Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations spanning the 13th, 15th, and 19th centuries. The nave originates from the 12th century, while the eastern part of the nave and aisles were built in the 13th century. A clerestory was added in the 15th century, and the chancel and tower were rebuilt by J. L. Pearson in 1866. The rest of the church was restored in 1875.

The church is constructed of flint with brick and stone dressings, and has an old plain tile roof. The plan includes a chancel with a southwest organ chamber, a clerestoried nave with low aisles, a southwest porch, and a west tower. The 19th-century chancel has three eastern lancet windows, with bands of dressed stone and brick in the flintwork, and buttresses to the corners. Two-light windows with round heads are situated on the sides. The north aisle features an early 14th-century three-light trefoiled window with tracery and a restored 12th-century round-headed doorway. To the north are three 15th-century square-headed three-light windows with cinquefoiled windows. The south aisle contains a similar window at each end, along with restored 14th-century square-headed windows with two or three trefoiled lights. A 19th-century gabled porch, with diagonal buttresses and a late-12th-century roundheaded doorway inside, is located towards the west. A 19th-century lancet sits to the west. The west tower has a plinth and a northeast stair tower to the second stage. The tall west lancet is accompanied by smaller round-headed lancets on the north, west, and south faces of the second stage. The upper stage consists of two louvred bell openings on each face, topped with a saddleback roof.

Inside the chancel, the eastern lancet windows have rear arches of clustered columns supporting two-order arches. A reredos with painted scenes, green marble columns, and a moulded cornice is present. In the southeast corner is a reset 13th-century piscina with a shelf, alongside 19th-century sedilia. An iron altar rail and free-standing brass candelabra are also features. The chancel roof is a pointed barrel vault. A tall chancel arch, with foliage capitals and banded shafts, leads into the nave. A pointed wrought screen, linked to a similar pulpit on a stone base, stands below. The nave incorporates four bay arcades; the northeast bays are 13th-century rebuilt in the 19th century, consisting of two chamfered orders. The west bays are 12th-century, featuring round arches with two square and round orders, chamfered labels, and hollow fluted capitals on round columns. The fifth arcade, remodelled in the 19th century, has pointed arches of two chamfered orders on circular moulded capitals and columns, with square responds originally from the 13th century. A 19th-century king post roof tops the nave. To the south aisle at the east end is a 14th-century two-light trefoiled window with a quatrefoil in the head. An octagonal 15th-century font with traceried panels on the bowl and shaft, complete with an 18th-century cover, stands in the nave. A pointed two-ordered tower arch with chamfered imposts is present, and an 18th-century benefactors' board sits beneath the tower. Memorials include those to Mr. Joshua Brownjohn (1760), John Brownjohn (1795), and John Brownjohn (1802). The church contains 17th and 18th-century bells.