Church Of St Peter And Holy Cross

The Church of St Peter and Holy Cross is a parish church that replaced a double-aisled medieval building, which may have been associated with the nearby Benedictine Nunnery. It was constructed between 1856 and 1858 by architect Woodyer. The church features a nave and aisles with four bays, a chancel, a north vestry, a western bell turret, and a south porch. It has a tiled roof that extends above the aisles without a clerestory. The walls are made of flint with stone dressings, and there are buttresses, geometrical windows, cill banding on the chancel, and a plinth. Inside, the north aisle at the west end contains built-in sculptured fragments, an effigy of a nun on a modern base, an altar tomb from 1551 dedicated to Sir Owen West with early Renaissance details, and a medieval corbel made from part of a Saxon cross featuring interlaced carving.