Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church that dates back to the Norman period and the 13th century, with significant restoration work completed in 1866. It is constructed from flint with stone dressings and features a plain-tile roof. The nave and south porch, added in 1866, are designed in the Early English style. The chancel is Norman, and it has a projecting 13th-century south aisle, both of which were restored in 1866.

The nave includes a double bell-cote on the roof at the east end. The south porch features a wooden screen set on a flint base, with cusped, low-sweeping bargeboards and an arched doorhead that has a small moulded crown-post on a crenellated beam above. The south aisle of the chancel has a gabled roof. There are three single lancets that have been repaired externally, with one located in the west end and two in the south wall. The east wall contains a pair of lancets, and there are 19th-century buttresses supporting the structure. The chancel roof is lower and less steeply pitched than that of the aisle and the nave, and it features a triple lancet at the east end, which has also been restored externally. The north wall of the chancel has four single lancets; three are aligned and unrestored, while one is much smaller, presumably older, and has been restored at a lower level between the two western lancets.

Inside, the chancel has a two-bay south arcade supported by a single circular central chalk pier with roll moulding at the top. The arches are of two orders with plain chamfers that spring from corbels on the plain end piers. The north lancet in the east wall of the south chapel retains an original corbelled impost with traces of waterleaf decoration. The capital between the north and south lancets features a stepped base topped with a roll. The roof is of 19th-century scissor-braced construction, complete with collars, ashlar pieces, projecting moulded sole-plates, and a cornice. There is a fragment of wall-painting above the lancets in the east end of the south aisle, and along the south wall of the south aisle, there are traces of a foliated frieze in red ochre with vertical lines below, possibly indicating the start of a key design.