Church of St. Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a church constructed between 1869 and 1872 in a Neo-Gothic style by John Johnson. It is built of flint with Bath stone dressings, featuring a plinth, parapetted gables with footstones, kneelers, and coping, a tile roof, and a shingled spire. The building has a rich Decorated style, characterized by hood moulds throughout. The church comprises a west tower and spire, a nave and aisles, a south aisle chapel, a south porch, a north transeptal chapel, a chancel, and a vestry.

The three-stage west tower incorporates angle buttresses, a broach spire topped with a weathervane. The west doorway is heavily moulded with ballflower ornament, and above it is a three-light window. Two-light bell chamber openings are present on all faces, with clocks to the north and south. A gabled timber south porch stands on low walls, and has arched bracing and decorated bargeboards. The south aisle has a south door with a simple two-centered moulded arch, a three-light window to the right, and a traceried lancet to its west end, supported by a diagonal buttress. The south aisle chapel, to the east, contains two bays with two-light windows featuring ogee tracery; the east end has an ogee doorway with a carved tympanum, a hood mould with a carved finial, and a rose window above with cinquefoil tracery. The north aisle has two two-light windows and a lancet with plate tracery to the west, supported by diagonal buttresses. The north transeptal chapel is distinguished by a three-light north window, a quatrefoil in the gable end, and diagonal buttresses. The chancel has a three-light east window and two-light windows to the north and south. The vestry features a rose window to the east and a lancet to the north.

Inside, the nave has three bay arcades to the north and south, with octagonal marble piers, foliated capitals, chamfered arches incorporating hood moulds and stops, and an arch braced roof with foliated corbels. The north transept has a shafted north window with moulded capitals and braces. The chancel arch is chamfered and stands on short columns corbelled out on carved heads. The shafted east window has moulded capitals and bases; the cusped rear arch has a hood mould and carved stops. A two-light opening with a central marble shaft and cusped arches, a quatrefoil in the tympanum, and ballflower ornament leads to the organ chamber to the north. A window serves as a sedilia to the south. Contemporary features include an octagonal stone pulpit and a wooden lectern. A square stone font incorporates quatrefoil panels and rests on four marble columns.