Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a 14th-century west tower and a 13th-century nave, located on Blaxhall Church Road. It underwent significant restoration in the mid-19th century, particularly in the chancel. The tower is constructed from random flint with flushwork and features stepped diagonal buttresses with stone quoins. The nave and chancel have rubble walls covered in cement render, with the nave topped by a slate roof and the chancel by a plain tiled roof. The tower is embattled and made of red brick, which is part of the repairs to the upper sections.

The four-stage tower has a brick base and brick that replaces the original flushwork. The west doorway features a two-centred pointed moulded arch supported by two engaged columns with moulded capitals, and it includes a hood mould adorned with fleurons, spandrels depicting an angel and a monster head. Above this doorway is a quatrefoil frieze in flushwork, although the doorway itself is currently bricked up.

Both the nave and chancel contain windows dating from around 1300, featuring intersecting tracery, with two on the north and south walls made of brick and two made of stone, one of which is cusped. The south porch is built from random flint and has stone and flushwork buttresses with stone decorations. Inside, the nave boasts an early 16th-century arch-braced hammerbeam roof with traceried spandrels, and there is an ogee arched piscina.

An alabaster monument commemorates Francis Saunders, who died in 1621. The 14th-century font has a traceried base and stem adorned with symbols of the four evangelists, while the octagonal bowl features foils, stars, and shields. In the 20th century, work by the Rope sisters—Ellen, Margaret, and Dorothy—includes a stained glass east window and a figure of St. George, modeled after Michael Rope, who perished in the R101 airship disaster.