Church Of St Katherine

The Church of St Katherine is a Grade II* listed building constructed in 1762 for Charles Peers. It features rendered walls with limestone dressings and an old plain-tile roof. The church has a rectangular plan with an eastern projection and a western turret. The walls are accented with chamfered quoins and a stone cornice, while the gable parapets are adorned with large stone urns that have gadrooned covers and festooned sides. On the south side, there are four leaded arched windows with projecting keyblocks. The shallow projection to the east has a semi-circular parapet.

The entrance front includes double-leaf panelled doors framed by a wooden architrave and cornice, along with a square wooden clock turret that rises above two small scrolls at the gable's termination. The lower stage of the turret features rusticated quoins and a large painted clock face, while the open upper stage has keyblock arches and clasping pilasters that support a dentil cornice and a pointed concave roof. The eastern gable is capped by a lead urn.

Inside, the roof is designed with a shallow elliptical plaster vault, and the south windows are flanked by pilasters on consoles that support a dentil cornice. This arrangement is mirrored on the north side with blind windows. The east wall contains a shallow segmental-arched recess. The 18th-century fittings are largely intact and include a fine 17th-century pulpit with heavily-carved arched panels. The oak panelling in the sanctuary recess frames the Creed, Decalogue, and other texts, decorated with carved festoons and Rococo details beneath a plain segmental pediment. The turned communion rails enclose the carved 18th-century altar table on three sides and extend westward to meet the high panelled box pews. A western gallery is supported by wooden Tuscan columns. The church also houses numerous wall monuments from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries dedicated to members of the Peers family, who owned Chiselhampton House. The designer may have been Samuel Dowbiggin of London, who was also responsible for the house.