Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries but has earlier origins and was restored in 1877. It features an aisless nave and chancel, a west tower, and a south porch. The roof is tiled, with a small dormer. The chancel has brick walling in Flemish bond with blue headers, a plinth, and fillets at the eaves and verge. It includes a 19th-century, three-light wooden 'Perpendicular' east window and a small Victorian lancet window on the north side. The nave is roughcast, with coupled round-arched windows, a plain arched doorway (now filled) on the north, and a larger arched doorway leading into the porch. The tower has a recent pyramid roof covered in tiles, red brick walling in English bond, diagonal stepped buttresses, rectangular windows, a plinth, and a stone plaque inscribed with the date 1685. The porch features a Tudor wooden doorframe and two old eaves beams inside, but it is now enclosed with brickwork (roughcast on the outside) and has four steps leading down to the church floor level. Inside, there is a 17th-century Communion rail, a panelled pulpit dated 1650 with a panelled tester, oak pews from the 17th century, and a 17th-century west gallery made of heavy timber with a front rail of balusters (cut short). The octagonal font is Victorian, and there is a small brass wall plaque commemorating a gift by Thomas Sympson in 1674. The thick nave walls and the restored lancet window on the north side indicate that the structure has medieval origins, although it was a chapelry of Overton until the 19th century.