Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church of medieval origin, with a chancel that was restored in 1860. It consists of a nave, chancel, west tower, and north porch. The primary construction material is flint rubble with stone dressings, while the tower is of knapped flint. The roofs are slate-covered.

The 15th-century west tower is square and comprises three stages, featuring diagonal buttresses on the west face. Each buttress of the lowest stage incorporates a blocked trefoil-headed statue niche, and the plinth displays two stone shields. The tower has a two-light west window and two-light belfry openings, with some tracery renewed in brick. A flat red brick parapet, likely from the 18th century, is topped with square pinnacles.

The nave likely has a 12th-century core, evidenced by a blocked 12th-century window on the north wall and a semicircular inner arch to the south doorway. Most of the nave windows are Perpendicular in style, with some renewed in the 19th century. A red brick Early 16th-century doorway is present on the south side. The porch, dating to the 15th century, has undergone considerable restoration but retains its original roof. The nave doorway, believed to be from the 13th century, has a good early plank door.

The 13th-century chancel has several Perpendicular-style windows. On the north wall, there’s evidence of two original lancet window openings, now filled in.

Inside, the nave boasts a fine 15th-century arched-braced roof in eight bays, with a crenellated wallplate. The chancel roof is of similar design and date, also featuring a wallplate adorned with running foliage. A simple pointed-arch piscina is located in the south sanctuary. A good 15th-century font has panels on the bowl depicting mutilated carvings of the Seven Sacraments and the Baptism of Christ; angels are on the underside of the bowl, and the stem is buttressed with cusped panels. The font stands on a two-stepped octagonal plinth, with a raised upper step in the form of a Maltese Cross and panelled risers. There are 20 good 15th-century poppyhead bench-ends in the nave, four with carved armrests, and two detached benches with carved backs. The chancel stalls also feature 15th-century poppyhead ends. On the nave walls, three 16th-century painted biblical texts with ornamental borders are displayed, one painted over an earlier scene believed to depict the Entry into Jerusalem. The James II arms are on the south nave wall, and framed 18th-century Commandments are on the north nave wall. Several 17th- and 18th-century ledger slabs in the chancel floor commemorate members of the Rede family of Weston Hall.