Church Of St Peter And Paul

The Church of St Peter and Paul is a parish church with a 12th-century round tower, while the rest of the structure primarily dates from the 15th century. It is built of flint with limestone dressings, featuring a pantiled roof on the nave and a plain-tiled roof on the chancel and porch. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and a south porch. The 12th-century west tower has a later brick parapet and a lead-covered spirelet topped with a weathercock. The bell openings on the north and south sides have 'Y' tracery, while the east and west openings are blocked. The south porch has an ogee-headed foiled niche above the doorway and was originally two storeys, though the upper floor has been removed. There are blocked upper and lower windows in the east and west walls, and a door to the upper chamber remains in the south wall of the nave. The three south aisle windows feature much renewed Perpendicular tracery, while the north aisle windows are also Perpendicular, with the centre window displaying earlier Decorated motifs. Staged buttresses with flint panels separate the bays, and there is a nave eaves parapet.

Inside, there are stairs leading to the former upper room of the porch at the south-west corner of the nave and stairs to the rood loft at the north-east corner. A blocked north door is present. The pulpit, dated 1635, includes a stand for an hour-glass. The 15th-century octagonal font is adorned with shields in cusped panels, and its cover, dated 1638, features scrolls radiating from a central post. The church has very fine 15th-century carved bench-ends fitted to later benches, and a carved corbel-head, possibly intended for a rood beam, is located at the south-east corner of the nave. There are plain drop-cill sedilia and a piscina with a foiled head in the south wall of the chancel. The roofs and boarded ceilings over the nave and chancel were added in the 19th century.