Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church largely dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, with some 19th-century rebuilding. It is constructed of flint with limestone dressings, featuring knapped and galleted flintwork on the tower. The roofs are slate, with a continuous covering over the nave and chancel.

A west tower, built in the 15th century (funded by bequests between 1485 and 1487), includes diagonal western buttresses with flushwork panels. It has a 3-light Perpendicular window facing west, and 2-light bell openings. Small cusped openings are present on the south and west sides. The tower top features a parapet of stepped battlements with crocketted pinnacles. A polygonal stair turret is situated on the south side. The upper section of the tower arch and a drip mould, indicating an earlier, steeper roof line, are visible on the east face of the tower. A south door, originally with a moulded brick arch and drip, is now blocked.

The nave windows are predominantly 2 and 3-light Perpendicular style, and have been restored. The chancel has plain lancet windows and a 2-light 'Y' tracery window at the southeast corner; evidence suggests a blocked lancet formerly existed in the center of the south wall. A 13th-century priest's doorway, with a restored arch, is visible. The east window is a 3-light design with Perpendicular tracery.

The north porch is constructed of flint with brick dressings and was extensively restored in the 19th century, featuring a brick arch and niche above with a double hollow chamfer. A tall, narrow tower arch, now cut through by a later roof – said to date from 1817 – is present. The chancel roof has also been replaced, incorporating king struts on collars and a shallow pitch. The ceiling over the nave is plastered. A banner stave locker is situated alongside the north door. A rood loft stair is located at the northeast corner.

A good square-headed screen, likely from the early 15th century, divides the space with panel tracery above crocketted arches; it consists of four bays on each side of the central arched opening. Much original colour remains, with the lower panels alternately painted red and green and decorated with floral motifs. There is evidence that the screen originally had westward projections to accommodate nave altars. Within the chancel, a stepped dropped sill sedilia and a double piscina with trefoiled heads, including a small dragon carved into one of its stiff-leaf stops, are present. A shallow pointed arch is found low in the south wall of the nave.

Notable wall monuments commemorate Catharine Nelson (+1789), Matthew Barnes (+1782), Anne Barnes (+1786), Edward Smith (+1812), Mary Redhead (+1811), and William Springall (+1752), along with some good floor slabs. The octagonal font, dating to the 15th century, has a carved bowl decorated with alternating roses and shields, corbel heads supporting the bowl, and four seated lions against the stem. The font is covered by a crocketted octagonal conical cover.