Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building located in Freston, dating from the 13th to 14th centuries, with extensive restoration carried out in 1875. The church features 19th-century additions, including a vestry and porch. It is constructed of flint rubble with some septaria in the tower and has ashlar dressings. The east end is rendered, while the porch is made of knapped flint and ashlar with a timber superstructure, topped with a plain tile roof.

The church comprises a west tower, a continuous nave and chancel, a south porch, and a polygonal organ chamber to the south, along with a similar vestry to the north. The three-stage tower has a two-light west window and belfry openings, supported by diagonal off-set flushwork buttresses, and features an embattled top stage. The south porch contains a continuously-moulded pointed door with stiff-leaf stops. The nave has two-light windows with 19th-century tracery and a blocked north door that is continuously-moulded with foliate stops. The organ chamber and vestry have single-light windows and pointed doors, both topped with conical roofs. The chancel includes a heavily restored two-light window to the south, retaining head stops to the hoodmould, and a three-light east window with 19th-century intersecting tracery and head stops to the hoodmould.

Inside, there is a tall tower arch with a sanctus bell window above, along with 19th-century timber roof and fittings. The chancel features an ogee-arched cusped piscina, and there is a 16th-century octagonal font with alternating panels of lions and demi-angels with shields, set on a renewed base. A black ledger in the tower displays the achievement of arms, inscribed to John Wright, 'patron of the church', who died on 11 February 1723. The north side of the nave features stained glass from 1922 by William Morris and Co.