The Church Of St Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church built in 1833, featuring a nave, tower, and porch designed by G. Guthrie. The chancel was added in 1877, and it is possible that the nave was refenestrated during this time. The earlier parts of the church are constructed from purple and blue brick in a header bond, coursed knapped flint, with stone dressings and a slate roof. The chancel is made of grey limestone with Bath stone dressings, a brick plinth, and a tile roof. The layout includes a nave with a south porch, a west tower, and an added chancel.

The chancel is designed in the Decorated style, featuring a three-light cinquefoiled east window with two quatrefoils and a trefoil above. It has diagonal buttresses at the corners and two trefoiled lancets on the sides, along with a central buttress. The nave has a plinth and giant corner pilasters, with a square-headed three-light cinquefoiled window on each side of the center, each with a label. The north side has a central plank panel with a label, while the south porch includes brick corner pilasters, a cornice, and crenellations. The walls are made of flint with pointed brick arches; the sides are blind, but the south side opens with iron gates.

Inside, there are reset slabs commemorating Anna Whithed from 1688 and Mary Whithed from 1657. The west tower features corner brick pilasters, with those on the east cut by the nave at the lower stages. The tower walls are made of flint, with a pointed brick arch door on the west and a square-headed two-light cinquefoiled window on the south. The middle stage has a pointed two-light cinquefoiled window, and the top stage has a string course and pointed bell openings on all faces, topped with a stone cornice and brick crenellations.

The interior of the chancel is all late 19th century, featuring a two-order Early English style chancel arch on foliated corbels and a timber screen. The nave contains monuments on the south side, including one from 1833 to Barth Bouverie and another from 1815 to Charles Wall. On the north wall, there are monuments from the old church, including one from 1725 to Ann Smyth and four early 19th-century monuments to the Thistlethwayte family. At the west end, there is a timber gallery on cast iron columns, which bows forward in the center and displays the Royal coat of arms. Beneath this are benefactor boards from 1725 and 1833 commemorating the rebuilding. In the center of the north side, opposite the door, is a Norman font from the old church, featuring a square bowl on a large central column with smaller corner shafts. The interior of the 1833 nave includes box pews towards the east and open pews towards the west.