. An old iron-bound door is set into a restored opening in the tower.

Remaining fragments of a 15th-century screen consist of two sections of two panels, each depicting eight painted figures of Apostles. The octagonal font has a carved bowl, a stem with four pilaster buttresses and four seated beasts, all set on an octagonal plinth. A significant amount of medieval glass remains in the clerestory windows.