Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating back to the 15th century, substantially rebuilt in 1795. It is constructed of knapped flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, and chancel.

The three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses with flushwork panelling. A flushwork trefoiled arcade decorates the plinth. The original west doorway has been blocked and replaced with a three-light intersecting window of 1795. Above this is a tall, late 15th century transomed, three-light, panel traceried window. The ringing chamber has two-light Perpendicular windows with cusped ogee tracery, below a crenellated flushwork parapet. A polygonal stair turret is located at the north-east corner. The stepped aisle buttresses and the C15 gabled south porch retain a blocked side window and a wave-moulded outer doorway with an arch on semi-circular responds. A wave-moulded inner doorway sits below a hood mould on labels. A dentiled eaves cornice is present on the porch and nave, both dating to 1795. All other windows are from 1795, incorporating intersecting tracery: four to the south aisle, and one to the north aisle, all of three lights. The single-bay chancel, also of 1795, has a three-light east window. Brick repairs are visible on the north aisle buttresses.

The interior features a five-bay arcade of elongated octagonal piers, constructed in 1795. These piers stand on altered Perpendicular bases. The arcades were moved north and south, expanding the width of the nave and reducing the width of the aisles. The arches are four-centred and wave-moulded. The roof is from 1795, featuring tie beams on straight braces, King posts with struts to principals, and one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins. A tall C15 tower arch has semi-circular responds and continuous wave mouldings. A similar chancel arch is present, with the wave mouldings embellished with additional hollows.

A C15 octagonal font has a traceried stem and eight animal and grotesque heads supporting a plain, chamfered bowl. The bowl's height has been reduced and is now topped with an octagonal C13 Purbeck marble bowl, displaying two incised pointed arches on each facet. A pier of the north chancel arch retains a stilted doorway leading to the rood stairs. A good late C13 angle piscina is found in the chancel, featuring a trefoiled arch supporting three encircled quatrefoils.