Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church largely dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with later additions and remodelling. It is constructed of flint and brick with limestone and brick dressings, and has slate roofs covering the nave and chancel. The church features a west tower, a nave, a chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry.

The west tower, built in the early 16th century, is of red brick with limestone and flint, and includes staged diagonal buttresses dressed in brick. It has two-light bell openings with chamfered brick mullions and reveals, a three-light west window with a four-centred arch, shallow intersecting tracery, and chamfered brick reveals (with later red brick mullions). A single opening above the west window has a brick arch and jambs. The tower is topped with a later embattled parapet of flint, dressed with red brick and a moulded brick string course. A polygonal stair turret projects from the south side.

The south porch, added in the 19th century, is constructed of knapped flint, featuring diagonal buttresses and a coped parapet to its south gable, and single-light east and west windows. Most of the south-side windows are 19th-century restorations, being two-light square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. One lancet window, dating around 1200, remains in the south wall of the nave, with a hollow roll-moulded arch and jambs. To the west of this lancet is a blocked semi-circular-headed Norman window. The east window is a 19th-century three-light window. The north side has three 19th-century lancets, with a smaller 14th-century lancet to the west of the vestry. The 19th-century vestry has square-headed two-light windows with drip moulds. A shallow, staged brick buttress is located at the northeast corner of the tower.

Inside, the nave and chancel ceilings are boarded and battened. The tower arch has polygonal responds and a double-chamfered arch. A 14th-century screen has been much restored in the 19th century but retains its original colour and trail design on the principal posts and rails. 15th-century poppy-head benches are present, each with trefoil heads. A trefoil-headed stoup is set into the south wall of the nave, although the head was disfigured by 20th-century replastering. A late 13th-century piscina is located in the south wall of the chancel. In the north wall of the chancel is a slate memorial slab to the five children of Mr. Salletts, and a segmental-headed recess containing a panel of black-letter script from the 16th century. An octagonal font stands on two risers, with an arcaded stem and quatrefoil panels to the bowl.