Church Of St Peter In The Wood

The Church of St Peter in the Wood is a parish church rebuilt in 1830 on an old site, funded by a grant from the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches, and designed by architect T.M. Shurmer. It features rendered walls and a slate roof, designed in a plain Gothic style with a cruciform aisleless plan. The western arm, which has thicker walls, is raised as a tower and includes a west porch. The exterior is simple, with pointed coupled windows, including triple windows at the east and west ends, and small high windows just east of the tower. The tower has a parapet and diagonal stepped buttresses that end in square piers topped with slender pyramid finials. The porch features a 4-centred arch, while the side windows of the transepts are domestic in scale, with two lights on the north side and three on the south.

Inside, the church has a long narrow nave and chancel, separated by segmental-pointed arches of the transepts. The ceiling is a flat segmental plaster vault, rising at the west to accommodate a virtually hidden gallery within the tower. The north transept has a pointed plaster ceiling, while the south transept, which is slightly narrower, features a semi-circular plaster vault and serves as a vestry with a doorway beneath the gable window. There are wall monuments dating from 1785, 1798, 1807, and 1835, as well as a Royal Coat of Arms of William IV from 1831. The church contains a Victorian octagonal font, and in the porch, there is what appears to be the original font, consisting of a slender circular stone pillar on a square base topped with a vase, now holding a shallow metal dish.