Church Of St Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with substantial rebuilding in 1830 and a restoration in 1882 for J.F. Penyston of Cornwell Manor. The church is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with stone slate roofs, stepped coped verges, and 19th-century foliated crosses to the gables. It comprises a nave and chancel, with a bellcote at their junction, a south porch, and a north vestry.

The south side of the nave features a 15th-century square-headed two-light window with cusped panel tracery and decorative head-stops to the left of the porch, and a similar window with plain label-stops to the right. A gabled porch, likely from the late 16th or early 17th century, has a moulded segmental-headed outer arch with a hoodmould and a scratch-dial above inscribed "FUGIT=HORA". A 19th-century three-light segmental-pointed chamfered mullion window is to the west side. The west wall has a 19th-century two-light Decorated-style window. The north side includes 19th-century broad cinquefoil-headed lancets and a gabled vestry with a matching window to the west. An infilled segmental-headed arch above ground level to the left of the window bears the inscription "VAULT FULL/1873". A plain gabled bellcote tops the east gable end. The chancel's south side has a 15th-century square cinquefoil-headed light to the west and a window similar to those in the nave’s south wall to the east, with a segmental-pointed head on the east window. The north side has a projection for an organ chamber.

Inside, the round-headed 12th-century south doorway has a single-chamfered inner order and a roll-moulded outer order with a hoodmould. A datestone above the outer doorway of the porch reads “REROOFED/AND RESTORED/1882. J.F.P.” (Penyston). The nave has a restored 19th-century trussed rafter roof supported by three wooden chandeliers, likely dating from the 1920s, and four contemporary wall sconces. A 12th-century round-headed doorway to the north, now leading to the vestry, is recessed on the south and features a semi-circular lintel tympanum to the north. A transitional chancel arch incorporates two pointed, unchamfered orders, with the inner order supported on half-conical corbelled responds featuring scalloped capitals and an impost band that terminates in scrolls on the east side. The chancel also has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof. An image bracket is set in a short column in the east jamb of the nave's south-east window. The east window incorporates blank shields to the hollow jambs and apex. A 13th-century twelve-sided font has a moulded panel on each side, a square plinth with carved heads to the chamfered corners, and a square chamfered base. A Perpendicular-style stone pulpit with blind tracery and ringed shafts is likely 19th century. 19th-century benches are in the nave, and a panelled wood reredos is in the chancel, along with a segmental-pointed aumbry on the north side. Stained glass from 1876 is in the east window. Numerous 18th and 19th-century wall tablets and memorials commemorate members of the Penyston family throughout the nave and chancel.