Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a building of group value, dating back to the 12th century, with a chancel from the 13th century, and undergoing restoration and alterations in 1874. The structure is built of coursed rubble limestone with dressed quoins, and has stone slate roofs. It consists of a west tower, a nave with a north porch, and a chancel.

The low, broad west tower has a 19th-century roof with coped gables and a small 19th-century chimney. The west wall retains a late 12th-century cusped lancet window with a hood mould, alongside a bell-chamber opening consisting of two semi-circular headed lights separated by an impost block, potentially also from the 12th century. The nave has a 12th-century arched slit window on the north wall, and restored 12th-century north and south doorways, both featuring plain semi-circular tympana within raised stone surrounds. A scratch dial is present on the south doorway. The south wall of the nave is punctuated by two bays of 19th-century windows – the left in Decorated style with two traceried lights, and the right in Early English style with a group of three lancets. The gabled north porch, possibly dating to the 13th-14th centuries, features a moulded two-centred arch and internal stone benches. The chancel has a single bay of lancet windows in hollow-chamfered surrounds, a pair of similar lancets under a single dripmould to the east, and a small lowside window to the south, with a south door set within a Caernarvon arch.

Inside, the church showcases a late 12th-century pointed tower arch of two unmoulded orders, with impost blocks and a chamfered plinth. The tower side of the arch has chamfered reveals to recesses with traces of zig-zag ornament at the impost level. The nave has a new roof from the 19th century, set at an altered pitch. A small, semi-circular and unmoulded 12th-century chancel arch, with imposts and ashlar jambs, is flanked by rectangular squints of a later date. The chancel features hollow-chamfered rere-arches to the windows, a moulded piscina with a trefoil head, and a 19th-century roof. The church contains a 12th-century tub font with a panelled base and a 17th-century carved wooden lid, along with late 19th-century stained glass, 19th- and 20th-century pews, a lectern and pulpit. Several 17th- and 18th-century marble wall tablets are also present, commemorating members of the Goodenough family, with inscriptions, round panels, carved foliage spandrels, and one signed by Westmacott, London. Additional tablets relating to the Goodenough family date from the 19th and 20th centuries.