Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a medieval parish church. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has pantile and slate roofs. The church comprises a 12th-century west tower, a nave dating to the 14th century, an 1887 north aisle, a 14th-century chancel, and a 19th-century south porch.

The embattled west tower has three stages and diagonal buttresses to the west, featuring flushwork battlement with pinnacles at the angles. It has a restored west window of two cusped lights with a perpendicular member rising from the head of each light, and brick voussoirs. Small single cusped lights with hood moulds are present in the ringing chamber. The bell openings match the design of the west window.

The three-bay nave has added buttresses to the south, and two restored 3-light ogee windows under square hood moulds. The north aisle, dating to 1887, has two similar windows and a 19th-century doorway in the west wall. The unbuttressed chancel has two bays, with two restored 2-light Decorated windows to the south, similar windows to the north, and a 19th-century Decorated east window. The south porch is unbuttressed, and contains 19th-century 2-light windows to the east and west. The archway to the porch is noteworthy for its polygonal shafts, capitals and bases with a hollow chamfer to the arch, a continuous outer order, and a hood mould, with a blocked niche above it.

The elaborately carved 12th-century nave doorway features three orders with chevron moulded and plain shafts. The intermediate angles have concave flowers, pyramidal and cable mouldings. The arch itself displays chevron, paired scroll and billet mouldings. The church interior includes a stoup beside the south door, a nave arcade from 1887, and a vestry in the westernmost bay, which contains medieval paintings including a depiction of St. Christopher. An opening in the south wall of the tower, with brick reveals and arch, may have been a wafer oven. The tower arch has imposts. The nave roof has an embattled wall plate and scissor-braces. A 15th-century rood screen with cavetto moulding to the middle rail and remains of crenellation to the top rail remains. The chancel’s piscina has been restored, and it contains an arch-braced roof with roll-moulded wall plate, purlins and braces. A 19th-century font is present, alongside the remains of a 12th-century font bowl and supporting shafts with some capitals, which are located in the tower. The Royal arms of George II, dated 1743, are displayed.