Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a west tower dating from around 1300, a nave and chancel from the 14th century, and a north transept added in 1857. The church was restored, reseated, and re-roofed in 1866. Local tradition suggests the church was built in 1462, and a bequest in the will of Richard Medewe, proved in 1463, references funds for the "construction of the church," implying partial reconstruction or alteration occurred around that date.

The church is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and some brick, covered by slate roofs. The west tower is a three-stage square tower without buttresses, featuring a cinquefoiled western lancet window, a blocked slit light to the ringing chamber, and two belfry windows with cusped Y tracery and pierced Somerset infill. A plain parapet sits atop the tower, with corner obelisks. Unique additions to the tower's north and south sides are small, enclosed rooms, likely dating from the 1463 work, and supported by diagonal flushwork buttresses. They have no windows and are covered with plain tile roofs at the same height as the nave. A gabled south porch features stepped diagonal buttresses and a moulded arched opening; lancet side lights are present, with the eastern one having a square hood. The south door is of plank and muntin construction. One two-light cusped proto-Perpendicular window is located on the south nave elevation. Stepped buttresses are present at the east end of the nave; the north side's buttresses have been largely removed to accommodate the gabled transept. The transept has diagonal buttresses, a two-light north window, and a two-light east window. A gabled 19th-century vestry, built over the north door and abutting the transept, prevents a west window.

The south chancel windows include two 14th-century two-light windows with cusped four-petal vesicas. The easternmost window is reduced due to an early 17th-century brick priests' doorway, featuring a moulded four-centred arch within a moulded square surround. A single lancet window lights the north chancel. Diagonal flushwork buttresses flank a three-light reticulated east window of the chancel.

Inside, a wave-moulded low arch defines the tower opening. The side rooms have traceried squints, with the north one now blocked. An octagonal font bowl displays fleurons and seaweed foliage carving on its underside, and sits on a 20th-century octagonal plinth. The nave and chancel roofs date to 1866 and feature arched braces dropping from principals to head corbels, moulded wall plates, a ridge piece, and one tier of purlins. A false hammerbeam roof is present in the north transept. Surviving features include candle holders and brass reflecting plates. Partially revealed rood stairs are located on the south side. A hollow-chamfered chancel arch rises to fluted capitals, supported by circular responds. Early 18th-century altar rails have tapering square section reeded balusters.