Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with a north aisle rebuilt in the late 18th century and restored in 1890 by Micklethwaite and Somers Clarke. It is constructed from rendered limestone rubble and limestone ashlar, with a plain-tile roof. The building comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle, and vestry, along with a west tower and a south porch.

The chancel features a Tudor-arched three-light east window with ogee tracery, and two further 15th-century windows to the south, one four-centred and the other pointed segmental. The nave has a square-headed 14th-century window and a single-light ogee-headed window. The timber-framed south porch, possibly dating to the 14th century, was repaired in 1589 and shelters a shouldered doorway with a Romanesque mass dial and an old studded plank door. The 14th-century west tower has a two-light west window with reticulated tracery, ogee-headed belfry openings, and becomes octagonal near the top with large corbels. The north aisle has ogee-headed windows of two and three lights.

Inside, the chancel contains an elaborate cusped 15th-century piscina and sedilia formed from extensions of the window recesses. A 15th-century window opens into the north aisle. The nave has a simple four-bay north arcade from 1890. Earlier roofs have 19th-century boarding, while the north aisle roof has braced collar trusses. A plastered tympanum above the chancel step displays a hatchment. Notable fittings include a fine Jacobean oak pulpit with double-arched carved panels and a canopy with pendants. A two-light window of 1902, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, is located in the nave. A large painting by Pompeo Battoni, after Guido Reni's "The Annunciation", housed within a Gothick niche at the east end of the north aisle, was originally in the Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and given in 1794 by Sir Christopher Willoughby. Monuments include a brass inscription and shield commemorating John Danvers (died 1616), and a large Baroque wall monument to Anna Pollard (died 1701), featuring barley-twist columns, Corinthian capitals, a swan-neck pediment with cherubs, and a cartouche of arms. Two late 18th-century Gothick wall tablets were erected by Sir Christopher Willoughby. The sanctuary floor has various 17th and 18th-century ledger stones.