Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating from 1883-4, built by J.D. Sedding. It incorporates substantial fabric and fittings from a previous church located approximately 900 metres to the northwest. The church is constructed of flint and iron conglomerate with stone dressings, topped with a slate roof and lead roofing to the aisles and porch.

The church comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof, with north and south aisles, a north porch, a north-east tower, and a south-east vestry. The east wall is flint with brick courses, and features a seven-light window installed in 1884. Chequerwork patterns of flint and stone appear in the clerestory and aisle walls. The 1884 clerestory has windows of two lights with panel tracery; five on the south side and four on the north. The west window, dating from the 14th century, is of four lights with reticulated tracery beneath a hood mould; it originally served as the east window of the earlier church. The aisle windows incorporate elements from the previous church, including a three-light Perpendicular window with ogee-headed lights in the north chapel, two three-light windows with simple panel tracery in the north aisle, and three three-light windows (likely reduced in size) under low segmental arches in the south aisle.

The north porch has a moulded two-centre arch with side shafts, and contains two two-light, cuspheaded windows with hollow chamfered mullions under flat arches with square hood moulds, all taken from the earlier church. A 19th-century doorway provides entry. The north-east tower, constructed in the 20th century, is unbuttressed and features an embattled parapet and uncoursed iron-stained flint. It includes a small north doorway with a medieval hood mould featuring figure stops, and a partially projecting turret to the first stage on the north side. The bell openings are of two lights, and a clock is located on the north side across an opening.

Inside, the nave has three bays framed by original 15th-century arcades from the old church, incorporating octagonal piers to the north and quatrefoil piers to the south, all beneath chamfered arches. The two-bay chancel, completed in 1884, features continuous blank arches to the south and one blank arch to the north, with clerestory windows above. The floor is laid with 17th/18th century square tiles. The font bowl, dating from the 13th century, is of octagonal form, made from Purbeck marble, and has blank arcading and a colonaded stem and steps added in 1884. A 15th-century chancel screen is retained, with painted panel tracery, although the panels have been renewed. Fragments of a screen are located under the tower and in the north chapel. A painted chantry parclose screen from 1526 exists within the south aisle; it lacks tracery, depicts donors, and features a defaced inscription reading "(orate pro anima) Willim : C... Harstong: uxoris : eius : anno : dni : MCCCCC : xxiiiiii". A south aisle piscina, originally from the old church, displays a multicusped Decorated head. A trefoil-headed piscina in the chancel is a former water stoup that stood by the nave door of the older church. Drawings of the earlier church are displayed within the building.