Church Of St Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church located on Smallburgh Hall Road. It dates from the 14th century and was remodeled in the 15th century. The church underwent restoration in 1885 by H.J. Green, the Diocesan architect, with additional work, including a bell-cote, completed in 1902. The structure is built of flint with ashlar quoins and features slate roofs. It consists of a nave and chancel, while the original tower fell in 1677 and the west end was rebuilt in 1902. This new west end includes a flat buttress that rises through the center to a double-gabled bell-cote, with a cruciform loop below it and a shield featuring the crossed keys of St. Peter above.

The nave has diagonal corner buttresses and stepped side buttresses. A gabled south porch is supported by diagonal buttresses, featuring a wave-moulded outer arch on semi-circular responds and a wave-moulded inner doorway. The porch contains a 15th-century timber door with remnants of cusped arcading. Inside, the nave has a plastered barrel roof with four-centred cusped side lights under square hoods. There are three 3-light Perpendicular windows on both the north and south sides, along with a double hollow chamfered north doorway. A 19th-century stack emerges through the roof above the south porch. The chancel has side buttresses, diagonal to the east, with two 2-light Perpendicular windows and a 4-light east window of modified reticulated design added in the 19th century.

In the south chancel wall, there is a slate monument to Robert Bono from 1753. The interior features a nave roof from 1902 with false hammerbeams supporting braces to collars and king posts, with the timbers painted. There are two tiers of butt purlins. A 14th-century octagonal font is present, supported by columns with polygonal bases and capitals, and a plain bowl. Rood stairs partially survive, accessed through a four-centred arch. The chancel arch is double chamfered with responds featuring polygonal capitals. A dado of the screen remains, displaying four painted panels of saints under tracery heads, with the timberwork largely from the 19th century. Non-figurative painting is found on the rear of the screen panels, and the chancel roof is boarded from the 19th century. An ogee piscina under a square hood features two encircled quatrefoils in the spandrels.