Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries, with a substantial restoration in 1821. It is constructed of stone with rendered mortar, and features a partly timber-framed tower with an upper stage tile-hung. The roof is slate to the nave, plain tiles to the chancel, and wood shingles to the tower.

The church consists of a small west tower, a nave, a south porch, and a chancel. The tower of 1821 is built between two existing stone buttresses at the west end of the nave, with a pyramidal roof and rectangular louvres. A pointed-arched wooden casement and a ribbed door are present on the west side, the latter framed by a flat, bracketed hood. The inner doorway of the west side is a 12th-century round-headed arch of three orders—plain, a fat roll, and chevrons—springing from square moulded abaci. Single shafts flank the arch, each with a scalloped cushion capital and moulded base.

The nave has rounded kneelers, and two 19th-century south windows designed in an early 15th-century style. The south porch dates to 1910 and is pebbledashed with a plain tile roof, featuring a moulded 2-centred arched outer doorway. The inner doorway is a 12th-century design, similar to the west doorway, but with rows of small nailheads visible within the base moulding. The chancel is of the 12th century and may have been rebuilt in 1821, containing single chamfered lancet-type windows to the north and south, and a broader light to the east. A semi-octagonal north-east vestry, added in 1910, is not included in the listing.

The north elevation of the nave, dating to 1821, has a low plinth and rendered stack to the east. Two 19th-century windows, designed in an early 15th-century style, are present, along with two 19th-century west windows to the north of the tower. The interior features a broad, aisle-less nave, widened to the north in 1821. A 12th-century chancel arch is plain on the east side, and decorated with a fat roll and chevrons on the west, springing from square moulded abaci. Narrow tiles are laid in a herringbone pattern within archways of the south and west doorways. The nave roof is of 1821, consisting of five canted sections with three queen-post trusses. The chancel roof incorporates common rafters, collars, and re-used older ashlar pieces. Fittings include a broad, plain, chamfered pointed-arched aumbry and a hollow-chamfered opening, possibly a sedile. Both have roll chamfer-stops, and the "sedile" contains key-pattern wall-paintings with traces of superimposed patterning. A medieval or 17th-century font has a circular bowl, octagonal shaft with a fat roll to the base, a short cylinder with fins, and a rectangular plinth, all displaying pronounced vertical tooling. A gallery from 1821 spans the west end on five rectangular Doric columns, with fielded panels and splat balusters to the staircase in the southwest corner. Royal Arms from 1778 are displayed on the north wall of the nave. Monuments include a wall tablet on the south wall of the nave to Captain Timothy Bedingfeild and his wife, dating to 1693 and 1714 respectively; it is constructed of black and white marble on a moulded plinth, with consoles, and a moulded cornice surmounted by an emblem.