Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter in Corpusty is a derelict parish church that dates back to the medieval period and was restored in 1891. It is constructed from flint with stone dressings and features a pantile roof. The building includes a tower, a continuous nave, a chancel, and a south porch. The west tower has three stages, an embattled parapet, and diagonal buttresses. It features a three-light Perpendicular west window with panel tracery that has been restored, although the tracery is incomplete at the bell openings. The north opening has two cusp-headed lights beneath a quatrefoil, and there are hood moulds made of rendered brick.

The south porch has a corrugated tile roof, with the south face restored using knapped flints. It features a moulded arch on corbels and a blocked niche above, along with a 13th-century marble coffin lid at the threshold. Each side of the porch has openings with two cusp-headed lights under square hood moulds, and there are rendered brick side benches. The south porch also has a 15th-century open rafter roof with moulded beams, which was restored in the 19th century. The south doorway has continuous moulding under a hood mould.

On the south side, there are four openings—two leading to the nave and two to the chancel—while the north side has three openings, each with two cusped lights under curvilinear tracery, all of which are unglazed. The east window is Perpendicular with four lights and panel tracery in rendered brick. The north doorway has a strap hinge that terminates in two outward curves, and there is a blocked archway in the north wall with a brick soffit.

Inside, the church features a king post nave roof and an open rafter construction for the chancel roof with ashlar plates. There is a 15th-century blocked archway in the north wall with a chamfered arch and polygonal sideshafts made of rendered brick. An archway in the south wall leads to a roof stair and has figure stops to the hood mould. There is a cusp-headed piscina and a tall 15th-century arch to the tower with polygonal shafts. The font is in the 15th-century style, octagonal on an octagonal stem with quatrefoils on the faces. The 17th-century communion rails, featuring large bobbin-turned balusters, are now located under the tower. Many fittings have been removed. The church is currently cared for by the Friends of Friendless Churches.